Love Is Blind: 10 things you probably didn’t know about Netflix’s hit reality dating show: contestants can’t really hear through pod screens, and there’s a strict no phone policy ...
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Now that the second series of Netflix’s popular dating show Love Is Blind has hit our screens, we remember why we were so obsessed the first time round. But the more we watch, the more questions we have. Here are 10 things you probably didn’t already know about it.
1. The pods are completely soundproof
Although the producers originally planned for the pods to be soundproof on just a few sides while allowing sound to pass through the lit-up wall, they found that sound still bled from one pod to another.
To create total privacy for the contestants, they chose to make the entire pod soundproof and had the contestants communicate through speakers instead.
“We basically had a small speaker in the front wall and you would hear the other person who was in the other pod,” co-creator and executive producer Chris Coelen told Variety in 2020. “There’s no producers in there, there’s nobody else. It’s just you and the other person. That’s it.”
2. The contestants plan their dates, not the producers
According to Coelen, contestants had much more input when it came to their relationships than other, more overproduced reality dating shows. He said he wanted to give contestants the chance to control their experiences within the rules of the pods.
“[Contestants would] say, ‘I’d love to have a dinner of lasagna with this person’. So, we’d get them some lasagna!” Coelen told Oprah magazine in 2020. “They could do whatever they wanted, other than to touch each other or see each other … We wanted them to make the decisions and them to control their destiny”
Contestants weren’t given cue cards or specific talking points, either.
As Coelen told Variety, “They were never interrupted in terms of like a producer saying, ‘Hey, talk about this, talk about that,’ they just did what they wanted to do.”