Love was late, too long, and short on real drama.
“All of you at home, you haven’t missed a thing!”
Such was the promise from co-hostVanessa Lacheyat the beginning of Monday’sLove Is Blindspecial.
Micah keeps it together on ‘Love is Blind’.Netflix
And she wasn’t wrong.
The season 4 reunion ofNetflix’s hit dating show was bloated, haphazard, and short on true drama.
But here’s the thing: So are most reality TV reunions!
The ‘Love is Blind’ season 4 reunion.Netflix
Unfortunately, theLove Is Blindspecial felt particularly underwhelming afterSunday night’s technical disaster.
What a thrill, to press “play” and haveLove Is Blind: The Reunionactually start playing.
But my endorphin rush was short-lived upon seeing the run time: 96 minutes.
Bliss' dad is now “best buds” with Zack!
Tiffany and Brett are still living the “fairy tale”!
before anything of real interest happened.
When Vanessa and her mostly dead-weight co-host (what’s his name again?)
“Sorry, all the pressure’s been off me so I kind of forgot I was here!”
(As did the hosts, apparently.)
Thirty minutes in, we got the first real must-see moment: The arrival of mean girl Irina.
Like all good reality TV villains, she immediately choked up when asked to explain her behavior.
“Sorry, I just need a minute,” she said, as the audience tittered.
It’s hard to reconcile those two things").
“It’s a little bit ineffable,” he said with a sigh.
(I’m guessing that was the first time Ms. Lachey heard that word.)
Alas, what came before that filler the most potentially explosiveLove Is Blindreunion was delivered piecemeal.
It’s baffling to me that Netflix couldn’t convince (compel?)
Jackie and Josh to appear on the reunion live.
