Single’s Inferno Season 4 ends as every season of the hit Korean reality dating show does: with a host of young, hot single people choosing the person they would most like to date from their fellow singles and hoping they will choose them back. For the producers of Single’s Inferno, this ending will inform everything that comes before on screen. “For us, the creators and crew, we know the final choices, and then we edit the whole thing,” co-creator and producer Kim Jae-won tells TIME, through an interpreter. “So we try to build up that suspense for the people watching.”
In Single’s Inferno Season 4, which just wrapped its 12-episode run on Netflix, four couples matched, leaving the island known as “Inferno” together. This left three men and four women from the 13-person cast alone, unlucky in love for now. Who ended up together at the end of Season 4? Are they still together now? And how does Kim and the rest of his Single’s Inferno team go about creating an atmosphere where people could possibly fall in love in such a short period of time? Let’s talk about the global hit that is Single’s Inferno…
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Kim, who co-created the show alongside Kim Na-hyun, said the idea came while he was working on another reality show. “It was a survival show on an uninhabited island,” says Kim. “I felt like the island was so beautiful. So I thought, ‘What if we have a dating show on this beautiful scenery?’” The island setting differs from those of most Korean reality dating shows, which often lean into the romantic coziness of winter in the city, says Kim. “I thought, ‘What if we turn it around and try a sizzling hot summer on an island?’”
The basic concept of Single’s Inferno is to strand a dozen or so Koreans looking for love on a deserted island, a.k.a. Inferno. For Season…
