Discovery has long documented the human experience in some, ugh, odd circumstances. Naked and Afraid being one of them. Add in a dating show component and you a whole new show, sorta.
Launching Sunday, August 22 on Discovery+, ‘Naked and Afraid of Love’ will bring together nude 16 men and women on an island for nearly 30 days. Their goal? Try to find romance all while they are faced with wild, wild challenges.
The official synopsis reads:
On an unforgettable island paradise in the Philippines, things get wild when 8 single men and 8 single women come together to embark on the most extreme dating experience of all time as they attempt to find true love while working together to survive the elements and each other. While endless miles of white sandy beaches and clear turquoise water may seem like the perfect setting to fall in love, don’t let this Garden of Eden fool you. With no food, water or clothes readily available, these singles will be both physically and emotionally vulnerable and forced to depend on each other.
What will happen when the comforts of modern dating are stripped away – starting with the clothes – and they’re forced to resort to their most primal instincts to see if their love can survive?
‘Naked and Afraid of Love’ is one of three new dating focus shows being produced for Discovery+. ‘Mating Season’ and ‘Mountain Love’ are the other two.
For Mating Season “eligible women and men will leave behind their human habits and attempt to find true love, animal style. With truly animalistic challenges, such as limited speaking opportunities and choreographing the perfect mating ritual to win over their potential mates, MATING SEASON brings out the animal within to unleash our natural instincts in the pursuit of true love.”
Then there’s Mountain Love, produced by the team behind 90 Day Fiancé, “five people from cities and suburbs decide to move-in with their long-distance partners who live way, way off-grid in some of the most remote corners of the country. Will their relationships survive this real-world experiment as they take the ultimate plunge to leave civilization – and indoor plumbing – behind?”
