Love Is Blind needs to fix its beautiful people problem

Marie Claire

"One of the most frustrating things about Love Is Blind is how it revolves so much around conventional attractiveness," says Anne T. Donahue. "Their age differences, height differences, race differences, varying religious beliefs or life backgrounds are largely trumped by the fact that each of the series’ participants embodies traditional beauty standards. (Hell, some of the contestants are so confident about their looks that they tell us, in the first episode, how hot they know they are and what a catch that makes them.) It arguably reflects the producers’ fear of owning the risks of their 'social experiment' in favor of consciously leaning into the leverage that comes with following a small number of couples who are, well, beautiful. (Even the couples who weren’t shown as much—or at all —were also beautiful.) In fact, everybody on the show, at minimum, is TV-level attractive. Not a soul looks like a Regular Person™. And if they were people we knew in real life and ran into at the grocery store, we’d all exclaim enthusiastically, 'Wow! You look great! Do you just always have your brows filled in?'"

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