A beaver, a leopard, a zombie and an elf walk into a bar. What sounds like the beginning of a joke is actually the new Netflix dating show Sexy beasts. “Actually, it wasn’t as crazy as you’d think,” says the woman in the leopard mask after her date with the beaver. With that she described the format well.
Sexy beasts is the streaming service’s next foray into the dating world. Recently, Netflix has taken a liking to pairing – and not doing it: Bei Hands off! the participants were not allowed to touch each other Love is blind not see. Also at Sexy beasts the faces of the singles remain hidden. At least their real ones. They wear high-quality Hollywood masks that they are only allowed to take off when the other person decides for or against them. The Masked Singer sends greetings.
“It looks like a sick, wacky, dystopian horror movie”
The trailer too Sexy beasts triggered a hype on social networks three weeks ago. No video on the streaming provider’s YouTube channel has had that many clicks since then. “It looks like a sick, wacky, dystopian horror movie,” commented one user. The foretaste offered everything that spreads quickly online: bizarre pictures of people in bizarre costumes saying bizarre things. Or as they say on the net: meme gold.
In fact, the British production is far less spectacular than the trailer suggested. The episodes are so short, the individual dates so rushed that you get the impression that the show has something urgent to do. But it doesn’t. Also known from narrator Rob Delaney Catastrophe, his enchanting dramedy series from 2015, you would like to free every time he has to blow up the final decisions of Panda, Teufel and Co. in the “Sexy Beasts Mansion”.
Again, Netflix relies on a cast that corresponds to the current ideals of beauty
As Love is blind lets too Sexy beasts the opportunity to finally take blind dating seriously, to really ignore the appearance of singles. Because again Netflix relies on a cast that corresponds to the current ideals of beauty: muscles, make-up, flawless skin. It would be really innovative if you gave the opportunity to blindly get to know people whose looks really stand in the way. Last proved that there is another way the lesbian dating show Princess Charming.
Therefore, the initial question of whether you can fall in love with someone if you see “only the personality” makes no sense on several levels. On the one hand, the elaborately manufactured masks naturally only hide a small part of the body, the face. On the other hand, the costumes tell nothing about the participants, unlike, for example, in The Masked Singer. Student Archie is not the “Stone Man” because he is so hard to crack, but because the costume was apparently lying around.
Whether people watch the show for the romance or because they photograph the monsters and post the pictures on Twitter, Netflix won’t care. If you let a title run there for two minutes, it counts as respected.
Sexy Beasts, on Netflix