Summary
Grab your popcorn because Love is Blind Season 5 is as messy as we’ve seen the show yet.
Fresh off a massively successful season where we saw three couples say “I do” at the altar, Love is Blind enjoyed a fifth season in a different city with singles looking for love. Twenty singles entered the pods hoping to prove the show’s theme correct — that you can fall in love sight unseen.
Love is Blind follows singles in Houston, Texas, who are trying to find a match and fall in love without seeing their partners’ faces. They are on the hunt to find out if love is really blind. Our singles start by speed dating one another with the wall split between them. They get to know the other singles and narrow their list. This process happens until we see someone propose, and if they say yes, our couple finally gets to meet.
From the engagement portion, our couples head down to paradise for a brief calm before the storm, heading back home to mix their families and jobs into their new relationship. They have 28 days between the time they get engaged and their wedding day to decide whether or not they will walk down the aisle and say, “I do.”
Throughout the first four episodes, we see many firsts in Love is Blind history. We have our first-ever meeting of two people with a past and our first wilful departure from the show. The final first of the season comes from our first-ever love triangle, which I won’t divulge too many details on and let you find out about for yourself.
Like seasons in the past, Love Is Blind has moments that will surely have audiences picking and choosing their favorite singles and engaged couples. That said, this might’ve been my least favorite year for the guys on the show. I found most of them either overly annoying or coming off as jerks. Outside of Milton, he is my dude for life. On the flip side, I loved the girls on the season, including Lydia and Stacy, who felt like they were motherly figures as they were super supportive of the women who were upset after breakups.
The one thing that makes Love is Blind consistently the best reality dating show is its unpredictability. You have these people falling in love between a wall and trying to figure out if love is really blind, but some of these folks SEE the person, and all bets are off. While we might not have a power couple out of the pods like Brett and Tiffany, we have enough drama to make this season one of the best yet.
With things playing out through the season like never before, audiences will have plenty to discuss throughout the three-week series run and beyond. If we made a reality TV Mount Rushmore, Love is Blind would be on it.
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