Accessibility links
We Did It, You Guys, We Watched 'Love Is Blind' : Pop Culture Happy Hour The Netflix plan to take over television has extended to dating shows for a while. But perhaps they've never made one so weird, so baffling, so cringe-inducingly embarrassing for everyone involved as Love Is Blind. And you probably know someone who's watching it. In this series they insist on calling an experiment, couples sit in separate cells that they call pods, where they can hear each other but not see each other. And once they've had a conversation or two, if they're getting along, they get engaged. And only then do they meet. Will any of them make it to the altar?

Review

Pop Culture Happy Hour

We Did It, You Guys, We Watched 'Love Is Blind'

We Did It, You Guys, We Watched 'Love Is Blind'

Listen · 22:17
  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/809580962/809955735" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
Enlarge this image

Jessica, one of the contestants on Netflix's reality dating series, Love Is Blind. Netflix hide caption

toggle caption
Netflix

Jessica, one of the contestants on Netflix's reality dating series, Love Is Blind.

Netflix

The Netflix plan to take over television has extended to dating shows for a while. But perhaps they've never made one so weird, so baffling, so cringe-inducingly embarrassing for everyone involved as Love Is Blind. And you probably know someone who's watching it. In this series they insist on calling an experiment, couples sit in separate cells that they call pods, where they can hear each other but not see each other. And once they've had a conversation or two, if they're getting along, they get engaged. And only then do they meet. Will any of them make it to the altar?

Show Notes:

The audio was produced and edited by Jessica Reedy and Mike Katzif.

Correction Feb. 28, 2020

In an earlier version of this episode, we said Nyashinski is a Nigerian musician. He is Kenyan, not Nigerian.