Culture chat: 'Love is Blind: UK'
Life and Art from FT Weekend
Forhecz Topher
4.6 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
This week, we discuss the TV show 'Love is Blind: UK'. It’s one of Netflix’s most popular reality series. The show follows singles as they flirt through a wall and fall in love without seeing each other first. They are only allowed to meet face-to-face once they are engaged. What does the show's popularity say about modern dating, and where reality TV is today? Why do we indulge in 'guilty pleasures'? Guest host Lulu Smyth is joined by HTSI deputy editor Louis Wise and the FT magazine’s food and drink editor Harriet Fitch Little to find out.
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Links (all FT links get you past the paywall):
– Harriet’s guest host podcast about how to make the perfect martini is here.
– Harriet’s recommendation is set dinners, and she recommends Quality Wines in Farringdon.
– Lulu recommends a random literary pilgrimage. For John Milton fangirls, keep an eye out for Orlando Reade’s book 'What in Me is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost', out in November 2024.
– Harriet Fitch-Little is on Instagram @huffffle and on X @HarrietFL.
– Louis Wise is on Instagram @louisquinze and on X @louismwise.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Life and Art from FT Weekend. I'm Lulu Smith, in for Lila Raptopoulos, and this is our Friday |
| 0:07.8 | chat show. Today we are talking about Love is Blind UK. For the uninitiated, Love is Blind |
| 0:14.2 | show in which strangers flirt through a wall. They spend several weeks in quote-unquote blind pods and can |
| 0:20.7 | only meet in person after they are |
| 0:22.4 | engaged. Netflix released the first season of the American show in 2020 and since then there have |
| 0:27.7 | been several international versions. This is the first UK season of Love is Blind and today we're |
| 0:32.7 | going to talk about it. I'm Lulu. I'm coming to you through the airwaves sight unseen and I'm just doing this for the |
| 0:38.2 | fame. Joining me from the pods, also known as the London studio, we have HTSI's deputy editor. He is also |
| 0:45.0 | a funeral director in his spare time, but don't worry, he's not going to embalm you. It's Louis |
| 0:50.0 | wise. Hi, Louis. Hi, how are you? Also with me, she's been gratitude journaling ahead of this |
| 0:55.1 | episode. It's the FT Magazine's Food and Drink editor and recent guest host of this podcast, Harriet Bichlittle. |
| 1:01.6 | Hello, I'm so happy to be here so we can torpedo our professional reputations together. |
| 1:07.4 | They're doing a public service. So let's get into the show. I should also say this is the first time that we're doing a public service. |
| 1:12.7 | So let's get into the show. |
| 1:16.3 | I should also say this is the first time that we're doing a reality show on this podcast. |
| 1:20.8 | So, yeah, I am excited and anxious. You made it happen. |
| 1:23.2 | Finally, it's come to light. |
| 1:25.4 | The first four episodes were released on the 7th of August. This |
| 1:29.6 | Wednesday, Netflix released four more. But in order to avoid spawning anything that's happened in |
| 1:34.8 | the last day and a half, I think we'll just stick to that first batch of episodes one to four. |
| 1:39.9 | Harry, Topline, what do you think of the season so far? Well, I think this is a fundamentally very silly show. |
| 1:46.6 | And coming here to talk about it, it's forced me to do something that I would never normally do, |
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