Is Love Blind?

About Is Love Blind?

Neil and Shelly watch Love Is Blind so you don't have to argue about it alone. Each week they break down the pods, the dates, and the altar decisions, and try to figure out what any of it says about how people actually fall for each other. Neil spots a red flag from across the room. Shelly wants to know why everyone ignored it anyway. Expect real disagreements, a running count of the season's worst decisions, and the two of them occasionally turning the mirror on their own dating lives.

Publisher

Neil and Shelly

Category

tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

11 Apr 2023

Latest episode

11 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

76 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   11 Sept 2026

   Love is Blind UK - Season 3 - Weddings and Reunion

   The weddings and the reunion, all in one go. Neil and Shelly went in expecting the usual chaos and came out genuinely underwhelmed, which turned into a better conversation than the drama would have. Full spoilers for the back half of Love Is Blind UK season 3. Shelly's opening position is that this was anticlimactic. Nobody blew up, nobody stormed out, and the reunion had none of the score settling the American version runs on. Neil's read is more suspicious than disappointed. Sammy said, close to a direct quote, that none of the other couples lasted more than a day. So how did the producers land on five that made it to the altar? Either the casting is unnervingly good, or the couples who were not going to be interesting got quietly cut before anyone saw them. Then it goes couple by couple. Ryan and Cuba is where the standout moment lives. She is visibly upset in the middle of a breakup, and his response is to go cut himself a mango, offer her some, and eat it. Yasmin and Jordan turns into the sharpest advice in the episode, because Jordan keeps describing what she does for him and it sounds a lot less like a partner and a lot more like unpaid therapy. Sophie and Taylor got the predictable ending, though her dad said out loud what everyone was already thinking about the timeline. Ciara and Ajay get the most rethinking. Neil has spent two episodes calling her materialistic and lands somewhere more forgiving, partly on the brat theory and partly because the smartest thing either of them did was vanish to Melbourne for six months with no cameras. Francesca and Joseph got married and remain, by both hosts' assessment, hard to know, because every scene they were in belonged to somebody else's drama. And Jack does the one thing that ends any argument about whether he was serious, which is turn off his location. Moments worth staying for: The mango. She is crying about the breakup and he cuts fruit. "Are you sure you don't just need a therapist?" On Jordan describing what Yasmin does for him. None of the cut couples lasted more than a day, and what that says about how this show is really assembled. Six months in Melbourne with no cameras, and why that was the best decision anyone made this season. Turning off Find My Friends is not a neutral act, and nobody believed it was. They close on wanting Jimmy from the American version airlifted onto UK Traitors, which remains the best idea this podcast has had. Chapters: 0:00 Underwhelmed by the weddings 3:50 Sammy, the cut couples, and Ryan and Cuba 14:36 He ate a mango mid-breakup 20:33 Yasmin and Jordan 23:43 She is not your therapist 30:04 Sophie and Taylor 31:19 Her dad said it was too fast 36:55 The brat theory 42:14 Six months in Melbourne 44:10 Francesca and Joseph 48:01 Jack and Faye 54:15 He turned off his location 56:36 Overall season verdict Is Love Blind is a reality dating podcast hosted by Neil and Shelly, covering Love Is Blind UK, US, and whatever else the genre throws at us. Watch the video version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@isloveblindpodcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-love-blind/id1681899082 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/isloveblindpodcast TikTok: @isloveblindtiktok

2. 

