Find Me Falling: Netflix has released this romantic comedy starring Harry Connick Jr who plays a worldwide music star who has decided to move to the island of Cyprus. Cyprus is the third largest island in the Meditteranean in the eastern end of the sea close to Turkey, Syria and Greece. The scenery is very similar to Greece. His reasons for choosing this destination become apparent pretty quickly. He has decided to slow down, focus less on his career, and his first step is buying a piece of property which has an enticing cliff, but one that he learns has positives and negatives.

He is introduced to the local grocery store and woman in charge who sends along a pleasant young woman to deliver his purchases to him. Things happen. The reasons for his choosing Cyprus materialize with a history lesson for Harry and a woman on the island. The rest is fairly predictable. There are issues to be addressed and Harry needs to show that he is a changed man. He is hoping that his presence on the island shows that this is the case. Overall, this is a straightforward romantic comedy film set in a pretty location. I like the travel log as I have never been to Cyprus but it looks nice. I don’t need to meet Harry when I am there.

Love Is Blind UK: The Love is Blind franchise began in 2020 in the US has had six seasons. It has spawned eight (!!) international shows including Love is Blind Sweden, Love is Blind Mexico and now UK. I prefer watching where the contestants are speaking English and I don’t need subtitles but I have been told that Love is Blind Japan was very interesting to watch.

This season has 11 episodes and then a still unreleased episode 12 with having the contestants come back together in a reunion show. As in the US, the show puts together 28 singles who are unable to see the members of the opposite sex, but can speak with them in pods. The pods are small rooms with opaque seperators where each one of the dating couple can have a seat and just chat. The couples will continue with dating and chats, and only if they become engaged do they actually meet face to face. Then the next phase of the experiment occurs where the engaged couples head to an exotic beach location to explore their physical connection. Finally they come back to home (in this case London) and meet friends, families and utlimately decide if they want to actuall marry in the last episodes of the show. For the UK, we have six couples who passed the exotic destination test and went to the altar.

Of course this is mind candy. Reality TV with real lives impacted and at stake. I liked this season and those involved generally, because I think that they generally communicated well, and were in the show for the right reasons. A few were a little older, and this is beneficial to the overall feeling. They want to find their match, this is a new idea from the apps and online world which can be very superficial focusing on looks alone. By contrast the idea is these contestants fall for the person, the content of what they say, how they say it and their values. The intrigue happens when a contestant is choosing between more than one person and has to make a choice before ever setting eyes on these people. Of course for dramatic purposes those people have an opportunity to meet those people that they rejected. It all culminates with a dramatic finale with friends and family there, wearing full dress and tuxedo and deciding whether to marry or never see the person again. For me, I was cheering for many of the couples. Others may not seem ready, or have those around them who aren’t ready for them to be married (like a parent). I can say that I was surprised at a few of the end results. I do hope that there are more UK versions with their fun accents and hopefully people wanting to find love rather than their 15 mins of TV time. I think in this genre of dating reality shows that this was one of the better seasons. I have never professed to being immune from watching mindless TV!!