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Love Is Blind<\/a><\/p>\n Week 2 (Episodes 7-9) <\/p>\n \n Season 10<\/p>\n Episodes 7 – 9\n <\/p>\n \n Editor\u2019s Rating<\/p>\n 5 stars<\/p>\n *****\n <\/p>\n \n Chris\u2019s villain arc makes for one of the most insulting breakups in Love Is Blind history. Be a part of the\u00a0Love Is Blind Club<\/a>, a subscriber-only newsletter covering the Netflix reality-TV dating show\u2019s tenth season.<\/p>\n Be a part of the\u00a0Love Is Blind Club<\/a>, a subscriber-only newsletter covering the Netflix reality-TV dating show\u2019s tenth season. The biggest development of the week, however, comes from a couple who we don\u2019t see meet each other\u2019s parents or siblings. After Chris says he\u2019s not physically satisfied and points out that he usually dates people who work out more, Jess exercises her right to break up with him. While I hate that this had to come at the expense of her heart, I think his subsequent villain arc is unfortunately exactly the shot of energy this season needed. While some of these couples\u2019 story lines are in danger of starting to feel boring or predictable because they keep having the same problems they\u2019ve had since week one, Chris has the audacity to chart new territory by seemingly trying to steal someone else\u2019s fianc\u00e9e. But before we get to that messy mini cast reunion, let\u2019s back up and walk through what happened, couple by couple:<\/p>\n These two are giving me whiplash. When we pick back up in Mexico, Brittany is tearfully declaring off-camera that Devonta should have left the pods when his grandfather died and that he isn\u2019t ready for this experiment. But he assures her that he\u2019s not always like this, and the next time we see them, they\u2019re in bed grinning about their good communication. Brittany says she values that Devonta is very \u201cChrist-like.\u201d As Tyler pointed out last week, though, Jesus died single \u2026<\/p>\n Still, Devonta does successfully become the first guy Brittany brings home in a decade. Her dad is so charmed that he jokes that he\u2019s about to ask Devonta to marry his daughter. It\u2019s moving when he says Devonta will be his son, especially since we know Devonta\u2019s father wasn\u2019t involved in his life when he was growing up.<\/p>\n Later, when Brittany\u2019s concerns that Devonta isn\u2019t attracted to her resurface, he explains that he felt like changing his behavior after she confronted him in Mexico would feel forced or insincere. Thankfully, he does finally end up complimenting her physical appearance (including her \u201cvolumptious\u201d lashes). It feels genuine. But just when I\u2019m starting to feel hopeful again, next week\u2019s preview gives me pause: Brittany is scared because she thinks her feelings are stronger, Devonta is asking to be left alone, and she thinks it feels like he has a \u201cbackup plan.\u201d Yikes!<\/p>\n Christine\u2019s mom seems to fall in love with Vic almost as quickly as her daughter did. She gives a glowing review of her potential future son-in-law\u2019s personality in a confessional after she meets (and prays with) him. \u201cI thought he was hot,\u201d she adds bashfully.<\/p>\n We see Vic and Christine have a candid conversation about what it would mean to raise biracial children in a world that isn\u2019t colorblind, and we learn that they\u2019ve decided to wait two years before they get a house or start a family. There\u2019s a vloglike aspect to some of their other scenes that makes their relationship feel less produced and more intimate: It feels like we\u2019re watching over FaceTime when Vic gives Christine a mini-tour of his campus. The same thing goes for the footage we get of Christine driving him to her rural hometown \u2014\u00a0a vulnerable act for her \u2014\u00a0and showing him everywhere from the parking lots she used to hang out in to the hospital where she was born. The edit is making me feel so optimistic about this relationship that I don\u2019t even feel worried when the preview teases a conversation where they discuss \u201cinsecurities coming out a little bit.\u201d Whatever it is, I think they can handle it.<\/p>\n The most intense family meeting of this week comes courtesy of Ashley\u2019s dad, a lawyer, who grills Alex over dinner about his family, r\u00e9sum\u00e9, knowledge of cryptocurrency, and more. (It\u2019s\u00a0truly an incredible one-two punch when Alex says that he didn\u2019t vote, then asserts that he \u201cabsolutely\u201d would\u2019ve voted for Trump if he had.) Ashley\u2019s dad doesn\u2019t trust that Alex is being honest with his answers and isn\u2019t afraid to say so.