Sexy Beasts: What the Must Watch reviewers think

Wednesday 21 July 2021, 11:57

Every week, the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows.

This week Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell share their thoughts on Sexy Beasts on Netflix.

In the streaming platform’s latest dating show, singletons are disguised with prosthetics as they meet potential partners.

Netflix

Hayley says: "The time for this show has long passed"

"It’s not a new idea, this was originally a BBC Three show back in 2014. I actually watched it back then because it was nuts, but you know how sometimes a spontaneous party is more fun than a planned one? This feels like that to me.

"The original was awful but watchable not because it was good but because it was terrible. It was awkward in the same way that Naked Attraction was awkward. This Netflix series feels slightly too glossy, too American, the slow motion reveals at the end are a bit too much like The Bachelor. Possibly all of this is just a bit exaggerated to me because as much as I love Rob Delaney, with an American voiceover it feels like a different show compared to Susan Calman's Scottish accent which was sort of ramping up the absurdity of the whole thing.

"Also, when it came out in 2014 it was unusual. They were making people wear prosthetic masks and that wasn’t a thing on loads of TV shows like it is now. Now we’ve got The Masked Singer, we’ve got the Masked Dancer, they’re probably pulling out nouns from a hat to try and figure out what the new show is going to be. And while I am very much in favour of wearing masks in a shopping centre, I’m so bored of seeing them on TV.

Also, I just don’t care about people wearing silly outfits. We all look ridiculous now: we’re all wearing our outfits that we bought in lockdown on the internet, we’re all trying to do our makeup but we’ve forgotten how and we just look absurd anyway. So the time for this show has long passed."

Netflix

Scott says: "There is no depth to this show whatsoever"

"According to this show we judge people solely on their looks, so they have dressed people up as giraffes and leopards so that they judge each other solely on personality. What is the point of this? We know that personality and chemistry is important! Dating is tedious. Why are you making it worse?

"There is no depth to this show whatsoever. Once they have put prosthetics and make-up on them, they can't seem to work out what to do with them, so they take them to a life drawing class, or make them drive a 4x4. Each episode barely goes over twenty minutes. It feels that this show was entirely generated to create a bit of a buzz on the internet, create some memes, rather than make a decent television programme.

"It doesn’t even make sense. They date in London but half the people who take part live in America, so if they do like each other they are forced into a long distance relationship. What is the point?!"