Four people go looking for love in “Swiping America,” a new “rom-doc dating series” on StreamOnMax, and one of them is a Utah native/former Latter-day Saint who tells viewers she’s still struggling to overcome her religious upbringing.
“The church definitely affected me sexually. I still feel bad sometimes for kissing boys,” Reagan Baker says in the first of eight episodes, which start streaming Thursday on Max. “I’ll be, like, ‘Oh, man. Such a sinner!’”
The first impression in Episode 1 is that she’s been cast as the “dumb blonde.” And she plays into that. But in Episode 2, her story will bring tears to your eyes. She quickly started dating a church member. “I got married. And then I got divorced,” Reagan said. “Actually, my ex and I, we left the church together. And then we got divorced.”And, she said, the way she was raised left her pretty much unprepared to be anything other than a housewife and mother. “One day, I realized I could actually be very successful, and I didn’t need to be married, and be home with a bunch of kids.
That point is pivotal. “Swiping America” is not a competition. None of the four cast members date the same people. As a matter of fact, Reagan said that she was told in her first interview with a casting director that producers didn’t want any “arguing” or “drama,” and even off-camera “There was never any drama in the house at all the entire time,” she said.
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