<\/p>\n While it may feel like a bit much for a first meeting \u2014 at one point, Ashley\u2019s brother apologizes for his dad \u2014 the conversation is genuinely helpful from a viewer\u2019s perspective. The Lacheys should low-key study this interrogation before this season\u2019s reunion. Have we ever heard Alex go this long without talking about soccer? I have a much better sense of just how much he\u2019s traveled and how many different jobs he\u2019s had.<\/p>\n It\u2019s all helpful context for when Alex tells Ashley back at their apartment that he\u2019s gotten an offer to coach soccer in Florida, which he views as a perfect place for a conservative couple like them to move. He seems to want to lock the opportunity in quickly, and Ashley ends up feeling the need to deny that she\u2019s trying to \u201ctrap\u201d him in Cleveland. This escalates into a fight about water-bottle placement in the fridge and the fact that they haven\u2019t had sex since leaving Mexico. Alex apparently likes to back off when a woman is on her period \u2014 or ovulating, because he\u2019s scared of an accidental pregnancy.<\/p>\n Ashley steps out to compose herself before coming back to tell Alex that she will be less \u201ccrazy\u201d about cleaning and more open with him about her menstrual cycle, work on initiating sex more, and see about applying to different companies even though she\u2019d like to stay with her current one. Alex says he will work on doing more to initiate sex. The next time we see them, they\u2019re cheerfully making innuendos about holes while golfing.<\/p>\n Ashley tells us that her sexual frustrations may have been addressed, but does she feel like she knows him and trusts him enough to move to Florida with Alex? I\u2019m not convinced. When Ashley meets Alex\u2019s mom, a truck driver who seems even more nomadic and spontaneous than her son, she\u2019s left with questions about his past. Once she and Alex are alone again, Ashley channels her dad and questions the timelines of Alex\u2019s relationships, including an ex that he\u2019s still friends with. She eventually gets Alex to admit that he once flew to Texas to hook up with someone as a way to soothe his own ego after another girl broke up with him. Both Ashley and Alex have been cheated on, and he says that he won\u2019t cheat on her. Still, the preview is pretty quick to remind us that his type is a brunette with brown eyes \u2026<\/p>\n It sounds like Emma and Mike do have other issues to address \u2014 they have differing organizational habits, and Emma may have to make a career decision based on how \u201csolid\u201d she feels about Mike \u2014 but it all pales in comparison to the question of whether Emma is ready to have kids. Unsurprisingly, that\u2019s the main topic of conversation when they meet each other\u2019s families.<\/p>\n It\u2019s funny that Mike\u2019s mom has the same amount of polite conviction in her voice when she\u2019s clarifying the difference between sauce and gravy as she does when she\u2019s questioning why Emma is on the fence about having kids. Hearing about Emma\u2019s surgery history does seem to help this big Italian family understand why she might have reservations about giving Mike\u2019s siblings more cousins to hang out with. But I also notice that Emma doesn\u2019t tell them that she just might not be sold on the concept of starting a family in general, medical reasons aside.<\/p>\n That comes across more when Mike meets Emma\u2019s family, who burst into laughter when she quips that she doesn\u2019t have any maternal instincts. They seem most worried about whether she is ready to give up as much of her life as being a mom requires. (The fact that Emma has concerns related to her scars and how difficult it was for her to grow up feeling different is apparently news to them.) Mike tries to make a case by arguing that Emma is a great dog mom, though his point gets a little lost when he ends up pointing out that puppies and babies require different amounts of care. Another argument of his backfires when one of Emma\u2019s sisters admits that although she loves her kids, she wouldn\u2019t choose to be a mom if she could redo her life.