Reality T.V., love it, hate it, who cares? I sadly do, and you do too, or else you wouldn't be reading this. This show, however, is a bit desperate. Even more desperate than reality T.V. being a genre of new-age television. The show isn't completely bad, or I wouldn't have watched it. But then again, I am a bored teenager on break from school. (P.S. thank you, New York)

The show Love is Blind is about a bunch of people who desperately want to get married - please take note of this. These people separate themselves from reality by going into pods, where they can't see the physical appearance of who they are talking to and deciding to love. If it goes well, they are engaged in less than or queal to two weeks, then sent off to an engagement retreat in the real world to meet the other couples they dated in the pods, and then sent off to their city to go into the REAL REAL world. The show tests if love is deeper than the physical connection of sight and naturalized behavior, but in actuality, love is not. Love is a fickle fruit, and desperation is a fruit that is widely spread. The people on the show constantly say they want to get married, but not as much as they say I want to get married to this person or that person. It leaves me and other viewers with the beckoning question do you like the idea of marriage instead of being married to a REAL person? 

A person's truest behavior cannot be seen in two weeks, and some people don't even know who they are talking to in the span of three years. Love is about still wanting to be with someone regardless of their flaws and how they counteract your flaws. But there are outliers to this mess, like the couples who ended up having successful marriages after and during the show or the countless traditions outside the western culture of the United States that allow for people to be arranged for marriage sight unseen. Yet the show isn't all about the outliers. While they are important, the show seems commercially produced, and ill-represents love.

The weekly Binge and Review Gives this show a 6/10.  The desperation that's okay to watch but never to follow. #StaySafe.