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To be fair: The show isn’t as grotesque as it first seems.
The upcoming Netflix dating series, Dated and Related, raised eyebrows into the next level of the stratosphere when the platform announced *that* title. Listen, we’ve proven suckers for all of Netflix’s dating gimmicks: fall in love without ever seeing your partner; go on dates while you’re wearing prosthetics to look like monsters; vacation with a bevy of hot singles but—if it’s even humanly possible!—don’t have sex. Yet is this new series’ title suggesting…incest?!
A trailer released Thursday was clarifying, but it still proclaimed that Dated and Related should be “the most awkward dating show in history.” The narrator takes such glee in that superlative. Having now watched the footage, I’m not so sure this is a good thing.