Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentDating shows have always been a guilty pleasure. Ever since the ’60s with “The Dating Game” and “The Newlywed Game,” audiences have been hooked.
But in the modern viewing era, only one franchise has stuck in viewers’ hearts. “The Bachelor” debuted in 2002, and nearly two decades later, no other show has managed to break through.
But almost 20 years after the ABC franchise premiered, romantic reality shows are again having a moment. Now, in our shelter-at-home world, audiences have found a trio of Netflix shows: the social experiment series “The Circle”; “Love Is Blind,” viewed in more than 30 million households in its first two months; and the raunchier “Too Hot to Handle,” which challenges horny.
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