Netflix retains ‘Love Is Blind’ followers ready for reside reunion

LOS ANGELES — Love is not affected person, love is not form — a minimum of if you happen to ask the followers of Netflix‘s “Love Is Blind.” Viewers needed to wait greater than an hour to look at the Season 4 reunion particular set to stream reside Sunday — Netflix’s second-ever reside occasion by itself platform.

“Love Is Blind: The Reside Reunion,” hosted by Vanessa and Nick Lachey, was to stream from Los Angeles beginning at 5 p.m. Pacific. Netflix subscribers have been capable of be a part of a ready room for the present 10 minutes earlier than the beginning time — and those that did have been nonetheless there an hour later. The present lastly began airing — seemingly reside — at round 6:16 p.m. Pacific, though some Netflix customers nonetheless reported difficulties accessing the content material.

“We’re sorry we’re late,” Vanessa Lachey mentioned, the only real acknowledgment of the delay on the high of the published.

“To everybody who stayed up late, awoke early, gave up their Sunday afternoon… we’re extremely sorry that the Love is Blind Reside Reunion didn’t prove as we had deliberate,” Netflix tweeted at 6:29 p.m. Pacific. “We’re filming it now and we’ll have it on Netflix as quickly as humanly attainable. Once more, thanks and sorry.”

A request for remark from Netflix was not instantly returned. Netflix’s first reside streaming occasion, “Chris Rock: Selective Outrage,” didn’t characteristic any obvious technical difficulties.

On Twitter, Netflix had acknowledged the delay with out providing rationalization. At two minutes previous the preliminary begin time, it promised the particular can be in on in quarter-hour. Seven minutes later, the corporate tweeted: “Promise #LoveIsBlindLIVE will likely be well worth the wait….” together with an image of one of many season’s “villains.”

The final exercise from the account was a retweet of U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez making a joke in regards to the delay. With the unique finish time of the particular approaching, nothing had been posted since — and it remained that means even as soon as the present began airing for some, till the apology tweet.

Earlier than the present lastly aired, Vanessa Lachey had taken to Instagram — briefly reside, maybe satirically — from the set to attempt to entice viewers to remain on, indicating the delay was a technical problem in a publish thanking followers for being affected person and captioned: “Apparently we broke the web!”

“That is so 2023,” she mentioned.

Solid members from the Seattle-based season additionally took to the social media platform to joke in regards to the delay. Marshall Glaze posted an image of a person finding out an array of wires: “I am making an attempt yall,” he tweeted.

Competing streamers and networks additionally made hay of the drama.

“We’d by no means hold you ready for a Reunion,” BravoTV — house of many a chaotic reunion particular — tweeted with a winky face.

“Hmm,” learn a screencap that includes Kerry Washington tweeted by Hulu.

Whereas the chaos dominated Twitter’s trending subjects, the top of the hour introduced a major risk to the Netflix’s dominance of the discourse: the most recent episode of HBO’s “Succession” was now streaming.

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Related Press journalists Beatrice Dupuy, Alicia Rancilio and Mallika Sen contributed to this report.