Warning: This article contains spoilers aboutLove Is Blindseason 4, episodes 1-5.
Love Is Blindhas always been messy, butseason 4takes the mess to a whole new level.
And that’s becauseLove Is Blindofficially has its first reality TV villains.

Micah on ‘Love Is Blind’ season 4.Netflix
Of course they’re going to bond!
When Zack and Irina break up, he immediately tries to win back Bliss).
On the show, Micah and Irina act as if they DGAF about anyone else but themselves.

Irina.Netflix
But do they still feel that way now?
“For us, it was really helpful to have a little sense of normalcy,” Micah says.
Because you’re a part of this experience that is so beyond words.

Micah and Irina.Netflix
Micah adds that she and Irina are “just people.
[She] and I are both in our mid-twenties.
We’re just doing the best we can do.
We just have to grow up from our mistakes.”
Irina says that she was “in her own lane” during that time in the pods.
“Everything was difficult.
Everyone was experiencing the whole show in a different way,” she says.
“Me and Micah’s coping mechanism was laughing about it.
[Hearing] that I hurt people’s feelings genuinely breaks my heart.”
We didn’t intend to be mean or intentionally hurt anybody at all.
“But also, this is one month of my life,” she says.
“I do believe that I was myself.
“Flirting with Paul in the pool, that was not who I am.
That’s not my character,” Irina says.
And I didn’t have that with Zack.”
“And I obviously regret that was my best friend’s [fiance].
So was Irina ever actually in love with Zack after the pods?
Or was it over the moment she saw him?
“I would say there was a little bit of a buildup,” she says.
He was by far the best person that I met in there when I was talking to him.
I knew it was going to be hard for me.
I knew I was going to have a hard time adjusting to it.”
I kept saying, ‘I want to be friends with him.
Love Is Blindseason 4 debuts new episodes Fridays on Netflix.