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2025 · Series · your starting pointIf Badly in Love is the itch, these scratch it — some louder, some quieter. Free ones first.
Shows like Badly in Love, ranked
1. The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You (2023)
The series matches that chaotic energy of managing multiple romantic entanglements simultaneously, where awkward personalities clash and genuine feelings emerge amid the absurdity of trying to balance competing connections.
2. Love Is Blind: UK (2024)
Love Is Blind: UK strips away surface judgments like Badly in Love does, forcing contestants with clashing personalities to build genuine connection under artificial constraints before reality inevitably tests their bond.
3. Dating Naked: UK (2024)
The vulnerable, unfiltered intimacy between strangers forced into close quarters—physical or emotional—strips away pretense and reveals authentic connections faster than conventional dating ever could.
4. Rent-a-Girlfriend (2020)
The messy collision of fake romance and genuine emotion mirrors how Rent-a-Girlfriend explores whether artifice can transform into real connection amid complicated personalities clashing under pressure.
5. The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On (2022)
The raw interpersonal friction and forced vulnerability that emerges when strangers navigate competing desires under one roof mirrors how The Ultimatum tests whether couples can survive external temptation and honest conversations.
6. Love Island USA (2019)
The pressure-cooker dynamic of forced coupling and constant recoupling creates the same high-stakes emotional turbulence, where contestants must navigate genuine feelings while managing strategic alliances under constant surveillance.
7. Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (2019)
Both series mine comedy from the tension between attraction and ego, as characters devise elaborate strategies to avoid vulnerability while their genuine feelings leak through despite their best efforts.
8. Rental Family (2025)
The Tokyo setting and exploration of authentic connection forming beneath surface performances create a parallel emotional journey between strangers navigating vulnerability and real relationships.
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