Read This: There’s yet another exposé on Love Is Blind's toxic environment
A new piece delves further into the allegations about the twisted psychological experiment of Love Is Blind
Love Is Blind continues to be a fairly popular Netflix reality series as well as a fairly controversial breeding ground for some of reality television’s nascent organizing efforts. Previous contestants have accused Netflix and the show’s production companies (Kinetic Content and Delirium TV) of abuse, neglect, and flat-out psychological torture. Some of them have even filed lawsuits alleging as much. Now, The New Yorker’s Emily Nussbaum has provided a new and detailed behind-the-scenes look under the hood at the dating show, an attempt to get to the bottom of the question, “Is Love Is Blind a toxic workplace?”
Short answer: Sure seems like it! The New Yorker piece gets into some of the stories that never made it to screen, like that of Jeremy Hartwell and Renee Poche, two contestants who were largely excluded from the final cut of their seasons and who went on to file lawsuits against the show. In Hartwell’s case, he left filming early (not of his own volition, he claims) after having what is described as a mental breakdown, one that included a full 12-hour period unaccounted for that he now attempts to explain as “vague, dark shadows of despair.” (A therapist told him it sounded like a “fugue state.”)