After Season 7 proved to be significantly poisonous – with extra drama than love and extra contestants searching for fame over significant connection – the relevance of the experiment on the coronary heart of Love Is Blind has been known as into query. Season 8 of Netflix’s actuality relationship present premiered on February 14, and it seems that viewers are in for one more train in mess and chaos, although it’s too quickly to inform if any love matches will emerge from the inevitable toxicity that may comprise this season. However whereas love and marriage are positioned as the last word aim of the present, there may be one other facet of Love Is Blind that’s equally – if no more – compelling; one which has allowed the sequence to stand out amongst different actuality relationship reveals. It may be present in these deeper discussions that come up between {couples} in and out of doors the pods, as they get to know one another on an expedited timeline, which have resulted within the type of considerate and introspective political and ethical debate that’s seldom seen on actuality TV.

‘Love Is Blind’ Season 8 Is Already Tapping Into These Deeper Conversations

Although usually sandwiched between these of a lesser magnitude (like whether or not Nick Dorka ought to’ve ridden that big plastic duck in Season 7), the sorts of debates that faucet into among the extra socially related points we face as folks have come up earlier than on Love Is Blind – as early as in Season 3 when Nancy Rodriguez and Bartise Bowden expressed disagreements between their views on abortion. This season, Sara Carton, an oncology nurse, and Ben Mezzenga, an actual property agent and developer, devoted a few of their time collectively within the pods to discussing their non secular beliefs and the place they could differ. Sara prompted the dialog by saying, “We talked about your faith. I need to hear extra about that.” Ben defined that he grew up in a “very robust Christian family” and that, “There’s a whole lot of issues I consider in regards to the Bible and I consider in regards to the Christian religion,” summing up his beliefs as, “I consider that there is the one true God that loves us, and that is just about it.”

Sara then shared how her beliefs differ from Ben’s, admitting, “I’m not non secular,” and explaining that her difficulties with organized faith stem from her sister Lisa, who Sara known as her “greatest buddy” and who’s homosexual. Sara additional opened up in regards to the subject, saying, “I discover it actually troublesome to go to a church and apply, when it is like, love thy neighbor, however then it is also like, LGBT goes to go to hell.” It goes with out saying that it is a significantly substantial subject of dialog for a actuality relationship present, one which requires what looks like real vulnerability on behalf of its contributors – one thing that additionally appears to be missing within the realm of actuality TV. By together with these weightier subjects of dialog within the remaining edit, Love Is Blind higher captures the complexity of being human and searching for reference to different people than a lot of its counterparts.

The ‘Love Is Blind’ Experiment Might Not Be Completely Hopeless

Regardless of being characterised by limitless quantities of drama and toxicity, Love Is Blind Season 7 additionally had its share of ethical and political discourse, most notably when Marissa George and Ramses Prashad confronted their differing views concerning Marissa’s navy service. In one of many extra nuanced and considerate conversations ever featured on the present, Marissa and Ramses expressed, over a dinner of “à la dente” pasta, how their contrasting circumstances in life formed their disparate beliefs on the topic – neither of which was objectively proper or mistaken. Offering considerably of a respite from among the different conflicts that made up the season (like when Stephen Richardson was caught sexting with one other lady simply days after turning into engaged to Monica Davis), Marissa and Ramses’ navy debate gave viewers not simply drama, however a compelling glimpse of how two people method such disagreements whereas forming a relationship.

Whereas the experiment on the coronary heart of Love Is Blind could also be failing to provide expedited marriages and lifelong love in current seasons, it continues to yield some surprisingly substantive conversations. These moments by which folks from totally different walks of life are in a position to change differing viewpoints and overtly navigate among the extra complicated beliefs that we, as people, form ourselves and our lives round recommend the present nonetheless has extra to supply than drama and toxicity alone. If Love Is Blind Season 8 sees extra significant connections than the previous few seasons, there might but be hope for the sequence.

Love Is Blind is out there to stream on Netflix within the U.S.