The show offers up such a precise blend of the preposterous and the perfunctory that you might easily imagine the pitch meeting that spawned it: “Hot people … but disguised! As dragons and gorgons and hammerhead sharks!” (Hotness, in this alleged search for spiritual connection, is its own kind of inevitability.) If you’re looking for proof that TV’s gilded age will air its share of fool’s gold, look no further than Sexy Beasts. Sexy Beasts confuses spectacle for interestingness its ultimate failing, though, is that it confuses appearance with identity. The shows argue, absurdly and sometimes accurately, that the answer might come in disguise. “Who is that?!” the judges, trying to see the people inside the costumes, regularly agonize on The Masked Singer. Their inanities, in that sense, become revealing. But its shows are also engaging with some of the moment’s most elemental questions: about identity about human presence in digital spaces about the fate, it is no longer melodramatic to say, of reality itself. The genre, in its every-day-is-Halloween excesses, might seem to be sardonic or simply delusional-more evidence, perhaps, of our uniquely whimsical dystopia. Borrowing elements from drag and cosplay and avatars and Avatar, they explore self-expression at a time when people are more exposed to and more isolated from one another than ever. The shows’ main pitch is revelation in reverse: They conceal people in order to explore who they really are. If the premise sounds familiar, that might be because it is also the operating principle of The Masked Singer, the disguised-celebrity juggernaut currently in its sixth season on Fox and of its popular spin-off, The Masked Dancer and of Alter Ego, the search for “the world’s first digital superstar,” which debuted this fall. Invisibility, Sexy Beasts suggests, is a means of vision. (Kelechi the rooster has two wattles that hang from his chin and sway insouciantly as he speaks several contestants discover what happens when champagne flutes contend with prosthetic snouts.) But the getups also have a philosophical purpose, the show insists: They help the daters see beyond the surface, and perceive the people behind the masks. The costumes of Sexy Beasts-elastic, protruding, disguising every feature of the wearers’ faces save for their teeth and eyeballs-work primarily to be amusing. Read: Love Is Blind was the ultimate reality-TV paradoxĬall it camp-ouflage. “So in this show, everyone looks as weird as possible.” “When it comes to dating, we all go for looks first,” each episode’s introductory voice-over intones. But Sexy Beasts, whose second season premiered this month, has a distinctly absurdist twist.
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The series is a new entry in an old genre that includes The Dating Game and Love Is Blind-a reality competition that, bemoaning dating’s superficiality, attempts to inject some corrective realness into its manufactured courtships. Welcome to Sexy Beasts, the Netflix dating show that takes the concept of the “blind date” and shrouds it in layers of latex. The two don’t find much else to agree on (the demon will soon break things off with the sculpture), but modeling? This, they have in common. “Ooh, I did a bit of modeling myself!” her flint-skinned date replies. “I moved to New York to pursue modeling,” the devil says, her horns protruding from the top of her head, her cherry-red cheeks stretching with her mouth as she smiles. The two sip their drinks and make stilted conversation. (Including connection to the base and/or any loose pieces.),ĭisplaying figures in direct sunlight may result in color fading over time.At a posh bar somewhere in the U.K., a devil is on a date with a statue. RightStuf will not be held responsible for any damages caused by assembly. If cast-off pieces are included, carefully remove at your own risk. It may be returned for an exchange if defective, if a replacement is not available a Gift Card will be issued. Ordering Note: All sales for this item are final. Be sure to add her to your collection!ĭue to licensing and contract restrictions, this product can be sold and shipped to North America only. Additionally, effect parts to recreate action scenes from the game and a Fou plushie are included as optional parts. "Trample them underfoot.? How delicious."įrom the popular smartphone game "Fate/Grand Order" comes a Nendoroid of the Alter Ego class servant "Meltryllis"! She comes with three face plates including her composed standard expression, a provocative laughing expression, and a blushing expression.
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