‘Love Is Blind’ Is Coming to Austin, Home of Horribly Behaved Singles
Tech bros, it’s your time to shine — “Love is Blind” is casting in Austin.
The mega-popular show, where faceless singles meet behind a screen, fall in love, and get engaged (to varying degrees of success), bases itself out of one city for each season. The eight-season show has already had its moment in Dallas and Houston, and has yielded one successful match from each city.
“Love is Blind” operates on a hyper-accelerated timeline, where candidates spend 10 days “dating” (having hours-long conversations with love interests) in sectioned-off pods, unable to see or meet each other. To make it out of the pods, couples need to first establish a connection, commit to each other, and get engaged, yes, to a partner they’ve known for a mere 10 days. Then, the newly-minted fiancées will meet in person.
It might be a lofty goal to cast in the slightly male-dominated Austin, whose men earned Match.com’s 2018 label of “worst behaved singles” in the country — and, in that same study, were statistically deemed 549% more likely to ghost their dates, KVUE reported at the time.
In 2024, writer Rose McMackin penned an essay for Austin Monthly about the city’s “cursed” dating scene — a sort of “real world Never Never Land,” McMackin wrote. “Especially when deep-pocket tech employers like Tesla and Google are here to bankroll it.”
But as a whole, “Love Is Blind” is not the most reliable matchmaker out there; across eight seasons and 42 couples, the show has produced just nine successful marriages. So while it may not be great dating in Silicon Hills, it’ll sure be great television.
