"Love is Blind" 2 provides pure, addictive Guilty Pleasure, and one of the best TV shows we've seen

The previous season of the reality series was successful not only in terms of viewing data but also in the connection between the couples.

In contrast, new couples need counseling even before they discover their fiancée's last name, and the dramas begin long before the marriage proposal

Ben Byron Braude

27/02/2022

Sunday, 27 February 2022, 08:12 Updated: 08:27

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Trailer for the second season of "Love is Blind" (Netflix)

In ten episodes and less than a month of filming, the couples go through upheavals that would not embarrass such on the verge of their silver wedding.

The stage of meeting the families, trauma even in real life, feels particularly extreme here

Have you always wondered what would happen if they created a format that combines a matchmaking program with a disaster movie?

You can stop wondering and just click play on the second season of "Love is Blind".

Netflix's matchmaking reality, whose final episode aired this weekend (a reunion episode will air this coming Friday), does just that: Under the guise of a quick true love search, including a marriage proposal and then a wedding, six matching couples are matched like Aquarius and iPhone .

The result is of course a pure and addictive Guilty Pleasure, or simply: one of the best reality dorms I have seen.

A reminder to those whose memory has been corrupted by the Corona (and I among them): About two years ago, Netflix recorded a significant home run in the field of reality with the rise of the first season of "Love is Blind", an original matchmaking program that combines binge and traditional viewing. Chapters).

The idea of ​​seeking true love, one that does not depend on external or superficial characteristics, accompanies us from about the dawn of humanity.

At its core there is an assumption that each and every one has a soul mate in the world, the ideal spouse, and if we search enough we can also find them.

It is possible that the twenty men and women who came to the second season of the show hold this perception.

Still - the previous season of the show was successful not only in terms of viewing data but also in the connection between the couples.

Two of the six couples who got engaged (Lauren and Cameron and Amber and Matthew) not only got married in the final episode but also stayed together to this day, more than four years since their wedding episode was filmed.

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Stronger connection.

Mallory and Salvador, "Love is Blind" Season 2 (Photo: Netflix)

Netflix had hoped that "Love" would become their flagship reality show (though, it's more representative than "Hot, Hot, Boiling") and had it not been for the Corona we would probably have watched the show's fourth season already.

Despite the long hiatus, the new season does not feel outdated or restored, on the contrary - it is much better than its predecessor.

The reason?

Last season the match between the couples ranged from good to excellent, which created a lot of sticky scenes of acquaintance, love and empowering conversations.

On the other hand, the six couples who got engaged this season need couple counseling even before they discover the name of their fiancé.

In fact, the dramas begin long before the marriage proposal, in the ten days they have mental conversations in the cells.

Take for example Jarrett, who came to the show after nearly losing his life a year before filming, and fell head over heels in love with Mallory - a beautiful and well-established young woman who liked him very much but felt a stronger connection to Salvador.

Jarrett rushes to propose to Mallory but it refuses, and after he bitterly weeps (must be seen to believe) he resets himself and proposes marriage to Iyana who understands well that for him she is only a consolation prize.

Is it possible to establish a relationship from such a low starting point?

And another one that ends with a wedding in front of the whole family about three weeks later?

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Plenty of coupon pairs.

"Love is Blind" Season 2 (Photo: Aarón Ortega / Netflix)

Jarrett and Iiana are really not the most detached couple of the season.

There's also Natalie, the successful immigrant daughter, and Shane, the man who describes himself as "the most animal type in the world" (his mother by the way, is the person most similar to British actor Eddie Isard besides him).

There is no doubt that there is a strong physical attraction between the two, but what do you do when there is no agreement on any other issue?

Add to the equation the fact that one of the other contestants engaged in the cells, Sheyna, has decided to give up her chosen partner and try again with Shane, and you'll get a strictly springy Jerry drama.

In ten episodes and less than a month of filming, the couples go through upheavals that would not embarrass such on the verge of their silver wedding.

The stage of meeting the families, trauma even in real life, feels especially extreme here, most of the contestants did not tell their parents at all that they are looking for a relationship and suddenly they come home with a complete stranger who is their fiancé.

Kat L-'s where we went wrong 'from all the family members turn the scenes into pure TV gold.

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One of them is one of the most horrible dushbags seen on screen.

Shake and Dipty, "Love is Blind" Season 2 (Photo: Netflix)

After last season Netflix was criticized for casting only beautiful and beautiful characters for the show on "True Love," this time they tried to correct the distortion.

In the initial phase of the program a number of men and women can be seen whose BMI does not meet the standards of beach models.

You will probably be surprised to find that none of the above receives a marriage proposal in front of the camera. Is it possible to hear "overweight" out loud? An interesting question but for another forum. Born in India and never dating their partner from their culture, without going into too many spoilers, one can only say that one of the couple is one of the most horrible dushbags seen on screen.

Engagements, a vacation with the other couples (did you think the couples meeting in a "wedding" is fascinating? Wait until you see it), a family reunion, tensions around romo issues like who leaves the toilet seat up - it all ends under the canopy and in ten episodes.

The show's editors have done an amazing job throughout the season, thanks to which we reach the final episode with zero understanding of which of the couples will choose to say "I Do" and who will decide that was enough for them and they return to Tinder.

I will not do any spoilers, I will just mention that this is a final episode that is full of a sequence of surprises, some of which will turn even the greatest romantics into a cloud of dark gray cynicism.

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