Understanding love and feelings
Films, surveys, exhibitions: news on romance, on bonds that build slowly and on the senses, sourced and put in perspective.
After a Prime Video No. 1, Ali Hazelwood sends Olive and Adam into ordinary life
Ali Hazelwood announced on September 29, 2026 that The Two-Body Problem, a sequel to The Love Hypothesis, arrives on February 2, 2027, with a film in development.
56% of Gen Z want a relationship and lack one, and a UK think tank points to closed pubs
The Intergenerational Foundation puts Gen Z's dating deficit at 56%, against 12% for Baby Boomers. It blames money, closed pubs and housing, while only 18% say they do not want a relationship.
A ten-foot steel pole replaced the first dance at Misha and Sam's wedding, and 300,000 people watched
Five couples told the New York Post that training together on a pole strengthened their bond. The trial behind pole dancing measured 50 women's own wellbeing, not any relationship.
Tara's app scores her match with Matthew below average, and Netflix's #Love bets on him anyway
In Netflix's six-episode Tamil series #Love, a compatibility app rates its founder's match with a rival below average. Psychologists who tried to predict attraction with algorithms found they could not.
Netflix will film the start of Violet and Edmund Bridgerton's marriage, whose end viewers already know
Netflix ordered a limited series on October 8, 2026 about Violet and Edmund Bridgerton, a marriage the show has told only in dialogue and one flashback. It has no cast and no premiere date.
In a survey of 603 men in Shanghai, doubt about the future, not past romances, explained attachment gaps
Gay men in a Shanghai survey reported more attachment anxiety and avoidance than heterosexual men, and perceived stability accounted for the gap while relationship history did not.
Luckey wants oxytocin in marriage counseling; a 96-couple trial found it added no benefit to therapy
Palmer Luckey told the My First Million podcast he would try to end divorce with oxytocin. A 2025 trial of 96 couples in therapy found the hormone safe but no better than placebo.
Attachment takes six conditions, and nothing in them names a human
On October 2, 2026, an attachment theory expert wrote that no study has yet tested chatbot relationships against the six conditions of attachment. A survey of 7,027 people found that at least one third of chatbot users show attachment-related behaviors, yet its questions were mild.