Molly - Love is Blind
One thing about me is that I am going to watch every season of Love Is Blind, no matter how boring or stupid it is. Yesterday, the wedding episode of season 8 dropped. This season, set in Minneapolis, was pretty boring overall. Almost everyone, men and women both, had the same color of vaguely dark blonde hair and it was hard to keep them straight.
I've written about The Bachelor before:
and am currently working on a theory that bachelors who comes from individual sports background vs. team sports backgrounds are more emotionally intelligent.
I can't stop watching dating shows because no matter how contrived and silly they get, they always shed light on human nature, intentionally or not. Love is Blind's premise is to test whether an emotional connection built in the "pods," rooms where couples date but can't see each other, can carry a couple all the way to marriage. This season was actually light on physical attraction based conflict. Usually there's at least one couple that just can't overcome it. (aside: for a really interesting look at one that DID, check out Love is Blind Japan). And I don't think these conflicts disprove the premise of the show. It's often not some misprioritization of beauty so much as a lack of understanding of chemistry.
It's telling that most of the successful (as in, still married) couples from the show were never in love triangles or quadrangles. They picked the person they felt immediately drawn to and stuck with it. In the most dramatic triangle, season 5's Zack, Irina, and Bliss, where Zack picked Irina, broke up on the "honeymoons," and went running to get Bliss back, an all-time successful match did happen. They have a baby now! I would credit this to Bliss's belief in their connection more than Zack's remorse/bravado. A lot of Love is Blind is quite simple. It works when people really, really want something!
In another life, despite not being the kinds of people who would ever be cast on a dating show, Paul and I would obviously end up together.