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(Warning: This post contains spoilers for Love Is Blind Season 6, Episodes 1-6.)
There are many great mysteries in this universe, but for me personally, one will always reign supreme: How do Netflix’s Love Is Blind casting calls always seem to attract the weirdest men alive? From Abhishek “Shake” Chatterjee and his remorseless fatphobia in Season 2 to all the walking red flags in Season 3—including Andrew Liu, who used eye drops to fake cry in front of producers—this show has long been a magnet for absolute dillweeds. (Don’t even get me started about Izzy and his cabinet full of paper plates from Season 5, or we’ll be here all day!)
And yet, like a delusional moth to a flame, I continue to enter each season with fresh hope that history will not repeat itself. “Maybe this time, I’ll be lucky,” I think to myself. “Maybe this time, they won’t have dead plants and toilet flies. Maybe this time, they’ll stay… or at least stay functional.” Alas, Love Is Blind Season 6, which takes our grand experiment to Charlotte, North Carolina, has once again reminded me of the perils that often accompany wishful thinking. This time around, however, bizarre behavior is not solely or even mostly the purview of the men.