Kian Cleary

The series we were making was about people looking for a job.

But we did hear very often about people's want and desire to find love.

And there wasn't any support in that area.

I'd always wanted to make a dating show that felt really real and kind of just truthful and honest and didn't necessarily have all the bells and whistles of a competition.

And so that was, I guess, the kernel of the idea was, hey, there's this population of people who are wanting love.

Maybe this would make for a great doc series telling these stories and kind of helping people find each other.

We started to put the word out with...

all the kind of various groups and orgs that we had already worked with.

And there was definitely hesitation.

I guess it's understandable in that

Some shows out there that are in the reality dating space aren't necessarily the most positive or people who are part of those shows can sometimes come across badly.

And I guess there was skepticism of how we were going to tell the stories.

Brandon, it's a bit noisier than we expected.

Let us know if you want to move outside, okay?

Okay.

You know, there's a lot of humor in the show.

And I don't know how we navigate it.

I think it's just more of a gut instinct feeling of...

you know, on the day, but specifically in the edit, I think that's where it really kind of, you really have the chance to sit with something and make sure that it feels okay.

Yeah, I don't think there's been a time where someone has said that feels a little bit too much, where we've kind of said, no, just keep it.