Love is Blind is *so* funny because based on its name and premise you’d think they’d cast folks of all shapes and sizes when in reality it’s just the twenty or so meanest people you went to high school with
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I think the first one was the only good one. I think it’s people who want to be internet famous and meet someone who also wants to be famous so then it’s just a dumpster fire in the end.
Totally agreed. Once people are more "in" on it, it feels like it doesn't work. I was really rooting for people in S1, whereas later seasons it was just Drama.
I feel like The Circle was the same way. None of the later seasons had the magic the first did.
The first season was the closest to regular people, I think, but still not much diversity. I keep getting excited for a new season, forgetting how terrible it is, then keep being disappointed in how they actualise the concept. It *could* have been so cool, but it's just another trashy reality show.
My husband and I met playing online games, and we definitely said “I love you” before either of us knew what each other looked like… so I was really intrigued by the show at first. Because I do think love can happen “blindly.” I wish they added like… playing video games or something to the pods haha
I am disappointed how homogenized this season’s cast is. And one of the contestants spoke of getting a Chick-Fil-A tattoo. Very little social awareness.
It never stops bugging me that premise (which basically just phone dating) has nothing to do with idiom “Love is blind” which is about being unable to see your partner’s flaws.
When it comes right down to it, all reality shows are basically marketing ploys. The average person who watches this stuff doesn't want to see normal to less than attractive people enjoying themselves, unless they're getting beaten up or mistreated in some form or fashion.
I feel like the producers have to be out there saying "okay so we need to get someone who's exactly racist enough for network TV, find what race they like the least, and then make that who we pair them with"
Josh Johnson has a bit about the show and a plan to cast only short dudes and I feel like that idea should get a McCarthur Genius Grant and go immediately into production.
The best part of the show is wondering why they're single and then finding out in episode 6 they have some of the worst insecurities or strangest expectations in a partner. It's like a guessing game up to that point though.
My girlfriend was watching the last season and I said “oh I get it, they must have some folks who aren’t conventionally attractive mixed in, right? In the spirit of the title of the show?”
Also, too many gimmicks. Like the set up is the whole “looks aren’t everything”, but the bulk of the show is “get pressured into marriage in an unreasonably short amount of time”.
The “I don’t know if this will work because your dad hates me” is so far removed from “I usually only date blondes”
They’re also getting the wrong idea from the phrase “love is blind”. It has nothing to do w/ looks & everything to do w/ being blind to a person’s faults when you have on rose colored glasses. I watched the 1st season during 2020 lockdowns & felt better about my life choices after seeing that chaos.
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I feel like The Circle was the same way. None of the later seasons had the magic the first did.
given: God is love.
therefore: Ray Charles is God.
As you were --
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Aaaand he's cheated on her."
[Note: replace Devon with Chase, Manuel, Hans as requided; depending on which international version my wife is currently watching.]
I missed the beginning of the first episode and was hella confused 😂 I thought they canceled it and forgot to change the tv guide
“Nope, not really.”
The “I don’t know if this will work because your dad hates me” is so far removed from “I usually only date blondes”
*thin/fit