Why three friends did a ‘Love Experiment’ to ‘date them all’

Three best friends go on a dating adventure together in the new MTV reality series “The Love Experiment.” 

Premiering Aug 15 (10 p.m.), the show follows Atlanta, Ga.- based single women Marcia, aka “Mars,” 30, a flight attendant; Paige, 27, who has her own management consulting business; and Tamara, 30, a flight attendant / entrepreneur, as they date from a pool of 24 men to narrow down their choices. 

“When you look at shows like ‘Love is Blind’ or ‘Love Island,’ you are trying to feel [the other] people out,” Tamara told The Post. 

“With us, we had an advantage because we came in with a strong bond and a friendship,” she said. “We were like, ‘I’ll lean on you, and if you see the red flags [in men], tell me!’ It was good to have support there, as we dated and found out more about ourselves. That’s how our show separates from any other show.”

“We’re big career women,” Paige told The Post.  “We’re sisters and friends, we support each other. Yes, we have our friends that we can text or call after a date [outside of the show]. But having them on that journey with you while they’re going on their journey — you don’t really get that, ever.”

The friends said they didn’t have any concerns about being interested in the same man. 

 “It wasn’t going to happen like that,” Marcia, aka “Mars,” told The Post. 

“That’s the beauty of it. We have such different interests in guys, our tastes aren’t the same. It was never going to be like ‘We both want him.’ It was more like ‘Girl, go get your man!’ It was never a competition amongst us, it was all love and guidance among friends.”

In the show, the three ladies enter a “hall” where 24 single men stand in separate alcoves, surrounded by photos and objects that signify their interests (to mimic the look of a dating app profile). 

Each man wears headphones, so the ladies can gossip about each man to his face as they essentially “window shop” for dates. 

“That was the best part. I loved that,” said Mars. 

“It was kind of like an icebreaker among us. We were able to have that little bit of secrecy with the guys –having our little nicknames and jokes and things just between us. Because [while the men wore headphones], they can see it, but can’t hear it.” 

Paige said she also enjoyed being able to discuss the men with her friends while they were standing in front of the ladies, unable to hear them talking. 

“We obviously don’t want to catcall. But when women are the ones doing it, like ‘You know what, he does have a nice six-pack,’ that’s fun, because that’s the stuff as women that we do amongst each other,” she said. 

“To do it to their faces is like, ‘Great! I’m glad you’re here to see my reaction to you. As soon as I saw the rooms, I was like ‘Okay, little artifacts, I see a cross, I see a law book.’ We love to be our own little FBI agents, if you will. What was great about getting out of the hall after seeing the looks of the guys was that we did get to peel back the layers and get to know them on close and personal levels.”

The three friends said that the selection of men got overwhelming at times, but Tamara said that she appreciated the variety.  

“We owe it to ourselves to date around, because we don’t have to settle. That’s the biggest takeaway from the show — date them all!”