Longest Third Date is an upcoming documentary from the streaming service Netflix that quite literally sums up its plot with its title.
In general, third dates usually consist of dinner, drinks, and maybe a movie. They also serve as the perfect time to decide if you actually want to invest more time with that person in the future. But what if your third date lasts much longer than you expect, with no way of escaping each other? Well, that’s exactly what happened between Khani Le and Matt Robertson, who decided to opt for a bit of adventure by spontaneously heading on a last-minute trip to Costa Rica for their third date. Sounds romantic enough. But they took the trip in March 2020, right at the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown, which they didn’t realise would shut down borders across the world and, ultimately, force them to remain together in Costa Rica for the foreseeable future.
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Directed by Brent Hodge, Longest Third Date, has been described as an “unexpected social experiment” and “modern-day rom-com”, with its story of two strangers’ journey to find love, which saw them amid the ultimate test of compatibility during unprecedented times.
If you thought having to spend all that time alone with someone who you don’t know that well sounds like a nightmare, the trailer for the documentary shows that the pair definitely had their lows too. The trailer begins with the pair detailing their previous dating experiences and how they matched together on the dating app Hinge. For the first date, they had drinks, second, they went axe-throwing, and then things went from “zero to one hundred real quick”, with them deciding to embark on a quick trip to Costa Rica. “You only live once,” Matt tells the camera his thought process at the time before adding, “What’s the worst that can happen?” Well, that happened to be the coronavirus pandemic, which saw their flight back home cancelled and their hotel kicking them out, forcing them to move in together.