<\/p>\n But since getting back from Mexico, Mike has realized that starting a family is a nonnegotiable for him. He doesn\u2019t want to marry her if she might change her mind and grow to resent him or their child. At the same time, it feels impossible to expect her to fully commit to motherhood in three weeks. I think she knows that, he knows that, and their families know that. We\u2019re all just waiting to see if it somehow happens anyway, I guess?<\/p>\n I remain unconvinced that there\u2019s enough time for these two to fully prepare for the logistics of what their marriage would look like. Amber has a great \u201creunitation\u201d with her 7-year-old daughter, Emma, and Jordan has a \u201cproductive\u201d meeting with Emma\u2019s dad. But Jordan still hasn\u2019t met Emma, much less experienced what it would be like to live with her. He and Amber also will have to figure out their living arrangements\u00a0\u2014 Jordan doesn\u2019t want to move out of his bachelor pad with rotting bananas and into the home that Amber has been renovating for seven years in a good school district for Emma. He wants them to find a new place together.<\/p>\n Amber\u2019s brother takes in the fact that Jordan never thought about having kids before Amber, but ultimately doesn\u2019t grill Jordan too much. The tone is similarly light when Amber meets Jordan\u2019s family. His sisters assure him that he doesn\u2019t need to worry about whether Emma is going to like him. But based on the tense-looking glimpses of this couple in next week\u2019s preview, I\u2019m wondering if we should start worrying about whether he\u2019s going to like Emma (or more specifically, being Emma\u2019s stepdad).<\/p>\n Is Bri too mean to Connor? It seems like they\u2019re both still trying to figure that out. She frequently describes him as a \u201cboy\u201d or a frat bro who doesn\u2019t know how to clean. There\u2019s a sense that she kind of wants people to laugh at Connor because he has Christmas decorations up when it\u2019s almost Easter, or a keg at his house with a door lock that she can easily break through. Bri tells her mom she\u2019s not sure whether she needs someone who\u2019s as much or more of a \u201cgo-getter\u201d as she is. At this point, she\u2019s not confident enough to introduce Connor to her dad.<\/p>\n Still, Bri does often emphasize how much it means to her that Connor shows up for her emotionally. When she meets his family, she projects a lot of confidence in their relationship. I\u2019m personally not that convinced that their connection is as unique and fated as they seem to think \u2014 she can\u2019t be the only University of Michigan graduate in Ohio, for instance \u2014\u00a0but she tells Connor\u2019s family that if it wasn\u2019t him, it was \u201cnobody.\u201d Hmm \u2026 not even Chris?<\/p>\n And to think that for a second, my main concern for this couple was whether Jess\u2019s dogs would get along with Chris\u2019s cute cat! Before we have time to fully process some clear communication issues surrounding Chris\u2019s decision not to come home one night, he decides it\u2019s time to come clean about the underlying problem. He tells Jess the physical connection isn\u2019t working for him, and he\u2019s used to dating people who do CrossFit or Pilates every day.<\/p>\n And look, Chris shouldn\u2019t fake it if he\u2019s not feeling it. But to tie this issue to how often Jess goes to the gym is wild. (Mind you, she was never dishonest about that in the pods, and he specifically dismissed that concern when she wondered in Mexico if he only dated gym rats.) He also confesses that he\u2019s been thinking about what it would be like with his No. 2 person, and switches to past tense when he claims that what he \u201cfelt\u201d for Jess in the pods was real. Yet he has the nerve to look confused when Jess doesn\u2019t want to keep trying \u2026 which would mean, what, trying to change her body so he can figure out if he can love her and stop thinking about Bri? Jess sees Chris\u2019s request for how insulting it is, and tearfully says in a confessional that she doesn\u2019t want to be with someone who doesn\u2019t make her life better. Meanwhile, Chris says in a confessional that looks won\u2019t matter when you\u2019re 90 \u2026 but he\u2019s not 90 right now.<\/p>\n After the breakup, Chris texts Connor at the same time that Jess texts Bri. When Chris later meets up with Connor, he makes it sound like Jess is at fault for not wanting to work on the relationship. Connor suggests that Chris try to win her back with a letter, and the pair even joke about going on a double date with Bri and Jess. The fact that Connor seems to genuinely be rooting for Chris\u2019s happiness just makes what happens next sting even more.