[6] According to the show's producers, the goal is not necessarily to get either politician to change their minds on the issue, so much as to simply allow the participants to understand each other from a more human and less partisan perspective.
[5] Several episodes of the series have resulted in the participants continuing to maintain social friendships outside of work; Toronto City Councillors Gary Crawford and Shelley Carroll noted that their Season 3 episode resulted in them learning things about each other's lives, including the commonality that they are both parents to a child with a disability, that they never previously knew even after having served together on council for a full decade.
[7] The series is produced by Open Door and Nomad Films,[8] and was partially inspired by a similar print feature which ran in The Guardian during the 2017 United Kingdom general election.
[9] At the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020, Mark Johnston received a nomination for Best Writing in a Factual Program or Series for the Season 2 episode on indigenous peoples in Canada.
[10] The season and the series also closed with a new "date" between the same two politicians, Nathaniel Erskine-Smith and Garnett Genuis, who had appeared together in the show's very first episode.