Spokane native Patrick David helps Torontonians find love on Myx TV’s ‘Mom vs Matchmaker’

Call him the cupid of Canada.

Spokane native Patrick David is helping Torontonians find love as part of the Myx TV series “Mom vs Matchmaker.”

The “Mom vs Matchmaker” season two finale airs Tuesday on Myx TV, an Asian American entertainment network (Channel 820 on Xfinity and channel 2067 on DirecTV).

David began matchmaking as a high school student at Northwest Christian as more and more friends came to him with questions or wanting to bounce ideas off of him about someone they were interested in.

“I seemed to have a knack for breaking it down and simplifying it and hearing what they were saying,” David said. “The wheels in my head would start spinning and it became like a little puzzle.”

David, who also works as an actor, moved from Spokane to Los Angeles in 2004 and relocated to Toronto a year and a half ago. It was at a Toronto Film Festival party that David met Carmelia Ray, the matchmaker on “Mom vs Matchmaker.”

David expressed interest in her work, and she suggested he come by her office and give it a try. The pair clicked, and David has been working with Ray ever since.

On and off the show, David has a variety of duties, though he mainly acts as a scout, looking for people who might be interested in using Ray’s services, which range from matchmaking to life coaching.

David has especially helped Ray expand her database, which was mostly straight 40- to 50-year-olds, to include millennials and the LGBTQ community.

“Her principals and ideals apply for finding a good partner, but that wasn’t her network of people,” he said. “She saw me as a way to bridge that gap or introduce that to her platform.”

Ray had already filmed season one of “Mom vs Matchmaker” when David joined her team, so he got looped in to help with season two.

In a typical episode of “Mom vs Matchmaker,” Ray meets a single 20-something and their mother. With a mother-knows-best mindset, the parent sets off to find their child a match, approaching strangers anywhere and everywhere including on the street and in coffee shops and grocery stores.

Ray, on the other hand, sits down with the client and figures out exactly what they’re looking for. Then she too, with David’s help, finds her best candidate.

The mom and Ray both coach their candidate before the client goes on a date with each choice. Only after they choose who they want to take on a second date does the client learn whether their mother or Ray chose the winning candidate.

“They’re looking for what they think is the best for their child,” David said. “I don’t think it’s a mystery, as well and deeply as parents can know kids, they’re not always seeing all sides of them. … It’s so fun watching these parents see their kids through these different eyes.”

Whether working on or off “Mom vs Matchmaker,” David loves the human aspect of matchmaking and the challenges working with people present.

It’s this human quality that David said should encourage people looking for a serious relationship to try a matchmaker instead of the latest dating app.

“It seems like those apps devolve very quickly into hook up situations, or they feed into the carefully curated version of someone’s self that they’re able to Photoshop their pictures or make it look like this or that,” he said. “They want to find a life partner, and this is a substantial and legitimate platform for that. To sit across the table from somebody and know that you’re being heard and know that you have the opportunity to be honest and not have to present yourself in a certain way, there’s an incredible value in that.”