Review: Netflix’s ‘Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On’ Episode Two: ‘Love Me Tinder’

An Asshole Using an App = Still an Asshole

This episode focuses on dating apps like Tinder and Bumble and the effect that these apps have had on people's lives. We get to see a sweet, young women named Jessica in Las Vegas who has it bad for a nightclub/party promoter named James Rhine who once was on "Big Brother," and he is all about using the apps to just keep dating/fucking women and not settling down like Jessica seems to hope that he might. The truth is that this type of guy has always existed regardless of what the tech of the time makes available to him, so pinning this behavior on the glitz of the app isn't all that intellectually honest. 

Rhine seems to consider himself a man of his times as he goes through the apps and talks about how the twenty-year-olds of today are a lot more sexually experienced than the twenty-year-olds twenty years ago and gives porn credit for that sexual acumen and he uses superficial apps superficially, which is fair. He uses Snapchats of himself with other women to break up with women he's done with so he doesn't have to break up with them himself. Jessica got hurt by his assholery and he has female roommates who call him out on his shit. Rhine ghosts Jessica while dating a new girl named Alexis who is casually optimistic about Rhine but when she confronts him lightly on his partying, he cuts her off, wishing her the best and wordlessly sending the message that they are through.

Alexis also ends up hurt by Rhine and his communication issues and Jessica gets a face to Face with Rhine where she cries over how the ghosting makes her feel and ultimately, Rhine possibly takes away that his behavior could be hurtful to people who might not have the same agenda that he has. Overall, though, this episode pins blame on social media and tech rather than looking at personal responsibility. We all can choose how we date/fuck each other, however we meet.