Rachel Abrams

Which strikes me as really kind of a feat because, just to put it bluntly, how on earth does this man, who has worked on shows like Dancing with the Stars, convince people that he is going to make, what, the only reality dating show that doesn't actually exploit people?

He did basically the classic journalistic thing of convincing somebody earnestly that you really want to tell their story.

You are not trying to use them or exploit them or humiliate them.

Yeah.

Is there an example that really illustrates this that you could give us?

So clearly it sounds like Kian is helping some of these people who have talked to you feel seen.

He's making them feel comfortable.

He's reassuring their families.

But I'm sure there's also this question of like what happens in post-production, right?

Like what happens to the footage and what happens if there is material that, for example, the participants might feel uncomfortable having shown on television, right?

Like they don't have final cut, right?

They can't demand that stuff be excised.

So how is that –

Yeah.

So in her mind, who's getting excluded from that?

Right.

Because autism is a huge spectrum.

Like, it would make sense that not everybody who's autistic would be good for a reality show, just like the same way that not everybody in the general public would be good for a reality show.

But what she's saying, it sounds like, is that, therefore...

For a show about dating with autism, it could only be so representative.