Can you find ‘the one’ without ever meeting them? It’s the premise of the streaming giant’s latest smash, which is problematic, unprogressive ... and has viewers totally hooked
By now, in the final days of Netflix’s “three-week event”, you will have at least heard of Love Is Blind. You may well have watched all of it, suppressing your horror and self-loathing for just one more 50-minute episode. If not, then here is the premise: 30 men and women date each other, in rotation, from isolated “pods” where – sight unseen – they pair off, which is obviously to say, they get engaged. Only then do they see each other for the first time – one month before their wedding day.
Then, they must zip through relationship milestones – first holiday together, cohabitation, meeting the parents – before they decide, at the altar, whether or not to say: “I do.” The weddings episode, the finale, will be available on
Netflix from Thursday.