<\/p>\n When members of the pod squad reunite to go bowling, Chris and Jess\u2019s breakup is clearly the hot goss of the night. When Jess shows up, the women loudly start proclaiming that her body is tea and she must be working out. \u201cThey all hate me, bro,\u201d Chris says, before dropping his catchphrase of the night: \u201cI don\u2019t give a flying fuck.\u201d<\/p>\n On the first night that he was single again, Chris apparently made an Instagram account \u2014 with allegedly paid-for followers \u2014 and started posting from a strip club. Bri casually admits that after the breakup, Chris sent her a friend request, DM\u2019d her \u201coh yeah,\u201d and asked to call her. She says she showed Connor and didn\u2019t engage because she is engaged. She also mentions that Chris told Connor that he goes for 21- to 25-year-olds. Every detail just pisses the other women off more. I didn\u2019t realize that Amber got down like this! When she calls Chris too short to be this cocky, it\u2019s actually one of the politest, least profane things she has to say about him. To his face, she later scoffs, \u201cYou think you\u2019re gonna get another hot doctor?\u201d<\/p>\n Even though Bri is the first person to hug Jess when she shows up, she seems to be trying to see Chris\u2019s point of view of the breakup. Although she does tell Chris to lower his voice after he callously and completely unnecessarily describes sex with Jess as \u201cthe worst shit I\u2019ve ever had in my life,\u201d she also still maintains that she\u2019s \u201con nobody\u2019s side.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, we know Chris thinks Bri is hot. He\u2019s not worried about Connor because he looks down on him as too \u201csubmissive.\u201d When Bri reveals one-on-one that she\u2019s now gotten to a place where she is planning to introduce Connor to her dad, Chris literally laughs at the idea of him meeting a \u201clegit man.\u201d I don\u2019t get why Bri feels the need to tell Chris that Connor is not the best sex she\u2019s ever had. When Chris point-blank says that Bri needs someone more dominant and that he wants it to be him, Bri replies, \u201cStop.\u201d But she sticks around long enough for Chris to suggest that he regrets not proposing to her. Maybe one thing Bri and Chris have in common is that they don\u2019t respect Connor that much.<\/p>\n Who\u2019s getting married? I admittedly sent this poll out late, so a few of my co-workers pulled an Alex and didn\u2019t vote in this week\u2019s compatibility rankings. But here we are:<\/p>\n \ud83e\udd47Christine and Vic (100%)<\/p>\n \ud83e\udd48Amber and Jordan (67%)<\/p>\n \ud83e\udd49Emma and Mike (33%)<\/p>\n \ud83e\udd49Bri and Connor (33%)<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc80 Brittany and Devonta (0%)<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc80 Ashley and Alex (0%)<\/p>\n \u26b0\ufe0fJessica and Chris \u2014 (n\/a)<\/p>\n Christine and Vic, you\u2019re our only hope!<\/p>\n Villain of the week: It\u2019s a three-way tie between Chris, Alex, and Pilates.<\/p>\n \u2022 I just can\u2019t take Chris\u2019s alpha-male shtick seriously when he reminds me so strongly of Stuart Little. He looks like he should be nibbling on cheese and wearing a nice sweater, not doing ice plunges and criticizing women\u2019s bodies.<\/p>\n \u2022 When Keya and Kevan come to the mini-reunion, we know who they are. But Priyanka\u2019s presence at the reunion is intriguing since we didn\u2019t follow her relationships in the pods. After Alex reveals that Priyanka was in his Chicago friend group, I\u2019m wondering whether she has any tea to share about him and that Chicago ex \u2026<\/p>\n Sign up for Love Is Blind Club<\/p>\n Watch and dissect the tenth installment of reality-TV\u2019s great \u201cexperiment\u201d alongside New York\u2019s writers and editors.<\/p>\n Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s time to handle some family matters. Our seven couples are back from their bae-cations to check out each other\u2019s homes in Ohio and try to make a good first impression on their potential in-laws. Some relatives keep these conversations fairly surface level, while others are cross-examining so intensely that they might as well be auditioning for a cameo on All\u2019s Fair<\/a>.<\/p>\n