Love is blurry

Review: ‘Love is Blind’ season two lets down viewers

Netflixs reality television show released its second season last month.

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Netflix’s reality television show released its second season last month.

Rebekah Mann, Editor In Chief

Not a single couple in this season of “Love is Blind” was worth rooting for.

Season two of Netflix’s reality match-making show returned to the streaming platform on Feb. 11, releasing new episodes in chunks every Friday and ending the season with the finale on Feb. 25.

The show continued the same plot line of single men and women in their late twenties to mid thirties blind dating each other through a divider. The individuals rotate through each other in the “pods,” essentially ruling out people they do not click with, and in the end, six couples become engaged without ever seeing each other.

The characters from this season were portrayed as superficial people with superficial problems. They get engaged and “fall in love” in a matter of days, and are then devastated when something as silly as Guitar Hero threatens their relationship.

The show forces these couples to take such big strides in their relationships so quickly, so none of the couples seem genuine or deep in their connection. Several times the engaged individuals talk about how strong their connection with their partner is, but they are dating, getting engaged and being married in only six weeks. This is barely even a primary school grading period.

Some of the men in this show were astonishing — in the worst possible way. One of the men, who ended up engaged somehow, asked the women he was dating in the pods if he would be able to lift them onto his shoulders at a festival in order to gauge how heavy they were. Along with this being fundamentally wrong and fatphobic, it also ruins the entire point of the show, which is to fall in love sight unseen.

A lot of comments about body weight and appearance were made, specifically by the men on the show, really defeating the purpose of developing feelings solely based on personality.

None of the couples really seemed worth rooting for. Even though some of them seemed to be genuinely in love, the future of their relationship held no emotional weight when watching. The finale became about seeing who would actually say “I do,” because no one seemed confident or secure in their engagement.

“Love is Blind” season two lacked the same emotional connection that some of the season one couples brought to the screen. The best word to describe the season is “indifferent.” Overall, it’s an easy and fun watch, but not at all rewatch worthy.