Just in case you thought Dallas was done being the backdrop for a clutch of singles looking for love on a TV show, Netflix is about to drop three follow-up episodes to season three of Love Is Blind.
For the uninitiated, Love Is Blind takes 15 men and 15 women and puts them in pods, where they start their courtship by talking through the walls rather than meeting face-to-face, like a prison movie with booze. They are paired in a speed-dating format, and then spend 10 days getting to know someone without seeing them.
In fact, the only way to see the person is to propose to them, which is like ransomware but for your heart and your mental health. In October, the series led viewers through all of that, and then the courtship and weddings (or not) of the handful of people who went far enough to put an engagement ring on it and then didn’t hate each other at the end of the four weeks.
Host Nick Lachey said the Dallas season was like “going through an emotional kind of washing machine,” and that some would end up “stuck in the spin cycle.” By the last episode, we knew that two couples got married (Alexa Alfia and Brennon Lemieux and Colleen Reed and Matt Bolton), while couples Sikiru “SK” Alagbada and Raven Ross, Zanab Jaffrey and Cole Barnett, and Nancy Rodriguez and Bartise Bowden failed to launch.
At the end of the season, we also learned that Alexa and Brennon have settled into married life, while Colleen and Matt still don’t live together, because of their leases. (Hey, credit ratings are a thing.)
On February 10, Netflix will drop its Love Is Blind: After the Altar, three-episode follow up that, according to the trailer, promises lots of gasping and pointed looks. It’s unclear when these episodes were shot exactly (the season itself was filmed in early 2022), but the episode guide says it was a year after the weddings, was filmed in Dallas, and that “some old flames have reunited, while others try to navigate next steps in their relationships.” It also appears that they are coming together for a “birthday extravaganza.”
The trailer for the new 45-minute episodes gives some clues about how the 10 people featured in the series fared. Alfia and Lemieux are talking babies. Reed and Bolton still don’t live together. “It’s not that we don’t want to live together,” Bolton says in the trailer.
“But you’re not,” Lemieux responds. (For what it’s worth, it appears that the two are very much together, despite not cohabitating at the time After the Altar was filmed.)
Are Alagbada and Ross, who decided to date instead of getting married, still an item? The trailer seems to indicate so, with Alagbada getting down on one knee (again). But not long after the season finale aired, he was accused of cheating, which the trailer also seems to address as a tearful Ross says, “SK cheated on me. I truly had no idea.” Alagbada, for his part, says it actually took a while for the two to start dating again after he turned her down at the altar at the end of the season.
But then later (it seems like a lot is packed into the seconds-long trailer, by the way), she says she’s “ready for the new chapter,” adding, “I still believe in love.”
Rodriguez and Bowden seem to at least be friendly in the trailer, but it doesn’t seem likely that they are dating. The big clue? Bowden will also appear on Netflix’s new dating show, Perfect Match, along with a handful of other Love Is Blind alums from other seasons. That debuts on Valentine’s Day. The content machine never stops.
Jaffrey and Barnett, who had a fractious courtship that ended with a lot of fighting (remember the fight over Cuties?) apparently didn’t see each other at all before the reunion episodes were shot. “Do you want to talk?” Barnett asks in the video. No word on if they do chat, but Jaffrey said on Instagram that she and another season 3 contestant, Ashley Randerman, are now roommates. Randerman didn’t make it past the pod portion of the season.
Netflix will drop all three After the Altar episodes on Friday.
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