‘Love Is Blind’ Season 4’s Villains Have Made This the Best Installment Yet

Trash or not, reality television is the diabolical gift that keeps giving. Every time Netflix releases a new series starring hot-and-bothered singles looking for love or lust, we moan and grumble online—only to have it sit pretty in the “Most Watched” list for weeks. Among the biggest, most complaint-worthy shows in the Netflix reality romance stable: Love Is Blind. And this season has warranted the most discussion of any Netflix dating show to date, for there’s not one baddie or even two, the new villains keep coming and swiftly steal screen time from the doe-eyed couples.

When the first five episodes of Love Is Blind Season 4 dropped March 24, the chatter was inescapable. Sure, the saccharine romance between sleeping beauty Tiffany Pennywell and hypebeast Brett Brown was cute, meriting some fannish commentary. But if it’s cheese you’re looking for, the streaming giant’s rinsed-and-repeated seasonal rom-coms are a better bet.

Luckily, it’s the fearlessly frothy villains—so brutal that we can sharpen our moral compasses on the screen—-that make this season of the “social experiment” unmissable and terribly tempting to tweet about. Let’s start with the obvious ones: evil twins Micah Lussier and Irina Solomonova. In a Love Is Blind first, this season had *almost* more drama in the living quarters than between the couples themselves, all courtesy of these minute-made besties. Can’t lie: Irina had us fooled in the premiere, when she opened up about her struggles with acne; she baited with a classic sob story, and we ate it up. But this little crumb only made her villain origin story more delicious.

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