Netflix announces brand new baby boomer dating show
By Lacey Womack
Netflix has really made a name for itself in recent years in the world of reality TV shows, especially dating-focused shows. With hit series like Love Is Blind and Too Hot To Handle, the streaming service has proven that they know how to help people find love and that they know how to keep viewers hooked.
Now, following the popularity of The Golden Bachelorette, Netflix has announced an upcoming dating reality show that follows six single baby boomers as they seek connection and love in the digital age. The contestants on the show range from widowed to divorced to long-time singles and will feature help from Logan Ury, a behavioral scientist and author of the book How Not To Die Alone, to learn their way around modern dating culture.
According to the official summary released by Netflix, Ury will be there to help the singles "navigate a whole new dating world and its different rules and online etiquette (where the eggplant emoji maybe doesn’t mean what they think it does)."
Michelle Obama is an executive producer on the series in which the mature singles are sent on blind dates to form connection with the prospective partners that they might share the next chapter of their lives with. The show, which features singles based in the Atlanta area, features six singles ranging in ages from 57 to 71.
The trailer shows the singles opening up and getting vulnerable about what they think is holding them back from finding love and although it has humorous moments, including one of the singles sharing the fates of her two late husbands with a lighthearted laugh about whether or not her date wants to be with her, it also features heartfelt scenes in which the singles face their own issues and things they need to work through in order to be ready to love again.
"I'm gonna fall in love. I just sense it," Suzanne, one of the six singles profiled in the series, announces in the trailer.
The Later Daters comes to Netflix on November 29. According to Netflix, all eight episodes of the first season will be released on the streaming service at once on that date, meaning that viewers can't binge the entire journey that these senior singles are on.