Reality Dating Shows: What’s Love Got to Do With It? These Days, Not a Lot

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Searching for romance on “unscripted” TV? Look elsewhere. The genre has been taken over by hard-hearted schemers

Love Is Blind. Nancy Rodriguez in episode 303 of Love Is Blind. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2022
"Love Is Blind" (Credit: Netflix)

This week was the debut of season three of Netflix’s “Love Is Blind.” If you’ve seen season one and two, you know the drill: Single men and women are sequestered in adjoining “pods” and get to know one another through a series of revolving “dates.” They don’t actually see their prospective mates, just talk to them in increasingly cozy conversations through an opaque partition. Then they get married — or at least engaged and finally meet each other in the flesh.

If you’ve seen season one or two, you know what happens next.

Usually, nothing.

Of the 24 love connections that have so far been made on the show, only two actually tied the knot and just one of those pairs is still together (that’d be Season 1’s Lauren Speed and Cameron Hamilton, who got married on day 40 of the show and last February announced that they were trying to have a baby).

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