Watch: Netflix Drops Trailer for LGBTQ+ Dating Show 'The Ultimatum: Queer Love'

Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 2 MIN.

The next edition of the Netflix dating show "The Ultimatum" – subtitled "Queer Love" – will feature five LGBTQ+ couples. A brand new trailer lays it all out, with the show's host, JoAnna Garcia Swisher, telling the 10 participants, "You're all here because someone in your relationship has issued an ultimatum."

As NBC News described it, "one partner wants to get married, while the other has doubts. The couple has just over eight weeks to decide to get married or break up," but there's a twist: One or both members of any given couple might find someone new right then and there. As Swisher notes, "Each of you are compatible with multiple people here."

Sparks are sure to fly, and the trailer is chock-full of them. "Someone here could be a good fit for me," one person mulls – presumably, not the partner in that particular couple who issued the ultimatum – while another declares, "I'm ready to spend the rest of my life with somebody."

That's not a point of view embraced by everyone on the show. "I'm not ready to commit to marriage," one person confesses, while another declares, "I don't want permanency, and I don't want stability. I want freedom."

One of the cast falls in between: "I want to live with you for five years, and then I'm open to it."

Evidently, even those who come in set on tying the knot are liable to change their minds. "You came in here with an ultimatum," one person chides another. "You knew what you wanted – and now you don't?"

Another participant says, skeptically, "You said you wanted to marry me, but you fell in love with someone else in a week and a half?"

Ultimatums of all sorts abound: "You can't have us both," one person tells a love interest, while another declares, "It's absolutely too late!"

The new version of the show repeats the same format as the heterocentric original, NBC News noted.

"Chris Coelen, creator of 'The Ultimatum,' told Variety last year the next installment of the series would have an all-queer cast made up of women and nonbinary people," NBC News recalled.

"What's fascinating is when you actually look at the reasons that people give for not being ready, there are a multitude of reasons," NBC News quoted Coelen as saying. "'I come from a family background of bad relationships. I don't want to repeat my past,' or, 'I'm not ready, I'm too young,' or, 'I need to be financially stable.'"

Or, in the case of one person seen in the new tailer, "If you don't like my dog, you can get the fuck out."

Watch the trailer below.


by Kilian Melloy

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