The Nevermets review – online couples meet for the first time … and the results are bleak

The Nevermets review – online couples meet for the first time … and the results are bleak

These hapless subjects have all ‘fallen in love’ with long-distance partners and agreed to hook up in real life in front of cameras. Their crushed dreams are even more joy-sapping than you’d expect

Are you mildly depressed? Would you like to stay mildly depressed? Welcome, then, to The Nevermets, one of those programmes Channel 4 unofficially specialises in – potentially uplifting but in fact as relentlessly bleak an exploration of the human condition as you are likely to see, and built on a premise that is simple, brilliant and yet somehow still seems the product of sick minds dedicated to squeezing every last drop of hope out of existence.

The Nevermets follows various people who have been in online relationships for months, sometimes years, with other people thousands of miles away whom they have not met in real life. They all profess to be in love and have decided it is time to meet.

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