[Editor’s note: The following article includes spoilers for Netflix Japan’s “Badly in Love”]
First encounters on Japanese dating shows usually drip with polite discomfort. Strangers engineered together by ambitious programming exchange hellos, fumble through small talk and strain to find common ground — ideally something harmless enough to bond over.
This is not how “Badly in Love,” Netflix Japan’s newest reality-dating experiment, begins.
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