As professional reality dating show viewers, we were feverish with excitement to watch Netflix’s new rom-com “The Wrong Paris” (brought to you by the director of Lindsay Lohan vehicles “Irish Wish” and “Falling for Christmas).

“The Wrong Paris” stars Miranda Cosgrove as Dawn, a small-town diner waitress and artist from Texas who is, of course, Not Like Other Girls. She doesn’t even watch the huge reality franchise “The Honey Pot,” a show similar to “The Bachelor” but with enormous cash prizes — and a love or money twist at the end. But when she needs money and a plane ticket to Paris for so she can enroll at a French art school, her normie sister convinces her to audition for the newest season, which conveniently happens to be filming in Paris. Dawn gets cast and boards the plane hoping only to pocket the $20k appearance fee paid to each cast member and get eliminated. Unfortunately, it turns out that the plane is heading to Paris, Texas — and the lead has no intention of eliminating her. Hey, he just loves the chase!

This is a rom-com about a woman who tries to scam a reality show and instead falls in love with a man who tries to hold her hostage until he can turn her ‘no’ into a ‘yes.” It’s a rom-com about chintzy metalwork art and high-school-level art criticism. And above all, it’s a rom-com about a reality dating show so poorly produced that it’s hard to imagine how the editors will even string together a season, given that most of the important narrative developments either happen off-screen or are interrupted by producers mid-filming because they’re TOO dramatic.

Along the way, we get some very light parody of “The Bachelor” and “Bachelor”-adjacent shows and a very topical plot twist.

In this episode, we recap the whole movie, try not to get too distracted by the obvious production missteps of the “Honey Pot” crew, and laugh a lot. Maybe this wasn’t “The Wrong Paris” for us, after all! Hope you enjoy. xo

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