Spoilers for Love Is Blind season two below.
There is a spectrum of reality dating shows. On one end there’s The Bachelor. The behemoth TV franchise insists on tying romance to competition and increasingly looks and feels like a dinosaur: endlessly repetitive drama, cookie-cutter participants (Who’s the villain? Who’s the virgin? Who’s the goofball?), and a stucco-walled mansion with fake roses and pre-set chairs carefully arranged for good lighting in a well-mic’d nook.
On the other end of the spectrum, there’s Love Is Blind, the Netflix reality show now completing its second season. In some ways, it’s just as carefully orchestrated and unreal as any Bachelor season. The premise of the early episodes is that no one can see one another; they must meet and fall in love…
