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Politics Won’t Tear Love Is Blind Apart
Marissa and Ramses’s conversation marks a watershed moment for the series — and reveals a truth about what makes or breaks the show’s relationships.
Season seven of Love Is Blind is set in Washington, D.C., but despite a brief discussion about one participant who voted for Trump and a longer consideration of the war in Ukraine, the city that seemed primed for political fireworks has been light on dramatic partisan content. Finally, politics are happening on Love Is Blind, a show that until this point has included footage of couples wading into disputes over money, birth control, sexual orientation, cultural expectations, sexual satisfaction, religion, and whether it is acceptable to only own plastic cutlery, but has never swerved toward anything as directly political as “what role should America play on the global stage.” It’s a watershed moment for the show, a decision to embrace some of the issues that divide Americans on a national level. Even though Ramses and Marissa’s relationship has an element of political conflict on a global scale, the real tension lies in the stuff that shapes the more intimate daily choices they have to make.
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