Love Is Blind, and apparently sometimes very, very late. A first-of-its-kind live reunion special for Season four of the hit reality series was scheduled to kick off on Sunday night, but as excited viewers tuned in, they instead were met with a technical glitch informing them that the telecast was running behind schedule.
Subscribers were reportedly greeted with the message: “Pardon the interruption. We’re having trouble playing Netflix. Please check your internet connection and try again.” As of the time of publication, the reunion was over an hour late without any sign of starting soon.
Netflix gave a handful of updates throughout the night, at one point writing “Love Is…late” and promising the show would start around 8:15 p.m. rather than the scheduled time of 8 p.m. However, that time came and went with frustrated viewers waiting for updates on each Love Is Blind couple.
Meanwhile, cohosts Nick and Vanessa Lachey shared an Instagram video attempting to explain the delay. “Apparently y’all, everybody broke the internet to see this reunion! So we’re ready to roll. We just gotta figure this out. We’re getting everything to work. We are not asking any questions to anybody until we are streaming live into your living rooms, onto your phones, onto your tablets, whatever you’re watching on. I promise we will save all of the tea for you.”
The cast members also couldn’t help but poke fun at the situation, with Marshall Glaze joking that he was trying to fix the problem himself. “I’m trying yall,” he tweeted.
And of course, (rightfully) frustrated viewers spoke out about the delay on social media. Throughout the ordeal, hashtags like “GET IT TOGETHER”, “WTF Netflix” and #loveislate began trending on Twitter.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez referenced a scene from the LiB finale, writing, “Someone call Lucia the seamstress to fix this. I believe in her.”
“Netflix, you have 34 minutes before succession and barry take away all the momentum you built for this reunion, embarrassing,” one viewer wrote.
Sunday night’s reunion was set to feature the couples from Love Is Blind’s fourth season. Three of the five couples — Chelsea Griffin and Kwame Appiah, Tiffany Pennywell and Brett Brown, and Bliss Poureetezadi and Zack Goytowski — said “I do” and legally tied the knot during the final. Meanwhile, Micah Lussier and Paul Peden and Jackelina “Jackie” Bonds and Glaze chose not to marry.
