Love Is Blind Producers Should Have Forced These Two Couples to Get Engaged

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Love Is Blind is welcome to call itself an “experiment” all it wants, but we prefer to call it what it is: a TV show. Lately, it has become a show that shows us delectably dysfunctional matches in the pods and then fails to show us their sure-to-be-messy engagement. Last season, Brittany and Leo fully got engaged but were booted by producers for the terrible crime of being ~~watchable~~ not enough in love. This season, the two most dramatic pod pairs broke up before even getting to the big reveal. So, we’ll say it: It’s time for the producers to produce and get those rings on some fingers.

The two couples in question are, of course, Mason Horacek and Meg Fink and Alex Brown and Madison Errichiello. Screen time of the four of them made up the majority of episodes one through six, with Mason dating both Madison and Meg, while Madison is dating both Mason and Alex. Meg is a Joe Rogan fan who connects with Mason over their mutual love of Her. Madison is a trauma-dumping artist who talks about creampies. Alex is a nervous wreck who is drawn to avoidant women. Ultimately, Madison breaks up with Mason and chooses Alex, only for Alex to dump her because he’s nervous about her being emotionally avoidant. Subsequently, Mason and Meg also break up because Meg’s feeling second-best and doesn’t trust where Mason’s head is at. So, in a matter of two dates, the most interesting couples of the season are gone, and we’re left with one couple whose biggest conflict is a five-year age gap and another arguing about church. Bo-ring!

Love Is Blind is built on intra-show conflict, but these couples’ departure means there is none. The stage after the pods is a vacation for a reason. It doesn’t just introduce the couples to each other physically, as Nick Lachey would say, but it also allows all the men and women to meet across couples, which yields the juiciest drama of the season. This time, none of the couples will really care about any of the other couples, which means we’re about to get a lot of beach montages in Honduras. That’s a problem. We watch Love Is Blind to see the Jessicas pine after Barnetts while engaged to Marks. This season, every couple is Brett and Tiffany (if they’re so lucky).

Producers manipulate. We know this. UnReal was an entire TV show built on how romance-based reality TV shows are manipulated. Still, Love Is Blind producers are pretty intent on making it seem like they don’t participate in all that. “We want to follow the ones we feel are genuine,” Chris Coelen told Vulture in 2024. “We don’t want people to do stuff for TV.” And we get it, but maybe it’s time to start doing stuff for TV. Given both Leo and Brittany from last season, and this season’s missed connections, the show is depriving audiences of the most interesting couples and binge-worthy drama. We cannot settle on watching a pretty boring group of Minnesotans be nice to each other. Producers, it’s time to meddle.