Love is Blind is my comfort show, but I have a bone to pick with season 11

I genuinely look forward to Netflix shows whenever they come out because they’ve been my comfort shows for a while. One long-running Netflix series that I’ve really enjoyed for many years is Love is Blind.

Ironically, I didn’t start watching it until around season 4, but I’ve seen every season. Some seasons are great. Others are bad, but I’ve always been able to sit down and enjoy them in some way.

That's all starting to change with Love is Blind season 11. For some reason, this season has been a sore spot for me, and I have a genuine bone to pick with it because I’m starting to feel less of the love.

The couples don’t feel genuine anymore

I am not in the pods. I don’t know what goes down in there, but every time I’ve watched the couples on this season of the show, I don’t feel anything. The love they profess to have for each other doesn't feel authentic, and that's saying a lot.

My friends know that I am a huge lover-girl. I watch rom-coms and so many other movies that I genuinely believe my perception of love has changed. While I love horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and so many other genres, I will always be a sucker for romance. In most seasons of this Love is Blind, I always find a couple to latch onto. There's always a couple who feels like they are truly into each other and is there for the right reasons.

Usually, for that specific couple, I feel their love is genuine and that there are real feelings there beneath the glitz and glamor of the series itself. This time around, that same feeling didn't come through, and I really believe it’s because most of these contestants are not being genuine in their feelings for their partner.

Several conversations throughout season 11 have made me evaluate how these couples react to certain situations or to the dating pool as a whole. One of the male participants (and I won’t even bother to mention his name because I really don’t like him) was so tone-deaf in the way he was treating two women that he basically lost both of them. We barely see him afterward, even though it felt like we were building up to him being a bigger part of the show.

Moments like that — where it feels like the show caters more to drama than relationships — bother me. Yes, this is a reality show, but the core premise is finding genuine connections beyond looks. And it feels like we’re barely reaching there now.

Love is Blind has lost sight of what it was originally about

This season, the contestants have often talked openly about looks or other things they really shouldn't be getting into. The whole point of this experiment is to see if you can build a genuine connection without knowing what the other person looks like.

When people say the guys are calling you “Kennedy,” or someone says, “Oh, you’re going to regret leaving me,” or whatever, because of how you look, that goes completely against the point of the show. We aren’t supposed to care as much.

If the physical connection doesn’t form after you meet, so what? You move on. Find someone new. End things in the right way. But for some people, the experiment worked in the past and lasted for a while, so why even go against the whole point of the show and hint at what you look like?

Truthfully, we’ve gotten to the point where many contestants show up because they know it will give them the social media exposure I’m sure half of them want. The whole situation between Stew and Jax (where she ghosted him after seeing his looks) really feels as if she was there for publicity. I'm not sure what the truth is, but that's not a cool thing to do whatsoever.

I didn’t even like Stew that much, especially when he mentioned the whole “Kennedy” thing, but I still feel he didn’t deserve that. If we’re so comfortable ghosting people like this, on a major reality show, we shouldn’t be on TV in the first place. This used to be a great dating reality show, but now, it’s slowly falling apart.

I know Love is Blind is a goldmine for Netflix because the series is so popular and available in so many other countries. There are plenty of spinoffs now. I’ve even watched a few, namely Love is Blind U.K. But at the end of the day, if the core show is having issues like this, I can’t see this series lasting much longer.

The ever-expanding world of social media makes it harder for this show to be about genuine connections, and unless something changes — where the people who apply maybe have no social presence at all — then we’re just going to be stuck in this endless loop of fame-chasers.

Either way, I’m still going to watch season 11 and hope something changes down the line, but for now, we can only wait.

You can watch Love is Blind on Netflix. New episodes air weekly on Wednesdays.

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