Getting Personal is a modern take on human connections and interactions explored via four couples who are on first dates resulting from personal ads This witty offbeat comedydrama offers up a mix of characters who dramatize gay lesbian and straight relationships They travel paths through loss and starting over pornography and religion control vs complacency and sex vs intimacy As the characters connect rant kiss or recite bad poetry they serve as standins for all of us who have ever been in love lust a romantic relationship or just on a really bad date