At the end of every season, Love is Blind’s biggest critics revisit the same question: Is Netflix’s reality TV phenomenon and “social experiment” broken? One could argue that the answer has been yes ever since the notorious Lydia-Uche-Aaliyah debacle in season 5. But now five seasons later, the definitive answer is, “Well, duh.”
Since we’ve seen time and time again that love is rarely blind, it seems we should pose a new question: Has Love Is Blind run its course? Season 10, which aired its finale on March 4, ended with only two marriages and reiterated yet again that the Netflix series has become nothing more than a perpetual-motion machine of discourse and dashed hopes. At this point, the global franchise has failed to amount to more than mortification voyeurism posed as entertainment. With the show's melodrama frequently being at the expense of its female contestants and telling us nothing new about modern romance, it may be time to close the door to the pods forever.
