Welcome to Popcast Deluxe, your 70% grasp on the English language of weekly cultural review.

I'm John Caramonica, a critic at the New York Times.

I'm Joc Oscar Ali, I'm a reporter at the New York Times.

Theme week, some interesting things happening in reality television,

a passion of ours.

This is a passion of ours. We're going to be talking about the most recent

season of Love is Blind, season of Traders, currency of Survivor, some big picture

reality TV ideas. This is your comfort, I know there's a lot of comfort for you.

Oh yeah. Yeah. Are we in a new golden age of reality television? It's a real, it's a

legitimately fair question. I can only possibly assess that question by

Taking a sip from the popcast mug. Yeah on Zazz. I think we're in a new age of

sentience about reality television. It's really like reality television has come

alive. I do think like the intersection of real life and reality

TV the way that those timelines play with each other has created a new framework

for what a reality television show actually is, particularly in the dating space.

So also in the traders space? Yes, absolutely. Lots of social media.

Which I know less about. I know more of the

participants. Yeah exactly and that's really what we're seeing. We're

seeing participant participation in social media but also discovery fan

stockings etc. So should we start with Love is Blind?

This is scary. It is scary. This is the rest of my life.

Time will tell if I'm bride to be not.

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