Sep 29, 2024 - Business

How the "Love Is Blind" experiment has worked in each city so far

Maxwell Millington

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A chart showing Love is Blind outcomes by city. Each participant is shown as one heart, styled by whether that participant got married, engaged, or divorced. The city with the most participants who are still married as of Sept. 12, 2024 is Seattle, at six. Chicago has the fewest at zero: both of its married couples divorced shortly after their first anniversary. — Data: Wikipedia, Axios research; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals

A chart showing Love is Blind outcomes by city. Each participant is shown as one heart, styled by whether that participant got married, engaged, or divorced. The city with the most participants who are still married as of Sept. 12, 2024 is Seattle, at six. Chicago has the fewest at zero: both of its married couples divorced shortly after their first anniversary. — Data: Wikipedia, Axios research; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals

Part of the appeal of Netflix's "Love Is Blind" is that each season feels like a microcosm of the dating scene in the cities they're filmed in.

The big picture: Before the six-time Emmy-nominated dating show returns this week, we wanted to look back at how the experiment has fared so far.

Atlanta - Season 1

A-Town was the blueprint for the series and produced one of reality TV's most popular couples — Lauren and Cameron Hamilton.
Driving the news: The show is casting in Atlanta again.

Chicago - Season 2

Like it's predecessor, the second season saw 16 engagements and two marriages.
Yes, but: Both couples have split. The only "Love Is Blind" divorces so far have been from this season.

Dallas - Season 3

The Dallas season produced the least engagements (five) but arguably the show's greatest "villain" — Bartise Bowden.
The latest: Contestants Alexa and Brennon Lemieux welcomed their first child this summer.

Seattle - Season 4

The Emerald City takes the crown for the most engagements, marriages and the first "'Love Is Blind' baby" from Bliss and Zack Goytowski.
What they're saying: Chelsea Griffin Appiah, who married Kwame, joined the show's casting team. "It's very hard to cast for something like this. We check every box. It's tricky, people are humans, but we do our best," she tells Axios.

Houston - Season 5

This season has become more memorable for the drama we didn't see on screen. Only three of the six engagements and two of the three weddings were aired.

Behind the scenes: Participant Renee Poche, who's engagement and wedding did not air, has sued Netflix and production company Delirium TV and claims she "didn't feel safe" during her time on the show.

Charlotte - Season 6

Get out your EpiPen, the Queen City season is the most watched to date.
Yes, but: What happened to Southern hospitality? The Charlotte cast tied with Dallas for the lowest amount of engagements, and only one couple said "I do."

What's next: We'll meet contestants from Washington, D.C. in the pods Wednesday on Netflix.

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