Remember Love and Lies? The show where high schoolers were forcibly paired off and we followed a boy, the girl he was paired with, and the girl he actually loved? What if, instead of this mismatch happening at the hands of an Orwellian government, it was instead perpetrated by the school, as a “practical exam” for the supposed reason of teaching kids what a real relationship was like?
Now, to be fair, Love and Lies fell short primarily because of its details, not its premise. Still, softening the edges and adding a bit of Toradora!‘s creative DNA – those are odd choices. Love and Lies felt compelling in part because there were actual stakes. This is a little school project that for some reason lasts for an entire year of forced dorm cohabitation, rather than the week that would be an arguably interesting exercise.
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