A Strikingly Honest Reality Show About Sex, Money, and Health
On Netflix’s Love Village, sex is not salacious or scandalous; it’s simply part of a well-lived life.
At first glance, the premise of Love Village (or Ai no Sato in Japanese) is standard reality-TV fodder: Four women and four men inhabit a house together, hoping to find love among their cohort. A pair of hosts comment on the goings-on from a separate studio, as on , a Japanese reality show that followed six young strangers living together, and , a Korean dating show set on an island. But , the Japanese show that was released on Netflix last month, tacks a caveat onto its setup: All of its participants are at least 35 years old, and most of them are in their 40s to 60s. This changes the dynamic completely.
