
It’s Christmas Eve. Tonight is the night, and while you are waiting for the food to cook or looking for a fun bonding activity with your family, why don’t you stream a show on your favorite streaming platform? Christmas is the perfect opportunity to watch reality shows like “Perfect Match.”
“Perfect Match,” watched by millions of viewers worldwide, is a love-themed reality series that features contestants from other Netflix reality shows pairing and going head-to-head against each other. The most compatible pairs will play matchmakers, breaking up other couples and sending them on dates with brand-new single people they invite to the villa.
But it’s a fairly new TV series, and things can get boring, unlike “The Bachelor” or “The Bachelorette,” which has already been running for ages. Are you looking for shows that offer the same thrill as “Perfect Match”? Here’s the list.
‘Indian Matchmaking’
See how relationships go from the perspective of Indian culture. It takes place in India, where Sima Taparia, the premier matchmaker in Mumbai, helps her clients find their future spouses. Taparia has a vast network of bachelors and bachelorettes where she can pool your perfect match, even interviewing relatives and studying preferences. Indian culture is all about arranged marriage systems, well, most of the time, so you also get a peek at what happens here.
‘Love Is Blind’
Don’t think PVP Live is sharing a quote because while it is a quote, “Love is Blind” is the name of another reality dating show. It takes inspiration from “Big Brother” in such a way that the singles and searchers are dropped inside “pods,” allowing them to build connections emotionally through a wall initially rather than making advances to the other based on looks.
After a couple of days in the pods, those who have found matches can propose, meet the person for the first time and let them wear a ring on their finger. Then, they go on honeymoons and travel to tropical locations. Hence, the concept of “love is blind.”
‘Ainori Love Wagon: Asian Journey’
Leading on the list of Entertainment Weekly, “Ainori Love Wagon: Asian Journey” is the spinoff of the long-running Japanese dating show from the 1990s, where a group of men and women travel around Asia. Of course, they first meet each other as strangers, tasked with coupling up before the wagon loops back to Japan. It’s love and travel marrying each other here.
Plus, this show also incorporates elements from those BBC travel documentaries. It balances adventure and relationships. It’s a must-watch.
‘Dating Around’
This is historic because it is the first original dating series on Netflix. It is a breath of fresh air because there are no elements of competition but solely elements of surprise. It is the perfect show to binge-watch, especially if you are in a hurry or on Christmas Eve when things can get busy while waiting for the strike of midnight. It also infuses documentary attributes.
‘Single’s Inferno’
Last but not least is “Single’s Inferno,” a show that takes its cue from the popular poetry by the Italian poet and writer Dante Alighieri. Rather, it’s not literal hell, but Inferno Island, where five single men and women are dropped without access to basic necessities like power or Wi-Fi. They must forge relationships, but the twist is that they cannot disclose what they do in life, nor their age, to their partners until they make it to “paradise.” It may sound like “Survivor,” but this is creatively thought of. Where’s Purgatorio?