And then the people who get engaged are the people who get engaged,” Coelen told Entertainment Weekly.
He continued to explain that when each season begins, the program “strives to seed the pods for the greatest possible success.” That means including cast members who are diverse “of not only ethnicity or race,” but also financial status, body types, looks, and backgrounds.
“This season of Love is Blind has the problem where there are too many identical white people that I can’t tell apart,” another post read.
Because there’s no way you’re casting these 5 men on the same show, giving them all a large amount of camera time, & expecting me to know the difference,” one person wrote, referencing President Donald Trump’s recent executive order to end all federal DEI programs.
Viewers were quick to point out that the cast of the Netflix dating show’s eighth season were mostly white following the release of its first six episodes on February 14.
