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“What is love?” the esteemed musical philosopher Haddaway once asked. I thought I knew, but after watching four global series of Love Is Blind, I’m now at the same point mentally as the Euro-banger singer, for everything I once knew was just a lie.
Netflix’s extreme dating “sight unseen” show first arrived to rip up the rule book back in 2020, and since then there have been two U.S. series, a Brazilian version (2021) and most recently, a Japanese interpretation of the franchise (2022). Reader, I’ve seen them all, and boy, did Cupid’s arrow clang me over the head while watching these warp-speed romances from across the world. I’ve clearly been getting true love completely…
