Same pods, different pairs. Love is blind will return for season 2 and a chance to continue his romantic experience.
The Netflix reality series, which was filmed in 2018 and premiered in February 2020, has asked its contestants to go on blind dates literally in the hopes of proving that, well, love is. in fact blind.
Hosted by the husband and wife team of pseudo and Vanessa Lachey, the first season put 30 men and women in windowless rooms, aka “pods,” where they could talk to potential mates through a wall, but couldn’t see them. The goal was to build a connection based on someone’s personality, not how they look, and get engaged, visibly after 10 days of dating. Think The single person meets Married at first sight.
The crazy thing is that the blind love experience worked – sort of. Two of six couples who put a ring on ended up getting married: fan favorites Lauren Speed and Cameron Hamilton, as good as Matt barnett and Amber Barnett (born Pike), who moved past all love triangle dramas with Jessica batten to tie the knot.
Even crazier? These couples are still married and celebrated their respective one-year wedding anniversary with the second Love is blind special reunion, After the altar, released in July 2021.
To be fair, creator Chris Coelen always knew he had a blow on his hands. “I believed enough in the universality of the idea and felt strongly that the people who connected in this way were a pretty good idea, a pretty interesting idea, a pretty radical idea, that I felt like people would develop a real emotional connection, ”he said. The AV Club in February 2020. “But I really had no idea it was going to be as successful as before.”
As fans learned after watching the three-episode reunion, many of those unmarried singles are still looking for love, including Giannina Gibelli, who finally said goodbye to her ex-fiance, Damien Powers, after showing up for the meeting with Francesca Farago by netflix Too hot to handle it.
However, other members of the original cast found romance with people outside of the series like Batten, who announced his engagement to Dr Benjamin McGrath in September 2021. In April 2021, her former fiancé, Marc Cuevas, welcomed her first child with her fiance Audrey Rainey, to whom he proposed in November 2020.
The new season of Love is blind is heading to a new city where a whole new group of singles will be trying to find love with someone they’ve never seen. There will be romance, but also a lot of drama – promises co-host Vanessa.
Read on for everything you need to know about Love is blind season 2.
