17 Dating Shows to Sentinel After Dear Is Bullheaded

The pods are airtight, the infamous golden cups are empty, and some other season of Love Is Blind is in the books. The ii-month journey that followed a grouping of hopeful Chicago daters from small, insulated pods to vacations in United mexican states to wedding ceremonies officially culminated in a splashy, shocking March 4 reunion, and now there's a railroad train-wreck-shaped hole in your heart. Luckily, there's no shortage of dating shows that feature scheming singles, love triangles and squares, and beautiful people tearfully trying to detect their person. From Dearest Is Blind's international spinoffs to gems from the early aughts to lots and lots of Dearest Island, here's everything to watch next.

If this season had y'all agonized for more beloved stories à la Cameron and Lauren (and fewer contestants like this guy), Honey is Blind: Japan might be more your speed. The Japanese iteration of the sight-unseen love experiment is formatted similar the frothy, frequently stressful American show, but you'll notice much more earnest romance over drama. In that location's also a greater focus on the contestants every bit they build their relationships preengagement: It takes 5 episodes instead of two for the couples to get out the pods. Maybe information technology'southward all a thing of editing, but in any case, this one's definitely for the romantics. Motomi and Ryotaro forever.

Where to scout: Netflix

Married at First Sight bravely asks, What if ii eligible singles went on a blind appointment … to their own wedding ceremony? Every bit the name suggests, this show follows "expertly matched" couples that meet for the commencement time immediately before maxim "I do" — and documents their disastrous first few weeks of marriage as they get to know their new partners, move in together, and attempt to integrate their lives. In some ways, Married at Fight Sight is just Love is Blind if yous ditched the pods birthday. And eliminated the idea of choosing your partner. And the stakes weren't a cleaved date but a full-on divorce. Fun!

Where to sentry: Lifetime or Hulu

Love is Bullheaded is all about dating people without seeing them. Meanwhile, on Too Hot to Handle, you lot tin can look at all the beautiful, horny people around y'all — but you can't touch them. (At this charge per unit, we might take a Netflix dating show for each of the five senses past 2025.) If the daters can continue their hands to themselves, they become to split a massive cash prize, only anyone who steps out of line is publicly reprimanded by an Alexa-esque robot named Lana. If yous're looking for lasting couples, this show doesn't take Netflix's best success charge per unit, just you can't say it'south not entertaining.

Where to lookout man: Netflix

Similar the U.S. version, Love Is Bullheaded: Brazil focuses more on how the daters' relationships fare once they're outside the pods — and compared to Japan, there'south a lilliputian more drama than romance. If you can't await away from train-wreck pairings and secretly dearest a juicy breakup-at-the-chantry moment, this is definitely the international spinoff for you. But that's not to say the LIB experiment doesn't piece of work: There are some couples to root for and sweet moments amid all the mess.

Where to watch: Netflix

If you lot've ever wished for a dating show populated by contestants who aren't 20-somethings, HBO Max'southward latest foray into the world of reality TV might be your best bet. Hosted by Yvonne Orji of the HBO Cinematic Universe (Insecure; Momma, I Made It!), the show follows a group of single parents — and their college-age kids — equally they head to a desert retreat. One time there, the kids secretly set their parents upwards and "meddle" in their dates from behind the scenes. There's definitely a lot of humor here, too, as some of the rustier dads drone on to their dates and kids skeptically suss out their parents' new connections.

Where to watch: HBO Max

At this point, The Available is such a ubiquitous entity that it almost feels too redundant to include, but the show's summery, gratis-for-all spinoff Bachelor in Paradise is a perfect entry indicate for Love Is Blind fans hoping to tiptoe into the franchise. There are dearest triangles and love squares, in-fights and niggling feuds, and, of course, a reality-TV-ready beach resort backdrop. Still, maybe because of the sheer number of singles who hitting the beach every year, this show actually has a higher success charge per unit than The Available or The Bachelorette and even more drama — as well as, subsequently longtime host Chris Harrison left the show, guest hosts including Lance Bass and Lil Jon.

Where to sentinel: Hulu

We'd be remiss not to mention the show that is, in many ways, the modern dating-show blueprint. With American, British, and Australian iterations (just to proper noun a few), this is a not bad franchise to jump into if you have a lot of time and an insatiable, bottomless demand for footage of people flirting, kissing, and yelling at each other, often in thick British and Australian accents. Each season has more than 65 episodes, so if you're ready to enjoy the messiest summer holiday of your life, caput over to Hulu. Only get ready to turn on those subtitles.

