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'The One That Got Away' Has Brigadoon Energy
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'The One That Got Away' Has Brigadoon Energy

The new Prime reality show is high-concept, medium-drama fun.
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Opinions vary, but personally, we believe there’s room for a lot more high-concept fantasy in reality dating. More eerie entrances, more mystical moments, more —let’s just go with it — smoke machines. Why can’t a reality series inject a bit more “Brigadoon” into our “Bachelor”?

This is what we crave, and it’s what “The One That Got Away” delivers. Since leaving “The Bachelor,” producer Elan Gale has been trying his hand at more experimental dating shows (see: “FBoy Island,” also gloriously back this summer), and his newest is a 10-episode series on Prime with a time-travel twist. Six singles await missed romantic connections from their past, who arrive through a magical portal (some rocks surrounded by purple uplighting and smoke machines) for another chance at love. There are Confirmation class buddies, high school classmates, exes and friends’ exes — even current best friends — and they’re all ready to shoot their shot with one of the leads.

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