Love Is Blind Season 2 is like aversion therapy for dating

Vox

"The most recent season’s nine episodes followed six unpleasant, recently engaged couples — all of whom met in the show’s specially designed pods, which kept them from seeing each other until after the question had been popped — who seemed doomed to failure," says Alex Abad-Santos. "This season had it all: gaslighting, lying, cutting, sarcasm, a man who looks illegally jittery telling his partner he hates her. The editors, producers, and casting agents seemingly pulled no punches; a lot of these people were revealed to be no good. It all left me with the cantankerous notion that a person should marry someone they’ve met in person and had multiple conversations with, and not under the pressure of a fake reality TV timeline. Go ahead, take all the time you want before you get married!" Abad-Santos adds: "The biggest difference between the first and second seasons of Love Is Blind is how deeply cynical the second one is. And this is coming from someone with a deeply misanthropic view of everyone on the many, many candid reality shows I enjoy. It felt as though the casting department, producers, and editors were creating a live-action taxonomy of people to avoid dating, rather than couples to root for."

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