Hopes for a happily ever after were abandoned in Season 2 of Love Is Blind.

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The second season of Love Is Blind resoundingly answers the important question of whether it’s a good idea to wed someone you hardly know and have never seen with a resounding “no.”

Love Is Blind’s second season was comparable to dating aversion therapy.

The primary difference between Love Is Blind’s first and second seasons is the degree of its pessimism. And that’s coming from a person who tends to be quite cynical about everyone on the innumerable unfiltered reality shows I enjoy. Instead of creating love pairings to encourage, it seemed like the casting crew, producers, and editors were creating a live-action dating taxonomy of people to avoid.

Contrary to all expectations, the first season of the programme focused on Cameron and Lauren, a strikingly compatible, unusually down-to-earth, and stunningly attractive couple who you couldn’t help but root for. They remain partners today. This season, her fiancé Nick has turned the language of relationship counselling into a weapon, and Danielle is a dubious critic. She accuses him of cheating, and he considers her to be poison. She says she likes to party, and in her closet is a bag full of costumes that reference various foods. She is a nasty, immature person, he tells her as he walks in.

Jessica, the main antagonist from the first season, appeared to take centre stage this time around. Jessica, who was infamous for feeding her dog booze and having a baby voice, had deep feelings for Barnett despite not being in love with the guy she dated. A castmate gave her the moniker “Messica.” Jessica seemed to be acting out the many show phases with her boyfriend, Mark, including living together, getting ready for the wedding, bachelor and bachelorette parties, and bachelor and bachelorette parties in order to give Barnett a “choose me, pick me, love me” speech. Despite the delay in Jessica’s speech, she still had a significant influence on the programme.

Given that Messica’s power was successful in capturing viewers’ interest, I don’t hold it against the show’s creators or producers that they chose four or five enemies. I simply wonder if the series still has any promise after this terrible watch.

Love Is Blind also has to deal with the mortality of its own reality show.

Love Is Blind, which has just had two seasons, is already becoming into more of a platform for its actors to gain notoriety than it is for proving the title’s accuracy. Similar to The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, previous contestants exploited their appearances to build sizable Instagram followings, which they subsequently used to hunt for sponsorships. Due to the fact that they are unable to see their potential romantic relationships, the contestants on Love Is Blind have a slightly unusual situation.

Some of the contestants already seem to disagree with the show’s premise that what’s inside matters: For instance, Shake tries to pick up women to gauge their relative weight, while Shayne gets his conversation partners to describe their bodies in great detail.

It must be said that the programme did an excellent job this season of avoiding choosing Instagram-hungry rivals. The idea that candidates are ignorant to one another’s appearances is undermined by the fact that Love Is Oblivious does not currently have a broader brand or spinoff series tied to it, unlike The Bachelor. These factors may keep the programme more authentic even if the bulk of the main cast members now have social media followings in the hundreds of thousands. It won’t take long for contestants to realize that getting rejected on the show pays handsomely or that a manufactured showmance marriage might be worthwhile if the post-show incentives were high enough. Given this pattern, Season One would seem to be even more of an exception.

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