   27 Aug 2026

   Love is Blind UK - Season 3 - The Couples

   Netflix dropped the rest of Love Is Blind UK season three in one go, so we went through episodes three to eight couple by couple. The wedding episodes are not covered here, those are next. Full spoilers throughout for everything up to the weddings. This is Shelly's first non-American reality show, and the thing that threw her is how calm it is. She kept waiting for someone to fly into a rage and nobody did. People disagree, get upset, and then land on some version of we can agree to disagree and move on. No yelling, no drinks thrown. Neil's counterpoint runs through the whole episode. He thinks the UK version is just as toxic, only quieter. Nobody is having the real conversation. What you get instead is the backhanded compliment, the subtle undermining, the thing said politely that would start a fight if anyone said it plainly. Calm is not the same as healthy. Then we go couple by couple. Sophie and Taylor stay the boring golden couple, and the running joke about him being the number one tour guide in London does not get old. Yasmin and Jordan is where it turns uncomfortable, because he cancelled the wedding without ever saying he did not want her, and we both think that is worse rather than kinder. Ciara and Ajay is the money argument again, this time about what her minimum expectation for a first date actually tells you, and Neil ends up admitting Ajay is doing the small things right. Ryan and Cuba produces the sharpest read of the night: Ryan explains he needs days to recover after performing, and Neil points out that Cirque du Soleil does it seven nights a week in Vegas. Jack and Faye is the disaster, and it is worth the wait. The Find My Friends explanation, the walk that somehow needed an Uber home, and a phone he would not let her look at. Neil lays out how you know when someone is lying, which is that the story makes no logical sense and they keep telling it anyway. Joseph and Francesca closes things out with the messiest scene of the season and a piece of advice worth more than the episode: if you are trying to logic someone into liking you, you have already lost. Chapters: 0:00 Eight episodes, and nobody throws a drink 7:28 Sophie and Taylor 12:07 Yasmin and Jordan 20:14 He cancelled the wedding, not the relationship 25:07 Ciara and Ajay 27:29 Her minimum for a first date 35:27 He makes her coffee every morning 39:14 Ryan and Cuba 40:43 Cirque du Soleil works seven nights a week 51:04 Narcissists latch onto spirituality 54:38 Jack and Faye 57:46 It is called going off grid 61:08 The gym story nobody believed 72:03 Joseph and Francesca 74:26 Do not logic someone into liking you 81:46 What we are covering next Coming up: the wedding episodes, then a reunion, then Love Is Blind US in October. Is Love Blind? is Neil and Shelly talking through dating reality television, week by week. Video version and clips: https://www.youtube.com/@isloveblindpodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/isloveblindpodcast TikTok: @isloveblindtiktok Got a dating story or a question for a future episode? Send it over.

3. 

   27 Aug 2026

   Love is Blind UK - Season 3 - The Pods

   Netflix dropped eight episodes of Love Is Blind UK season three at once, so we turned around the pods in a couple of days. Heads up: full spoilers for episodes one to four throughout. This season plays differently, and it took us most of the episode to work out why. Nobody throws a drink. Nobody is a straightforward villain. We kept waiting for the usual reality TV detonation and it never arrived. Neil's theory is that the UK version is still on its season three arc, the same place the American show sat before it learned to milk the format. Shelly thinks the British cast is simply calmer. Either way the drama has to come from people genuinely being difficult, rather than from producers pushing them into it. Then we go couple by couple. Sophie and Taylor got engaged in episode two and never looked at anyone else, which makes them the boring golden couple and probably the safest bet on the board. Jordan and Yasmin are the other contender, and Neil has one reservation about a first serious relationship running straight into an engagement. Cuba and Ryan have almost too much in common, both deep in the spiritual scene, and we cannot decide whether that is compatibility or a warning sign. Francesca and Joseph got where they are through Chevanique, who fought for him after he had already chosen. The money argument is where we split. Ciara is direct about what she expects a partner to spend. Ajay was equally direct that he has left a finance job and does not yet know what is next. Shelly hears two people being honest with each other and choosing to stay anyway. Neil keeps returning to what she offers in return, and does not accept being pretty as the answer. We do not resolve it, and we are not pretending to. Most of the back half is Jack. Neil describes him as weaponized ADHD, then immediately turns it on himself, because he has it too and does not think it excuses any of this. Jack decided Ciara was his number one, heard what he wanted to hear when she was careful not to say it, then wrote a poem for Faye the same night. At one point he called her Fran, and neither of us is confident he knows there is a Francesca on the show. And then he showed up to meet his fiancee in an untucked polo shirt. Chapters: 0:00 Eight episodes dropped at once 1:29 Why the UK season feels calmer 2:27 Half these guys look like the same person 4:30 Accents we cannot place 6:36 The cast who never made the show 9:01 Still early enough to stay classy 10:19 Sophie and Taylor, the golden couple 12:24 Jordan and Yasmin 14:08 Getting engaged with no dating history 18:52 The only smart way to do this show 19:41 Nick and Vanessa versus the UK hosts 23:40 Ciara and Ajay 26:08 What does Ciara bring to the table 28:16 She is lying about being fine with it 32:43 Jack is weaponized ADHD 33:48 The poem he wrote for Faye instead 38:26 Did he just call her Fran 41:58 He is going to cheat 42:45 Chefs do not make money 46:07 Jack won the lottery with Faye 48:11 The untucked polo proposal 53:32 Where Ciara and Ajay land 54:51 Cuba and Ryan, the anti Jack 58:14 Francesca, Joseph, and Chevanique 63:09 The wow reaction 64:20 We need Jimmy in England 67:12 The mini fan moment 68:41 What we are covering next Is Love Blind? is Neil and Shelly talking through dating reality television, week by week. Video version and clips: https://www.youtube.com/@isloveblindpodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/isloveblindpodcast TikTok: @isloveblindtiktok Got a dating story or a question for a future episode? Send it over.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

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5.0 / 5

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