I'm Claire Fallon and I'm Emma Gray and this is Love to See It, an obsessively detailed

recap podcast about reality dating shows like The Bachelor and other pop culture that makes us laugh, cry, and curse the patriarchy.

We can't live with these shows and we can't live without them, but we can break down every juicy moment and unpack all the weird messages these shows send us about love, sex, and dating.

Welcome to this bonus episode of Love to See It, Channel Surfing Edition, where we venture away from ABC and examine a non-bachelored dating show as a palette cleanser.

A little treat. Today we're diving into the second batch of perfect match episodes. Netflix's mega crossover romance reality show. I can only call it an event.

Yeah, we've got a lot happening in these episodes. It's four episodes. Some of them are over an hour of uncut content.

It's really like recapping two to three weeks of The Bachelor all the same time. And this week we have the collapse of some seemingly strong relationships, our first queer pairing on the show.

And still not a single man good enough for our fave and as who deserves so much better than to be anywhere near this hot mass.

Yeah, and as deserves the world, I trust that she will go on and prosper outside of this show as she seems to be doing per her Instagram, which yes, I have stocked because I love her.

Yeah, let's let's get into it because as you said, we have a lot of material to cover. Let's start with episode five Francesca and Damien are going on a date as our in as and Bartis and Francesca and Damien haven't spoken apparently since they stormed since she stormed out of the love is blind reunion that he took her to under the auspices that he was no longer involved with his acts from the show GG.

But then it turned out that he still sort of was and there was an awkward confrontation.

I am really just like wow Francesca and Damien are pros. They have let this entire relationship play out on camera. They're like, why would we reach out to each other and try to smooth this over when we could wait until we're going on a surprise blind date on the perfect match Netflix.

Yeah, why why not just wait for the cameras. They why waste good content in private clear half of this show is just people being like we could get coffee and talk about this or we could wait until we're maybe cast on the same mega dating show in a few months.

It's all I mean, it's basically all the same to us. It's like it's like one of us waiting to run into our acts of like a wedding or something exactly.

But Damien is like, look, I know you all thought I was a narcissistic gaslighting asshole, but I'm here to change that image by making out with Francesca and assuring everyone that she was not a home record.

Yeah, he's ready to like take some accountability. He's like, I know I earn this reputation. I know that I put Francesca in this terrible position.

I can't even make it. I love it. I mean, the way you look at it, I know I get my eye on her look like a home record. I made it seem like we were hook.

We were never hooking up you guys, she is pure. I said driven snow and it's my fault. And I do think this was the correct approach. Like if you're going to try to earn your reputation back Damien.

You got to you got to take ownership of everything that went down to clear that it was your fault.

put in the middle of it. So I do commend Damien for this approach. No gold stars, but well done,

sir. Meanwhile, Aenez and Bartis are heading off on a blind date. And Aenez is still like, wow,

maybe this guy could be it. I have watched Bartis on television and I don't have high hopes.

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