Spoiler warning: The “Love Is Blind” season 4 reunion will be discussed in this post and in great detail in the podcast! You’ve been warned!

Also, we attempted to be as up to date as possible on all of the tea trickling out post-reunion, but of course we had to take time to edit this episode, and in the intervening hours, Jackie released this apology on Instagram for the “disparaging remarks” she made about Marshall. (The word “homophobic” was not used.)

Hell hath no fury like a Netflix audience scorned by a “live” television event.

After heavily — heavily! — promoting the “Love Is Blind” season 4 *LIVE* finale, millions tried to access the live feed at 8pm EST on Sunday night and were met with… an error message. It was a reload, stare at a purple title card (first “It’s almost time! The live event will start soon,” and later, “There’s an issue with the livestream. Hang tight! We’re trying to fix it as soon as possible.”), watch it load again, get another error message, do the whole thing again, kind of night. This went on for more than an hour before just a segment of Netflix users were able to access the live feed.

When people finally got access to the reunion — either like us, in the middle of the livestream, or at 12pm PST the following day — it was… underwhelming. The cast members all seemed extremely anxious, made even worse by the fact that they had evidently been sitting around on stage for more than an hour in full hair and makeup, unable to get this show on the road. Jackie and Josh weren’t there, because of safety concerns, allegedly, though this went completely unexplained. Marshall had to speak in monologue to no one in order to rebut Jackie’s pre-taped criticisms. Our shining romantic heroes Brett and Tiffany barely spoke. Zack tried to chaotically defend Paul from Micah’s rather tepid criticisms, and Vanessa kept cutting everyone off. Plus, the baby pressure! The weird, creepy, I’m-gonna-invade-your-uterus-at-any-moment baby pressure! As TV writer/producer Francesca Ramsey pointed out on TikTok, the mark of a good host isn’t just someone who knows how to talk, but someone who knows how to listen.

We did learn that all three married couples are still together. (Hooray! We love love!) But this entire reunion truly could have been an email.

And yet… we did talk about it for two hours, including hopping back on to discuss Jackie chaotically posting “receipts” left and right. Hope you enjoy! Xo

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