It’s all about love: What to watch on Netflix this weekend

Love Is Blind

Is love actually blind? Netflix’s new reality show Love Is Blind plans to put that question to the test.

Hosted by Vanessa and Nick Lachey, Love Is Blind is the kind of reality TV that’s half experiment. The show is for singles looking to meet “the one.” Like other reality dating shows, participants will bond through conversation and shared interests that they’ll learn about through the dates they go on.

The catch is that they’ll be dating without actually seeing one another. Once they believe they’ve found the person with whom they want to spend the rest of their lives, they’ll propose and if accepted they’ll finally get to see one another.

But the real work begins when they have to take their relationship out of the bubble their time together has created and straight into the reality of their differing worlds. Physical attraction may be the least of their worries when it comes to an interracial partnership, debt, flared tempers, and the expectations of their families and friends.

Love Is Blind is the kind of popcorn eating and throwing entertainment that’s cathartic in its big sweeping cheesiness and high key potential for drama, secondhand embarrassment, and taking sides.

It may not be everybody’s cup of tea, but that’s the reality of any show that examines love in front of the lens with stakes as high as romance on the fast track and marriage in three weeks. What could possibly go wrong?