Season 4 is the wildest Love Is Blind season since the first. Let’s discuss

polygon.com:

The pods are open, people are talking, and love is blind — maybe. (It’s the name of the grand “experiment,” after all.) The new, fourth season of Netflix’s Love Is Blind takes the reality show to Seattle (or, at least, it will, following its first five episodes spread across the pod basement and the resort in Mexico). And the results are… wowza.

That’s not always a good thing. While the first few episodes of season 3 were marked with some drama, they have nothing on the chaotic messiness of the season 4 cast. People are making grand declarations about being smitten for so long and then remembering it’s only been six days. Couples fall together and then break up. Pool parties get messy as shit. That’s television, baby.

So what is there to say about all the confounding decisions of Love Is Blind’s season 4 nonsense? A lot, it turns out.

Joshua: Netflix’s reality shows are basically all deranged social experiments, and Love Is Blind is still the best of the bunch. To me, it’s a heteronormative farce: People get engaged sight unseen and then have to grapple with their ideas of what a straight marriage should look like, in addition to regular-ass dating show contrivances like drama between the contestants and the temptation of what might’ve been.

For a show that’s so purely about interpersonal dynamics, Love Is Blind really lives and dies on its cast — season 1 got by on a genuinely earnest relationship that formed, season 2 got by on the strength of an all-time reality TV villain, and season 3 was just kind of… there. This time around, though? Boy howdy. It takes a little bit before you figure out which of the contestants the show will focus on (a lot of folks wash out), but who immediately made an impression on you,