Love Is Blind has already embedded itself in the gossip ecosystem, with interviews and SEO-baiting headlines littering the websites of tabloids. Billed as a new spin on a time-worn format, the series follows a variety of Atlanta “content creators” and “fitness instructors” as they date each other blindly, before rushing into an engagement and hurtling towards marriage. All of this, should each couple make it to the finish line, takes place in just a month. Amid the hype, Netflix released the hotly anticipated reunion episode, a year after filming had wrapped on the show.\n
love is carefully and meticulously stage-managed, with contestants herded between locations like cattle to the slaughter. The main difference, maybe, is that cattle can’t be influencers, desperate to sign themselves up for an obviously cheap show. Still, contestant’s lives were afforded little decency while filming, and no better at the reunion.
more of the same: Empty platitudes about how “grateful” the Lacheys are for everyone participating and long, drawn-out monologues about love “being blind,” if only for the first hour of the very first episode, before anyone had actually seen each other., cameras were quick to open doors and pry into the private lives of contestants, but producers did little to prod anything meaningful from the experience.
This format repeated itself in the reunion episode. Friends and family of the contestants were barely given any space at the reunion, although their puzzling glances to the cameras and each other were some of the more interesting moments on the show. I could have sat with Lauren’s dad for hours and watched him work through his mistrust of Cameron .
As for other intriguing moments on the show that went abandoned at the reunion, I was stunned that neither Nick nor Vanessa chose not to broach politics with the cast members, something producers seemed eager to cut out for most of the show. Even fan favorites Lauren and Cameron have said in
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