![]() (Thomas Astruc shows Zoé and Mylène how to use the swords.) He's overseeing this group of students who are volunteering their own vacation time to produce a real-life movie. “If I’m not good enough for you or anyone else, it is what it is.” It’s the perfect message for Perfect Match itself, a show that doesn’t care if you or anyone else thinks it’s anything but lazy, frothy fun.Clara: Under the initiative of the art teacher, Jean-Pierre Monlataing, one of Françoise Dupont school's alumni, Thomas Astruc, who's become a successful film director, is participating in an ambitious project. “I am who I am,” Sasso tells Snow when she informs him she’s decided to match up with the vain and scheming Chase instead of him. (“There are literally girls who think he’s famous!,” Snow tells another contestant of Sasso’s “groupies,” a sentiment that parallels the incredulity of viewers at home.) The on-again, off-again relationship between Snow and Sasso is the surprisingly sweet motor that keeps the first few episodes of Perfect Match running. Though Sasso was known more for his cuddly Italian charm than his sex appeal on The Circle, it’s made clear in the first episode that prior to arriving at the mansion, Sasso had had sex with two contestants: Farago and Kariselle Snow, the motormouthed aspiring musician on Sexy Beasts. The most charming and compelling, if not baffling, part of Perfect Match is the surprising sex appeal of Joey Sasso, the winner of Season One of The Circle who somehow, improbably, has ended up as the Pete Davidson of the Netflix reality show universe. Hannah Gadsby Talks ‘Queer Joy’ and Calling Out Netflix But essentially, what I can cobble together is this: a group of the most terminally horny and clout-hungry cast members from some of your favorite brain-dead Netflix shows (including Francesca and Georgia from Too Hot to Handle, Shayne and Damian from Love Is Blind, Zay from The Ultimatum, Joey and Nick from The Circle, Kariselle from Sexy Beasts, and Dom from The Mole) are assembled together in a comically oversized mansion to pair up into couples. There is basically no point in telling you the premise of the show, as it is virtually impossible to follow and will make you feel like you’re on edibles for the first two episodes. Hosted by perennial Netflix zaddy Nick Lachey, who does as good a job as he can telegraphing avuncular wisdom whilst wearing a Tommy Bahama shirt, Perfect Match is perhaps Netflix’s least thoughtful reality dating show, and that is saying something. A Netflix reality show comprised of cast members from former Netflix reality shows, it is the only TV show that has the bravery to ask: what if the winner of the first season of The Circle and the panda girl from the furry dating show were hooking up and furthermore, what if people maintained enough real estate in their brains to remember who these two individuals were, and have an emotional investment in them? Perfect Match, Netflix’s new dating show, is like Circus of the Stars - except for horny F-listers. ![]() It was like the ultimate crossover episode. It gave fans a thrill to see all of these beloved TV stars assembled in a different context, usually doing minor acrobatic tricks or pretending to train Pekinese dogs. The show featured a mélange of early ‘90s network TV stars, from Alfonso Ribeiro to Bronson Pinchot to Six from Blossom. Back in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, there was a CBS show called Circus of the Stars.
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