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Aired winter 2020 · The pod format, assembled live

Atlanta

The original. Love Is Blind invents its format in real time on Netflix: pods where strangers talk without seeing each other, proposals without faces, a first in-person meeting, a wedding-planning sprint, and an altar where the answer is yes or no.

Filmed
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta · the format invented in real time
Premiered
Feb 13, 2020
Netflix · February 2020
Episodes
10
Format
Pod dating · altar reveal
The inaugural run — the format finding its shape
Cast size
30 cast members
15 men and 15 women entering the pods
Host
Nick Lachey and Vanessa Lachey
first season with Nick and Vanessa Lachey
On this page5 sections
  1. 01The take
  2. 02The shape of the season
  3. 03Where it sits in the canon
  4. 04Adjacent in the canon
  5. 05Also appears in
01The take

The rough draft, built live.

Every later season runs from the template this one built.
02The shape of the season

The ten-episode founding order.

Love Is Blind invents its format live in Atlanta: pods, proposals without seeing each other, the first in-person meeting, a wedding sprint, and a yes-or-no altar. The blueprint is rough in places — the production is still learning what the show is, and some pod sequences drag — but every later season builds on what gets assembled here. The format finds itself in real time, and you can watch it happen.

03Where it sits in the canon

The #04 slot.

Slot #04 of 10 in the Love Is Blind Editor's Canon. Fourth because origin matters, but not as much as execution. The Atlanta season had to invent the entire format live — the pods, the cross-pod conversations, the engagement proposal without a face, the first in-person meeting, the wedding-planning sprint, the altar. All of it assembled in real time on Netflix. It is rougher than the seasons that follow; the production is still working out what the show is, and some of the pod sequences drag. But it is the blueprint every later city runs from, and that foundation earns it a higher slot than it might otherwise deserve. You watch the format learn itself, and that is genuinely interesting.

No spoilers. Every page is reviewed before it goes live.
05Also appears in

Cross-references.