Sexy Beasts review: New Netflix dating show is so sexy it hurts

There are too many beauties in this beastly dating show for Esther N McCarthy’s liking

The prosthetics are incredible but the contestants are still stone-cold foxes

Wed, 21 Jul, 2021 - 14:00

Esther McCarthy is a columnist covering the chaos, comedy and complexities of life for Irish women.

Give the people want they want, warned The Kinks, and they’ll get what they deserve.

Well, the people, it seems, can’t get enough of dating shows. Chuck Barris introduced the original dating show, The Dating Game, back in 1965. Sure, our Cilla added a bit of innuendo, and we evolved to include villas and nudies in coloured boxes, but from Chuck’s single man behind a screen asking questions to three potential mates, dating shows remain fundamentally the same.