This isn’t a quest to find necessarily the love of your life, who you’re going to marry.
“And that’s really what we wanted to capture. “Dating has turned into a bit of a kaleidoscope of personalities, faces, experiences,” Culvenor said. And the series, appropriately enough, debuts on February 14. The idea is to mimic a dating environment characterized by a constant search for the next best thing, enabled by an ever-expanding roster of apps. In the end, the main dater shows up for a second encounter-with just one of their matches. Their format is simple: each episode runs for about 25 minutes and follows an eligible bachelor/ette on five blind dates. Instead, Culvenor and fellow executive producers Paul Franklin and Alycia Rossiter set out to capture an authentic snapshot of modern dating.
And although executive producer Chris Culvenor never directly mentioned The Bachelor by name during a recent interview, there was little question which program he was referring to when he said that in this new show, he and his fellow E.P.s “didn’t just want to retread a lot of the things that, let’s call them traditional or older dating shows, tend to do.” There are no heaps of roses no tightly grasped Champagne flutes no sequined gowns. Netflix’s new dating series, Dating Around, does not take place in a mansion.
