Mischa Barton Under Blind Psychiatric Hold – Diurnal Blabber
Posted by grissonpol on July 19, 2009
Would you ever date someone who you’ve never seen?
I’m not talking about blind dates here. I’m talking about continuously dating a person that you still haven’t seen in the light of day. Would you do it? Are looks that important?
This is what ABC’s new show Dating in the Dark has set out to discover. Each week, the reality show, which premieres Monday at 10 pm, features three men and three women who remain completely sequestered from the members of the opposite sex. When they do meet, it’s in a dark room, where they can see absolutely nothing. Of course, us viewers get the chance to watch all the drama thanks to high-tech infrared cameras.
After a few days of getting to know their prospective mates, each person’s looks will finally be revealed, leaving them with the ultimate decision: Do they want to continue dating the other participant, now that they’ve seen how they look? I promise — the results are surprising.
Dating in the Dark is fascinating. In one part of the show, the participants work with a sketch artist to envision what their dates look like — it’s purely based on their imagination and touching each other’s faces in the dark (see image above). The results are incredible — the men’s sketches of the women are pretty much dead-on, while the women’s sketches of the men resemble supermodels — nothing like how the men actually appear. Is that because the men tried extra hard to figure out what the women looked like? Or is it because the women just really, really hoped their dates were super hot?
It’s a fun experiment and might actually make you think about how you’d react in the same situation. Plus, I can’t help but wonder which celeb couples would form if only they never saw each other’s appearances!
Tune into ABC at 10 pm for the premiere of Dating in the Dark and let us know how you liked it.
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