'Labor of Love' Premiere Recap: Fox Sperm Donor Reality Show - TVLine

In a moment, we’ll want to hear what you thought about Kristy and her passel of potential papas.

As the premiere kicks off, we meet Kristy, a Chicago woman who got married at 37 but filed for divorce six months later?

But she’s prepared to become a mom on her own, and a visit with her reproductive specialist — who promises her that her fertility is “better than your chronological age” — lets us know that that’s still a possibility.

Our girl explains that dating is hard, because men either think she’s too old to have children or doesn’t want them at all — otherwise, wouldn’t she have had them by now.

Anywhooo, Kristin tells Kristy to get ready, because she’s about to meet all the guys who’ve signed up to be sires?

When Kristy arrives, all of the guys want time with her, but only a few of them get it before Kristin summons them all to the driveway.

“I did not see this coming, no pun intended,” Matt says, and HEY MATT.

I’m going to skip over the part where Kristin asks the guys whether they’ve toggled their own joysticks lately — in the name of science, of course, because sperm collection apparently works best when there’s a bit of a build-up — and only about half of them raise their hands!

“Wish me luck, sweetheart,” he says to Kristy on his way in, giving her a kiss on the cheek.

“The fact that all of these guys were willing to do this test in front of me?

I’m pretty convinced they’re here for the right reasons,” Kristy says later.

So do the guys.

The next morning, a hungover Jason and Stewart discuss his overdoing it the previous night (or maybe nights? the editing is confusing here)

“Maybe I’m not comfortable with who I am,” Jason says in an interview, which is a LOT of introspection for someone whose main objective was pounding the brewskis not 24 hours prior

At the end of the evening, Kristy says the guys who were clear about what they wanted — like Stewart, Trent and Matt — were the most impressive

The men watch on a screen in their house as Kristy finalizes her decision on a screen in hers: Stewart, Tali, Phillip and Jason wind up in the We Need to Talk Box, which means one of them is going home

Ultimately, Kristy tells Phillip that they’re not “on the same timeline” and bids him farewell

She lets Stewart know that she appreciates him, and essentially that putting him into the We Need to Talk box was a fakeout: She likes him a lot

And she lets Jason explain that his nerves got to him that first night, but he hasn’t had a drink since, so she says OK and sends him back to the house with the other guys… where he downs a flute of sparkling wine like he’s being timed