Netflix unveiled the 20 contestants for Season 4 of Perfect Match on April 15, setting up a smaller, faster-moving edition of the dating series in Tulum, Mexico. The new season will again be hosted by Nick Lachey.

The shift matters because Netflix has cut the cast from the 22 to 23 contestants used in previous seasons to 20, saying the change is meant to let singles enter and remain in the house longer. The company said that gives late arrivals a genuine chance to stay and find a connection, a tweak that could change the rhythm of a show built around quick decisions and fragile pairings.

Perfect Match follows singles who have already appeared on dating reality shows but did not leave those programs in lasting relationships. In Season 3, AD Smith and Ollie Sutherland were brought together, and they appear to be one of the franchise’s only couples still together. That makes them the clearest example yet of what the series is trying to produce: a match that lasts after the cameras stop rolling.

The franchise has not always worked that way. The first two seasons featured contestants exclusively from Netflix reality programs, before Season 3 broadened the pool to include personalities from shows such as Love Island, Siesta Key and The Bachelor. Season 4 keeps that larger world in place while narrowing the starting field, a sign that the show is trying to create more room for people to settle in instead of racing new faces through the house.

The format still ends with one couple crowned the winner and sent on an all-expenses-paid vacation to the destination of their choice. What Netflix is testing now is whether fewer contestants can produce stronger bonds, or simply make it harder for the house to keep changing shape once the early pairings start to form. For viewers, the answer will come quickly: this season is built to give its late arrivals more than a cameo, and that may be the biggest departure of all.