EVER think you might have married the wrong person? You love them, of course, but not in the delirious, all-consuming way you imagined you would when the two of you were younger and in the first flush of the romance.
It’s turned into a marriage of comfort and companionship more than passion. Meanwhile, you know your ideal match – your perfect partner, the one you should rightly be spending your life with – has to be out there somewhere, maybe stuck in the same dissatisfying situation with someone else.
Things could be so much different if only the two of you could meet, Wouldn’t it be great if there was a company devoted exclusively to bringing people ideally suited to one another together? Or perhaps it wouldn’t be so great. Perhaps it would be disastrous.
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Since Ryan Murphy revived the anthology drama with
American Horror Story, everybody wants a piece of the pie.
Others such as Charlie Brooker, Noah Hawley, Mark Duplass & Jay Duplass, Nic Pizzolatto and Jordan Peele have all found success with the form, whether in complete seasons or self-contained episodes.
Soulmates by William Bridges and Brett Goldstein is the latest entry to the genre from Amazon Prime.
Not far removed from the world of
Black Mirror, each episode centres around the concept of Soul Connex, a company trading in the breakthrough test which can scientifically determine your perfect life partner. Set 15 years into the future, their lab test entails a quick retina scan playing matchmaker with its clients.