Reality TV: Surprising throw back to the past?"(Yilei Zhou)

In the aticle "Reality TV: Surprising Throwback to The Past", the writer want to mentions Lisa choose her husband through the reality TV show.
But in the 19th centry, marrige is not easy, like girl choose boy. it will consider how rich and level.there's something familiar about the fortune hunters, the status seekers, the thwarted loves, the meddling friends, the public displays, the comic manners, and the sharp competitiveness---all find their counterpart in Jane Austen and Edith Wharton. this one is talking about, when girls choose a boy, their falily will set up a tv show, and choose them, if they get marry, and finally, the boy will get 1 millin. But, in my opinion there are no real person, which is boys come from money.
Lisa wants to go to the TV show, becasue "A woman who is not married by her late 20s is dommed to be an Old Maid."and also in that situation and pruesure she must go.but in my opinion, she will not happy with her marriage. bacause that is not freedom.