Love Is Blind: Forever

The twist no one saw coming.

In it’s 90th season, Netflix’s Love is Blind took a turn no one saw coming.

Jack and Casey, global darlings, met sight unseen, and the pod romance went off without a hitch. They laughed together, they cried together, they finished each other’s sentences. It was clear, no questions about it, they were making it to the alter and for them, love was most definitely blind.

But the question still remained. Would it be blind just for now or would it be blind…forever?

In a wild twist, the contestants would get the opportunity to live out their storied romance sight unseen, not just for the two week stint in a hangar in some studio, but for the remainder of their lives. How?

Blind surgery.

When asked about the ethics around the new twist, the hosts of the show, Nick and Vanessa Lachey (95 y/o, but look twenty), exclaimed “It’s their choice. We are just offering to pay for this wonderful opportunity. We are just guides in this experiment. The cupids. We help set people up for success.”

The Lachey’s over the years have been accused of manipulating people’s lives under the guise of finding love, but have remained steadfast in their cupid-esque persona.

The stunt brought the already post-global viewership (also watched on Mars), to an all time high, and had everyone asking the same question: Is love actually blind?

We all knew Jack and Casey were going to go the distance from the first moment they spoke to each other, but when Jack dropped down on one knee and proposed, not just to marry Casey, but that they undergo blind surgery, the show went to the moon.

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The day of the big event was truly something you had to see to believe.

Typically, there’s a big sight reveal moment in the show where the couples see each other for the first time. Instead, however, Jack and Casey were blindfolded, guided toward one another by production assistants, and allowed five minutes to essentially feel their way around each other’s bodies like they were lost in a dark room.

They were then ushered over to and placed in the equivalent of dentist chairs next to one another in the middle of a set surrounded by a massive live audience, including both of their immediate families. Above the chairs, inches from their faces, was a laser machine pointed straight at their eyes and branded “The Blind Maker™”.

The surgeon, turned officiant, who was actually just an actor and later charged and found guilty of fraud and embezzlement (unrelated, no comment from the Lachey’s), asked Jack and Casey the life defining question:

“Jack. Having now touched your partner, do you still wish to prove that love is blind forever?”

“I do,” he said with confidence.

And then the music took a turn for the ominous and the camera zoomed in on Casey’s blindfolded face. Her lips quivered. Tears could be seen escaping from the blindfold.

“Casey. Having now touched your partner, do you still wish to prove that love is blind forever?”

The camera moved in for a close up. The music intensified. A shot on Vanessa and Nick looking on. A shot of the two families, crying. A shot of the live audience with one die hard fan holding a sign written in lipstick that said “JACK ❤️ CASEY BLIND FOREVER”.

Casey opened her mouth like she was going to say something.

“Don’t do it Case!” her father shouted from the audience.

“I love you,” Jack whispered.

“He’s hideous!” Her father continued, “He’s a beast!”.

Vanessa snapped her fingers like a Villain in a Bond Movie. Security rushed over and gagged and restrained the father.

The actor surgeon officiant repeated his question.

“Casey. Having now touched your partner, do you still wish to prove that love is blind forever?”

“I do.” Casey said. The crowd erupted, the families screamed, and the actor surgeon officiant turned on The Blind Maker™. He moved it into position, put his finger on the literal trigger, and shot lasers into Jack and Casey’s eyes, searing their irises and blinding them…forever.

Vanessa Lachey was grinning, Nick Lachey was drooling, Jack and Casey were screaming, the families were crying and it would go down in the books as the highest viewed moment in broadcast history.

As for Jack and Casey…

They realized they hated each other and six months later got a divorce.