Netflix’s Age of Attraction is an Oedipus complex disguised as a dating show
Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Oh, how I’d love to be a fly-on-the-wall at Netflix HQ. More specifically, I’d like to be in the room where producers think up new concepts for its maddening dating multiverse, which, in the past five years, has pumped out dozens of formulaic social experiments featuring conventionally hot people all disenchanted with the modern dating landscape. There’s been Love Is Blind — where singles date through a wall and get engaged sight unseen — its horny sibling Too Hot To Handle, Ultimatum: Marry or Move On (about couples who definitely shouldn’t be together), and the all-star series Perfect Match, a repurposing of multiverse alumni to date, again and again. “Whatever next?” I hear you ask. Well, Netflix’s latest riff on the theme is Age …
