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Aired fall 2024 · The established era's strongest pod experiment

Washington D.C.

Season seven takes the format to Washington, D.C. and produces the best pod experiment since Seattle: a cast that engages the blind-dating premise seriously, connections that carry weight into the engagement phase, and production that gives the experiment room.

Filmed
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Premiered
Oct 2, 2024
Netflix · October 2024
Episodes
13
Format
Pod dating · altar reveal
Thirteen episodes including reunion
Cast size
30 players
15 men and 15 women in the pods
Host
Nick Lachey and Vanessa Lachey
seventh season with Nick and Vanessa Lachey
On this page
  1. 01The take
  2. 02The shape of the season
  3. 03Where it sits in the canon
  4. 05Adjacent in the canon
  5. 06Also appears in
01The take

Washington D.C..

The D.C. cast gives the pods something real to work with.
02The shape of the season

A rhythm worth tracking.

Washington D.C. is the established era's best season and the strongest Love Is Blind has felt since Seattle. The pod phase is where it earns that standing: the cast treats the blind-dating experiment seriously, the connections built before the reveal feel consequential, and the production gives the experiment room. It doesn't reinvent the format, but it runs it at a level the show's founding seasons would recognize. A clear step above the rest of the post-founding batch.

03Where it sits in the canon

The #03 slot.

Slot #03 of 10 in the Love Is Blind Editor's Canon. The seasons on either side show what I ranked it against.

No spoilers. Every page is reviewed before it goes live.
06Also appears in

Cross-references.

Love Is Blind S7 — Washington D.C. — tiered.tv