Series with a vision for blind dates

Love, If You Dare, a recent documentary, adopts a different approach.

It takes patience and the ability to overcome awkwardness to finish each hourlong episode, but if you persist, you will be rewarded as it skillfully navigates the unscripted, often uneasy, yet undeniably human moments that shape our connections with others by documenting blind dates like the one outlined above.

Since 60 episodes were released on the video-sharing platform Youku recently, snippets from the show have gone viral on short-video platforms, racking up hundreds of millions of views and triggering fierce debates.

Many viewers have been enticed to watch the show as it gives a real-world peek into the messy and mundane scenes of the blind date, instead of spinning romantic fantasies or stirring up scripted conflicts like other dating-related shows. It has gained a score of 7.9 out of 10 on the review site Douban.