Love Is Blind is The Last Jedi of reality shows

Polygon

"At the end of the day, Love Is Blind is a reality show that thrives on drama," says Emily Heller of the buzzworthy Netflix dating reality show. "But the way it evolves into an in-depth exploration of cliché tropes makes it one of the most interesting reality shows currently airing. It’s impressive how it manages to pull off this nuanced take on dating shows while maintaining its delightfully trashy allure. Much in the same way Rian Johnson used 40 years of Star Wars lore and symbols to turn The Last Jedi into a deconstruction of Star Wars baggage, the Love Is Blind producers, knowingly or not, used reality-show tropes to deconstruct a particular style of reality TV. The Last Jedi builds up Rey’s Jedi training as important and monumental, until Yoda’s Force ghost shows up to make the bold claim that she doesn’t need to follow old dogma, and shouldn’t. Love Is Blind doesn’t go so far as to show a beloved character burning down the symbolic epicenter of its lore. (What would that be? The Bachelor mansion? The isolation pods?) But like The Last Jedi, it starts off following an established pattern, then veers off in a different, but still recognizable direction, exploring new facets of old structures."

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