Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
The Love Hypothesis follows Olive, a third-year biology PhD candidate who panics and kisses a stranger to convince her best friend she's dating — and accidentally recruits hotshot professor Adam Carlsen as her fake boyfriend. What begins as a controlled experiment in romantic deception grows increasingly difficult to manage as a major science conference puts Olive's career at risk and Adam's support turns out to be genuine. Research culture, slow-burn tension, and the limits of hypothesis-driven self-protection.
The Love Hypothesis is a romance novel by Ali Hazelwood, published September 14, 2021 by Berkley Books. Originally published online in 2018 as Head Over Feet, a Star Wars fan fiction work about the "Reylo" ship between Rey and Kylo Ren, the novel follows a Ph.D. candidate and a professor at Stanford University who pretend to be in a relationship.
From the Wikipedia article The_Love_Hypothesis, available under CC BY-SA.
Film
Hypothesis for Love and Truth
A community of over 200 marginalised lives staged as theatre, probing how love and truth coexist in messy urban reality.
Film
Andover
A genetics professor's obsessive experiment to recreate his wife reveals how love resists being reproduced by science.
Film
Bliss
A romantic connection forms under profoundly unstable circumstances, questioning whether the world they share is even real.
Series
Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It
Two scientists with mutual feelings attempt to resolve them using the same theoretical frameworks they apply to research.
Series
Fall in Love with a Scientist
A doctoral student and a scientist reunite unexpectedly at university, their online past now entangled with academic life.
Series
DNA Lover
A genetic researcher applies her scientific framework to finding a partner after deciding to leave an incompatible relationship.
Series
Faking It
Two best friends are mistakenly outed as a couple, launching them to sudden popularity with feelings that complicate the fiction.
Series
Made for Love
A woman's attempt to escape a suffocating marriage is complicated by technology her partner has embedded inside her.
Series
A Romance of the Little Forest
A research-focused botany professor and a woman with her own academic expertise develop an unexpected closeness.
Book
Quantum Love
A science-informed approach to sustaining romantic connection, arguing that early-relationship intensity need not simply fade.
Book
On Wings of Love
A scientist's rational self-defences give way when the one man she can't categorise returns into her life.
Book
Chemistry for beginners
A biochemist who has reduced love to equations finds his own tidy framework challenged from inside the lab.
Book
Our own private universe
A teenager tests a personal theory about identity and desire, moving carefully from hypothesis to lived experience.
Book
The Kiss Quotient
A woman who trusts mathematical models over intuition discovers that no algorithm reliably predicts what makes a heart respond.
Book
Let's talk about love
An asexual young woman who had given up on love finds it arriving unexpectedly anyway.
The TV show Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It captures the same charm — two researchers applying scientific logic to their feelings for each other, mixing comedy with genuine romantic tension.
The Kiss Quotient features a heroine who approaches love through data and algorithms, while Chemistry for Beginners follows a biochemist whose research collides with unexpected romance — both share that brainy, science-flavored tension.
A Romance of the Little Forest pairs a research-focused botany professor with a woman whose doctorate knowledge gradually wins him over, making it a strong slow-burn pick for fans of academic settings and reluctant love.