![]() ![]() Each “tribe” receives two blades, two survival tools of their choice, a pot, a fire-starter, and a “how-to survival guide” featuring maps of the island, raft-building instructions, and other tips and tricks. From there, they go through their survival packs, which are considerably more useful than those of their franchise counterparts. ![]() ![]() After tossing their clothes in the Filipino wilderness - don’t worry: even though the show airs on streaming, rather than basic cable, private parts are still blurred - the singles meet up with their assigned partner and attempt to surreptitiously check each other out (one guy gets a hard-on when he meets his partner, because of course he does). A show titled Naked and Afraid of Love promises three distinct things, but here, while we have an overabundance of nudity, there's not nearly enough fear or romance.įrom the outset, Naked and Afraid of Love is clear that its contestants aren’t getting the full Naked and Afraid treatment. Rather than honor its “man versus nature” roots or go full Bachelor in Paradise, the new series tries to straddle the line between a survival show and a dating show, rendering it unsuccessful on both fronts. It’s an interesting social experiment, to be sure - what happens when our modern comforts are stripped away and we’re forced to rely on our most primal instincts - but Naked and Afraid of Love doesn’t quite make it beyond its premise. With no food, water or clothes readily available, the contestants are rendered physically and emotionally vulnerable, a state that the show would have us believe will lead to deeper emotional connections. A spinoff of the popular survival franchise Naked and Afraid, the new Discovery+ series asks eight men and eight women to bare all as they attempt to find lasting love on a remote island in the Philippines. Much like its stripped-down singles, Naked and Afraid of Love is unable to hide its true self. ![]()
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