‘Love Is Blind’ “Live” Reunion Stood Up Its Own Viewers

Viewers who tuned in to watch Love Is Blind season 4’s hotly-anticipated “live” reunion began to feel a little like the show’s sleepy suitor Tiffany Sunday night. Netflix users were left in limbo for more than an hour, endlessly refreshing their screens as the streamer’s live event failed to play. 

Hosted by Vanessa and Nick Lachey, Netflix’s second-ever live offering—following Chris Rock’s comedy special last month—was meant to air live from Los Angeles at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on Sunday night. When users were met with error messages, Netflix tweeted that the show would start in 15 minutes. Seven minutes later, Netflix ensured on Twitter that “#LoveIsBlindLIVE will be worth the wait….” But it would be more than an hour after the original start time that the reunion would actually air—and viewers who didn’t stick around, perhaps switching over to HBO’s Succession, didn’t get to see it at all. 

During the multitude of delays, Vanessa Lachey went live on her Instagram to appease anxious viewers. “This is so 2023. I can’t show the season 4 cast, but Nick and I and the audience is all here. We are sitting here. Apparently y’all, everybody broke the internet to see this reunion!” she joked. 

The technical difficulties that prevented us from seeing newly-married contestants Bliss and Zach, Tiffany and Brett, and Chelsea and Kwame, as well as the brutally broken-up Paul and Micah, bonded politicians, media figures, and companies alike. Hulu, Bravo, and even Blockbuster poked fun at the snafu on Twitter, as did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, who wrote, “Would love to read the oral history of this evening inside Netflix.”