‘Love Is Blind’ Season 4 Reunion Livestream Breaks, Fans React
“It’s almost time!” said the screens of countless Netflix viewers for half an hour on Sunday, April 16 as the streamer tried in vain to get the Love Is Blind: The Live Reunion started.
Netflix’s second-ever live event experienced extreme technical difficulties trying to get the reunion special started, leaving fans on Twitter gobsmacked (and prompting entertainment companies to capitalize on the awkwardness).
The glitches first began at 8/7c, when the Love Is Blind Season 4 reunion was supposed to kick off. Netflix users were hit with error messages that some thought were individual glitches at first, but then Twitter made them realize they weren’t in it alone. Netflix confirmed the technical difficulties in a tweet that read, “Love is … late #LoveIsBlindLIVE will be on in 15 minutes!”
It tried to convince viewers to stay tuned by confirming Irina Solomonova’s presence at the live event in Los Angeles. “Promise #LoveIsBlindLIVE will be worth the wait….” the tweet read, accompanied by a photo of Irina in a black gown. By 8:45 p.m. ET, the one-hour reunion still hadn’t begun, with Twitter users posting warnings that viewers would jump ship when Succession began at 9 p.m.
After the Emmy-winning HBO drama delivered its most shocking episode of the series last week, fans would be hard-pressed to miss what happened next in favor of the Love Is Blind special (no doubt, they’ll tune in once it’s finally available). And what’s more, the final season premiere of Barry would debut directly after Succession. Time was of the essence.
Fan reactions to the broken Love Is Blind livestream will be ones to remember.
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) April 17, 2023
Someone call Lucia the seamstress to fix this. I believe in her
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 17, 2023
https://twitter.com/hellotefi/status/1647758218184228865
The internet coming together to shit talk a global streaming giant who singlehandedly put a dent in linear TV, only to fail at doing linear TV themselves in a massively promoted tentpole event? Nature is healing #LoveIsBlindLIVE
— Marissa Monticolo (@MMonticolo) April 17, 2023
not yall apparently https://t.co/bEZI68mkG0
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) April 17, 2023
Netflix attempting a livestream pic.twitter.com/ccRINvXw13
— LH (@halvorsen) April 17, 2023
Netflix really hit us with the “I’m on my way!! Almost there!!” text when in reality they were just hopping into the shower. https://t.co/ZLf96xpUAP
— Lindsay Gibbs (@linzsports) April 17, 2023
But if my payment was late, it’d be a problem #LOVEISBLINDreunion #Loveislate https://t.co/WIEDrSR1yo pic.twitter.com/cYfd28vwJI
— Dvrryl (@Dvrryl2times) April 17, 2023
Live feed of the Netflix servers right now #LOVEISBLINDreunion pic.twitter.com/hF19wT2hxx
— Mike Bloom (@AMikeBloomType) April 17, 2023
leaving at 9pm sharp to watch the roys pic.twitter.com/Jt9yFmDLJ6
— hunter harris (@hunteryharris) April 17, 2023
The real villain of season 4 #LoveIsBlindLIVE pic.twitter.com/uo2zOu4kqq
— Chicks in the Office (@ChicksInTheOff) April 17, 2023
we deserve to all share the same password after this #LoveIsBlindLIVE #LoveIsBlind pic.twitter.com/wClMHJO0ro
— T (@trinawatters) April 17, 2023
Even Love Is Blind alumni and competing companies got in on the shade.
— Lauren Speed (@Need4LSpeed) April 17, 2023
We would never keep you waiting for a Reunion 😉
— Bravo (@BravoTV) April 17, 2023
— Hulu (@hulu) April 17, 2023
Remember renting vhs’ from us. You could start it on time no problem… This is what we get.
— Blockbuster (@blockbuster) April 17, 2023
solidarity, bro
— Redbox (@redbox) April 17, 2023
Host Vanessa Lachey tried to laugh off the issues with the livestream. She and husband/co-host Nick Lachey went live on Instagram to urge viewers not to “turn the channel.”
#LoveIsBlindLIVE https://t.co/CTIGdgSEiX pic.twitter.com/XVtcCoJPFu
— Vanessa Lachey (@VanessaLachey) April 17, 2023
Nick and Vanessa #loveisLATE #LoveisBlind pic.twitter.com/uyB1EXnEIi
— ✧* 🎀 𝒦𝒶𝓈𝒾 🎀 *✧ (@Cuppycake21) April 17, 2023
Suffice it to say this was less than an ideal night for Netflix.
Naturally, the streamer had done a lot of promotion for the event. Ahead of its intended start time, the platform’s account had tweeted photos of the four couples who made it to the altar — Chelsea and Kwame, Tiffany and Brett, Bliss and Zack, and Micah and Paul. Their photos seemed to reveal their current relationship statuses, as all but Micah and Paul were photographed wearing their wedding rings. Paul, the only one to say “I don’t” in the Season 4 finale, had his left hand in his pocket, and Micah had no ring on her wedding ring finger.
This was Netflix’s second live event following Chris Rock’s Selective Outrage comedy special in March. The one “technical” difficulty that production had was when Rock flubbed a joke and they fixed it afterwards.
Love Is Blind, Season 4, Streaming Now, Netflix
