“Do you like vaginas?”
The host of Naked Attraction—a new British reality series on Max (formerly HBO Max)—puts the question earnestly to a male contestant as the camera pans past six anonymous sets of labia in extreme close-up.
With scripted television still on pause in the wake of the Hollywood writers strike, this is what we’re left with. Reality dating shows. And they’re surprisingly fascinating.
In Naked Attraction, all participants are scrutinized in a state of full frontal nudity before they even learn each other’s names. And on ABC’s The Golden Bachelor, which premiered last week, a house full of female senior citizens compete for the heart of a 71-year-old man named Gerry, a handsome widower who still gets choked up when he talks about the wife he loved and lost.
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