![]() ![]() The costumes of Sexy Beasts-elastic, protruding, disguising every feature of the wearers’ faces save for their teeth and eyeballs-work primarily to be amusing. Read: Love Is Blind was the ultimate reality-TV paradoxĬall it camp-ouflage. “So in this show, everyone looks as weird as possible.” “When it comes to dating, we all go for looks first,” each episode’s introductory voice-over intones. But Sexy Beasts, whose second season premiered this month, has a distinctly absurdist twist. ![]() The series is a new entry in an old genre that includes The Dating Game and Love Is Blind-a reality competition that, bemoaning dating’s superficiality, attempts to inject some corrective realness into its manufactured courtships. Welcome to Sexy Beasts, the Netflix dating show that takes the concept of the “blind date” and shrouds it in layers of latex. The two don’t find much else to agree on (the demon will soon break things off with the sculpture), but modeling? This, they have in common. “Ooh, I did a bit of modeling myself!” her flint-skinned date replies. “I moved to New York to pursue modeling,” the devil says, her horns protruding from the top of her head, her cherry-red cheeks stretching with her mouth as she smiles. The two sip their drinks and make stilted conversation. At a posh bar somewhere in the U.K., a devil is on a date with a statue.
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