‘Down for Love’ Will Restore Your Faith in Dating Shows

Netflix might crank out some of TV’s most diabolical social experiments (looking at you, The Ultimatum and Love Is Blind!) but with its new reality show Down for Love, the streaming giant proves it contains multitudes.

Unlike most modern dating shows, which revel in making their participants as uncomfortable as possible for our entertainment, Down for Love is a gentler, more organic form of exploration. Based in gorgeous New Zealand, the series follows several young daters with Down syndrome as they search for love. The five-episode series originally aired last year in New Zealand and made its debut on Netflix Aug. 11.

Down for Love, which was produced in consultation with New Zealand Down Syndrome Association, follows 10 people with Down syndrome who are searching for their soulmates. Among them are actress Libby Hunsdale, who recently starred in the 2021 film Poppy, award-winning photographer and swimming champ Carlos Biggemann, and 18-year-old model Lily-Mae Ivatt Oakley.

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