A mini online dating TV roundup

Today is the day my Apple Watch is supposed to get delivered! I can’t WAIT to make you all some videos about how to turn off or better manage annoying dating app notifications. But since it’s not here yet, we’ll have to settle for this other blog post instead. 🙂 Burger King’s recent Chicken Fries commercial caught my attention. Have you …

Online dating in HBO’s “Looking”

Have you guys watched Looking on HBO yet? The show follows the lives of a group of gay guy pals in San Francisco. Like many highbrown TV junkies, fans of hot men, and relationship industry folks, I tuned in very eagerly for the pilot on Sunday evening. And of course, I laser-focused on the aspects of the show that dealt with …

Why you shouldn’t pay for eHarmony Plus

Ever since I’ve started seeing trailers for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, I’ve also seen a plethora of links about eHarmony’s new Plus service. This is a new offering in which you pay an expert $5,000 to be your personal online dating… surrogate. They call it a ‘matchmaking professional,’ but in many ways, it’s also a surrogate. Or an …

Algorithms can’t predict true compatibility

Have you guys seen this new Amazon Originals thing, where they’re creating (or just buying the rights to) various potential TV projects? It’s kind of interesting. I just watched a bunch of the pilots over the weekend, and one of them in particular stuck out to me. Not because it was super good, no—the super good one is Those Who …

Thoughts on MTV’s Catfish

I didn’t even know about Catfish (the show) until I saw the SNL parody. Catfish feels like it’s stuck in 1999, back when the Internet was younger, our technology was simpler, and it was much harder to figure out a complete picture of a stranger  you met online. In 2013, it feels like a retro joke. (Even the pretend-retro logo seems …