Netflix Star Francesca Farago on How Dating Shows Like 'Perfect Match' Are Changing the Game for LGBTQ Representation on Reality TV

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from Episode 1 - 8 of Netflix's "Perfect Match"

If you've been listening to Netflix's new dating show, "Perfect Match," you've seen singles frolic and romance each other, hoping to find their so-called perfect match. And as part of that quest to find love, reality TV contestants don't discriminate when it comes to jumping into the dating pool.

Cast flip flops date and each other"s exes as they test the waters to see who they might find out they are the best mate.

In the final episodes of the series, star Francesca Farago dates a woman who is new to the house, Abbey Humphreys (an alumnus of Netflix's "Twentysomethings: Austin"). In previous episodes this season, Farago dated Dom Gabriel from "The Mole" and Damian Powers from "Love Is Blind".

Francesca Farago with Dom Gabriel in "Perfect Match". Netflix

The reality encounter genre has always been notoriously straight. But in recent years, as Netflix aired new dating competitions, castings have branched out to bring a lot more sexual inclusivity to TV.

Still, Farago says that when she signed on to "Perfect Match," the producers didn't not informed that she would have the opportunity to date men and women. "I think it was something that I guided during filming," Farago told Variety.

"I reached a point where I wasn't sure I wanted to stay in the house anymore because that I didn't know if there was someone there for me," Farago continues. "I knew who was there, on the men's side, and I was like, 'I don't know if I can waste time to someone by continuing to play with these men that I know I'm not going to get along with. , I discovered that there was a possibility that I was matched with a woman, and I thought to myself, "In that case, I will stay for this." I wasn't even sure it was going to happen because it was a heterosexual show. But I'm glad it happened, and I'm glad that relationship happened as well. I kind of changed the game."