Reality AF: A Love Is Blind Season 6 Preview With Answers to Burning Questions and 5 Contestants to Watch
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It’s that time of year again. Time to hop into a pod, fill a golden goblet with your favorite beverage, and fall in love sight unseen—until you meet your fiance face-to-face and realize you’ve made a horrible mistake.
That’s right, it’s time for another season of the hit Netflix reality show, Love Is Blind! While this might seem like a crazy way to meet a spouse, statistically speaking, maybe love actually is blind. Of the 28 couples who’ve been married on the show during its first five seasons, eight are still together. That’s a 28.5% success rate, significantly higher than Married at First Sight.
This means there’s plenty of hope for the 15 men and 15 women jumping into the pods this season, which premieres (appropriately enough) on February 14th. But forget about the participants. A much more important question is: What can viewers expect? Drama, of course, plenty of people to root for and against, and some cringeworthy conversations.
To provide some insight into this season, I watched the first six episodes that drop on Valentines Day. I also did some research into how the show is produced. Prepare for 12 episodes of visually-impaired romance with a ton of factoids, a peek at some of the most interesting characters, and a bevy of out of context quotes from Season 6 of Love Is Blind.
How the Sausage Gets Made
While watching Love Is Blind, it’s hard not to think about all the logistics in hosting 30 people for 10 days as they begin the relationship process. Here are answers to some burning questions.
Are rooms soundproof, how big are they, and where is the show filmed?
Yes, the pods are soundproof. Singles communicate through speakers. Pods are 12 feet by 12 feet and there are 20 of them, 10 for each gender. Couples from this season are all from the Charlotte, North Carolina area, but the pod portion of the show is filmed at a studio in Santa Clarita, California.
Where do singles sleep, go to the bathroom, and get exercise?
Participants sleep in hotel rooms and are escorted back and forth to the studio to prevent them from seeing each other. The lounges, which viewers see plenty of, have a bathroom and a gym, all off camera.
What’s the dating cycle like?
Initially, singles are essentially speed dating with strict rules. At first, everyone gets a chance to know everyone else, but then a matchmaking system is put in place. The trick is, singles are only informed that someone is interested in talking to them but are not told who it is. Participants are only given a time and pod number.
Eventually, contestants can start to stretch the length of dates as the process moves along. Singles can go back and forth to the pods whenever they want and can stay until 3 a.m. According to this feature on the show with Love Is Blind creator Chris Coelen, participants determine how the relationships proceed and are allowed to discuss whatever they want during the 10-day pod period of the four-week experiment.
Why do some singles eat food and play games in pods and others don’t?
Singles are able to share items from home, request special meals, or ask producers to provide games to play. During the episodes of Season 6 available for critics, I saw couples having spaghetti dinners, sushi dinners, playing cards, and taking shots at mini basketball hoops. Other singles just sit and talk.