The Nevermets on Channel 4 is even more embarrassing than Naked Attraction as we’re introduced to a series of that rarest of modern creatures: the innocent Jay and Veena in The Nevermets on Channel 4 Warning: Sarah and Jgoy from the Nevermets on Channel 4 Do not watch The Nevermets expecting the magical moments that sometimes make a programme like First Dates worthwhile. First Dates can work its way through the initial awkwardness of two strangers meeting and, somehow, some of them click. Then there’s Married at First Sight and all the rest of them.
God only knows what happens on Love Triangle Australia ; I hope I never find out. Unlike all of the other dating shows, in The Nevermets we are seeing people who are already in relationships with each other when the programme starts. They have maintained long-distance romances.
Sarah and Jgoy have been talking on their mobiles, across continents and time zones, several times a day for two years. Naked Attraction it ain’t. The Nevermets is much more embarrassing and also, strangely, much more naked.
In The Nevermets we start with the magic, which has grown in the lovers’ isolation from each other. Geographical separation is very romantic. Now as the voiceover, which is provided by the unconvincing Dawn French, rather disingenuously puts it, they have decided to cross the world to meet each other (because the producers asked them to, maybe?).
On the whole, the UK-based Nevermets are, to a man and to a woman, examples of that.
