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Aired fall 2022 · The pod experiment at its most strained

Dallas

The third season moves to Dallas and runs the format competently, but the pod phase — the engine the whole show depends on — never generates the depth the premise needs. A watchable season that demonstrates the format's floor more than its ceiling.

Filmed
Dallas, Texas
Dallas · third city, pod chemistry at its weakest
Premiered
Oct 19, 2022
Netflix · October 2022
Episodes
10
Format
Pod dating · altar reveal
The format running without the chemistry it needs
Cast size
30 cast members
15 men and 15 women in the pods
Host
Nick Lachey and Vanessa Lachey
third 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 floor, not the ceiling.

The pods are the whole show, and Dallas is where they work the least.
02The shape of the season

Two seasons within one year.

Dallas is the low point of the founding run. The format holds and the production stays competent, but the pod sequences — where the show either earns its premise or exposes it — never generate the depth the other founding-batch cities manage. The cast's engagement feels shallower here than elsewhere, and that gap is visible throughout. The weakest of the five, but worth a watch for the full franchise arc.

03Where it sits in the canon

The #09 slot.

Slot #09 of 10 in the Love Is Blind Editor's Canon. Ninth and the low point of the founding batch. Dallas is not bad television — the format holds and the production runs competently — but the pod phase, which is the engine the whole show depends on, never generates the depth the premise needs. The cast's engagement with the blind-dating experiment feels shallower here than in any other founding-batch season, and that gap between what the format asks and what the cast delivers is visible across the pod sequences. A season can survive average casting, but it needs the pods to work. In Dallas, they don't quite, and it lands near the bottom accordingly.

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05Also appears in

Cross-references.