Where to watch: Hulu

HBO Max'due south answer to Love Island — appropriately titled FBoy Island — has a pretty convoluted premise, so stick with me hither. A group of three women are challenged to observe a beau in a sea of self-proclaimed squeamish guys and cocky-proclaimed f-boys, and while anyone who would describe himself every bit either is probably a walking ruby-red flag, the labels really boil down to this: Half of the male contestants want to discover dear, and half want to make it to the terminate and win a $100,000 cash prize. This serial is full of twists and questions (similar, What happens if an f-boy develops feelings for a contestant?), merely it's endlessly watchable, and it was recently renewed for a forthcoming second season.

Where to watch: HBO Max

This breakout Korean dating bear witness isn't all that unlike from Too Hot to Handle or Honey Isle. If anything, it's more than unproblematic — there are merely 12 contestants, and in that location's no grand pot of cash — just until they pair upwardly, they are stuck in the sweltering, eponymous inferno, which sounds much steamier than it actually is. Along with winning the yard prize of love, of course, coupled-up contestants get to leave Single's Inferno for Paradise, a swanky hotel with mod plumbing, civilities, and ac.

Where to lookout man: Netflix

Compared to Love Is Bullheaded, The Available, and the genre's other biggest hits, this show offers a pretty realistic wait at what the casual-dating scene actually looks like. Well, fine, contestants are paired upward with attractive people handpicked and vetted by Netflix, just there's no immediate wedding ceremony or cash prize on the horizon and definitely no AI robot enforcing rigid rules. In each 25-minute episode, a contestant goes on five blind dates, then chooses just one person to see again. If you need a break from the anarchy of the Also Hot to Handle, Love Isle, et al., give this show a endeavour.

Where to lookout man: Netflix

This ane's a classic, but if you lot're a new convert to the world of dating shows, Flavor of Love is unmissable — I hateful, it brought us Tiffany Pollard. Enough said. The VH1 classic followed Flavour Flav's search for dearest (twice), and Pollard's spinoff, I Dearest New York, aimed to help her find the i (she eventually did).

Where to spotter: Hulu

Hear me out: A dating show, but it takes identify on a party bus. Ainori Love Wagon, Netflix's 2022 revival of a popular Japanese series from the early aughts, sees seven singles head on the journey of their lives across Asia. The goal? Enjoy an exciting, cross-continental holiday and try to observe dearest. Whenever a contestant falls for another passenger, they're given the choice to confess their feelings and travel back to Japan, hopefully with their new partner — but if it isn't a love match, they still have to caput back solo. After you've finished, cheque out Ainori Love Wagon: African Journeying. (New trip, new contestants, same pastel-pink bus.)

Where to scout: Netflix

Indian Matchmaking is more than of a docuseries than a dating show, but it'south highly entertaining (and coming back for a 2d season before long too!). The serial centers around master matchmaker Sima Taparia as she thoughtfully sets upward compatible singles across the U.S. and India, sometimes with difficult and fifty-fifty disastrous results. Although spousal relationship is each couple'south end goal, Indian Matchmaking is more about dating than annihilation else: the fretfulness, the excitement, the horror stories, the ghosting.

Where to picket: Netflix

Like Love Is Blind and Married at First Sight, 90 Day Fiancé follows newlyweds-to-exist equally they race to the altar in record time. But this evidence'south premise isn't just rooted in a reality-Goggle box experiment: In each couple, i half isn't an American citizen, and in order to live in the U.S., they must spend ninety days with their American partner before tying the knot. Needless to say, the stakes here are loftier, and you tin can grab upward with the couples that made it work (and the ones that didn't) in the show'south x-plus spinoffs.

Where to watch: Discovery+

It's kind of funny that the same genre that spawned Love Is Blind brought us Terrace Firm, a Real World–esque reality bear witness with drama so subtle and tame that one of the franchise's biggest, teariest moments revolved around stolen meat. Terrace House has been lauded for casting contestants you can really root for with conflicts that are actually (well, usually) resolved in a calm, mature way. Plus the show has a panel of commentators who share their opinions on all the house drama as it unfolds. Just imagine a season's worth of Vanessa Lachey'south thoughts on Shake.

Where to watch: Netflix

This South Korean reality show besides focuses on all the solar day-to-mean solar day conversations, flirtations, and interactions that go down in a business firm of bonny singles, and there'south also a panel of celebrity commentators who weigh in on the burgeoning relationships. Unlike Terrace Firm, though, Heart Signal is more of a classic dating prove: Every nighttime, the contestants send anonymous text letters to the housemates who've piqued their interest — and in a Love Is Blind–way twist, they can't confess their feelings face to face.

Where to scout: Viki

Temptation Island originally went off air in 2003, but U.s. revived the evidence in 2019. Participating couples split upwards and join houses full of hot singles to "examination their relationships," and yeah, it's every bit stressful every bit it sounds. If that's still non chaotic enough for you, though, you'll simply have to hang tight until the Lacheys' adjacent endeavor.

Where to watch: Peacock

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