To enjoy long-term success, a reality show needs to surprise, to delight, to reinvent and subvert its own formula as it goes. But to break out in the first place, it needs a compelling hook. “Sexy …
’s new dating series, has the latter part down, sort of. Each of its episodes tells the story of an individual who professes to want to build a relationship based on inner beauty. For that reason, both the protagonist and the three potential suitors from whom they’re choosing are kitted out with elaborate prosthetic makeup jobs that tend to distract the eye while not concealing the enviable bone structure beneath.
Rebooting each episode rather than following a season-long through line, “Sexy Beasts” isn’t trying to achieve precisely what “Love Is Blind” did, but it doesn’t even get close in terms of insight, novelty, or memorable characters. There’s no time in overstuffed episodes to really consider the oddity of dating at all, let alone to examine how folks might feel about dating under these circumstances, beyond the barest of pleasantries.
Which brings us to what some might consider the fundamental flaw of a show that is broken in plenty of other ways: While attractiveness is subjective, the cast generally seems drawn from a particularly eligible segment of the population.
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