Will the Love Is Blind Season 5 Reunion Be Live?

The dwell “Love Is Blind” season 4 reunion was a logistical sh*t present, to say the least. Following passionate suggestions from pissed off viewers, Netflix introduced that the season 5 reunion is not going to be live-streamed. Instead, the prerecorded reunion particular will premiere on Oct. 15 at 5 p.m. PT (8 p.m. ET).

While dwell tv is well-suited for award exhibits and halftime performances, enable us to refresh your reminiscence about the chaos that ensued throughout final season’s “Love Is Blind” reunion.

The season 4 “Love Is Blind” reunion was initially meant to be a dwell occasion, capturing the unfiltered dialogue between a few of our favourite {couples} and the season’s most notable exes. But the drama would unfold nicely earlier than the reunion really started. Viewers on all coasts tuned in for the dwell reunion at the introduced begin time on April 16, and over an hour later, Netflix introduced that the episode can be premiering later than anticipated. The reunion was finally delayed 19 hours and did not premiere till April 17, a day later than promised.

The delayed begin time despatched a number of devoted followers in a frenzy, with many staying up late or waking up early in the hopes of catching the reunion as quickly as attainable. “To everyone who stayed up late, woke up early, gave up their Sunday afternoon . . . we are incredibly sorry that the ‘Love is Blind’ Live Reunion did not turn out as we had planned. We’re filming it now and we’ll have it on Netflix as soon as humanly possible,” the streamer previously posted concerning the technical issue. “Again, thank you and sorry.”

Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter three months after the incident, the present’s creator, Chris Coelen, mentioned the reunion snafu was painful for him to look at, too. “Normally in that situation, I’d be in the control room,” he mentioned. “I’d be in the host’s ear. And I wasn’t. I lost my mind. I was sitting in front of my TV like, ‘What is happening? Give me the updates. What’s going on?'” Coelen added that the concept to host a dwell reunion particular initially got here from Netflix “and we all had some misgivings about it.”

Though the season 4 reunion was finally unsuccessful, it appears the streaming platform is studying from its previous errors. With much less room for error, the season 5 “Love Is Blind” reunion may not be as messy as the final, however chaos is unquestionably nonetheless in the playing cards for some {couples}. And after an underwhelming season total, we’re greater than able to drink up any post-season revelations, gold wine glass in hand.