Online dating is hard. You can get ghosted, catfished, or otherwise buffaloed by your date. Netflix’s new dating show Sexy Beasts adds even more to the menagerie: on this dating show some unlucky soul could get beavered.

Sexy Beasts, which debuted its six-episode first season Wednesday, is trying to be a dating show with a difference. There’s still one single trying to find love from among three opposite-gendered contestants, but this show obscures the features of all participants with masks, makeup and prosthetic. This is supposed to force the daters to choose based on personality alone, which it does…to an extent. The most common profession among the daters is model, and no one on the show is hideous. Plus only faces are obscured; everyone’s physical fitness level is obvious and does not go unremarked upon.

So should you choose to spend time with these beastie boys and girls? Here’s how to decide if you should swipe right or left on this show.

Swipe right if...you want to laugh. The whole premise of the show is of course, ridiculous, but that’s just the start. Comedian/actor Rob Delaney (Catastrophe) hosts and offers wry commentary on dates in progress. The participants are silly – and not just because they are wearing costumes to make them look like dinosaurs or beavers. One contestant actually says his dating priorities are “ass first, personality second.” So much for not being shallow.

Swipe left if…you are looking for love connections. It’s hard to believe that any of these matches will lead to anything long-term, which isn’t really surprising – most dating game shows are designed for the amusement of the audience, not matchmaking. On this show, the chooser has a speed date with all three contestants in a bar (to the amusement and confusion of other bar patrons) and then eliminates one of the three. Then the picker has a lengthier date with each contestant and selects one beast to call his or her own. But despite the emphasis on substance over style, you can’t factor looks out of the equation. After the makeup comes off, the importance of looks return. The person choosing gets to see the rejected creature with their makeup removed, and almost universally, the male contestants express deep regret at losing each of the hotties they reject. That doesn’t bode well for the long-term.

Swipe right if…you like makeup and special effects. One bright spot in this show are the prosthetics and makeup from artist Kristyan Mallet. The character design work alone can make the show worth watching, just to see the kind of detail that goes into making people into aliens, rhinos, dolphins and moss-covered statues. It would be nice to see the makeup going on the contestants, but then that would spoil the big reveal at the end.

Swipe left if…you think this is about “furries.” It isn’t. The term “furry” doesn’t apply to everyone who casually dresses in animal drag. They gather in online communities, congregate at conventions that attract thousands each year, and attend local art jams. They are all brought together by the fun and fascination around having an animal alter ego. The ‘sexy beasts’ wear their prosthetics as a disguise, not as part of their personalities.

Swipe right if…you’re just cynical (and shallow) enough to enjoy laughing at the awkward people and moments in the show. Like when the contestants reveal themselves only to look completely different than expected. One of the contestants presents as a Texas ranger, but when his scarecrow costume came off he looked like a mop-headed middle-schooler. There’s a gal who is a dead ringer for Snooki. A Fabio lookalike? Present! There’s a woman so hell-bent on finding a husband she practically proposes on the first date, and a guy who takes off his jacket not so he can warm up his chilly paramour, but to give her a better look at his muscles. Even when it’s not ha-ha funny there definitely is a lot to snark on.

Swipe left if…you aren’t excited about eavesdropping on some unremarkable dates. Like 20-somethings pontificating about spiritual journeys and soul connections. Or finding out that one woman’s dealbreaker is whether her date will allow her dog to sleep on the bed. Or the guy that had to win at everything, including an ice-carving class. Or another one who insists on finding a cowboy (in London!), which she does, only to instantly ditch him for a new age guru type. Some of the dates look fun, but most of the conversation is banal and it’s not always fun to go along as a third wheel on these outings.

Will you love Sexy Beasts enough to commit to all six episodes? Only you can decide. But if you’re ready to make that jump, you have six episodes now and six more to look forward to later this year.