The Love Experiment review: RTÉ's new show brings  science to the dating game

The Love Experiment has prospective couples asking each other questions that social scientists say will promote intimacy 
The Love Experiment review: RTÉ's new show brings  science to the dating game

Shannel Lynch on The Love Experiment, the new dating show on RTÉ2.

First dates are intense. But not 36-questions intense – and not four-minutes-staring-wordlessly-at-each-other intense.

Yet this is what you get with The Love Experiment, a new dating show that began on Thursday on RTÉ2. It involves two strangers paired together, asking each other a series of questions that scientific studies suggest can lead to love.

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