Love Is Blind Season 9 Returns in Denver With Six Engagements

Netflix’s dating experiment Love Is Blind returned on Wednesday, October 1, with a ninth season filmed in Denver that drops six of its 12 episodes immediately and will release the remaining installments weekly. The series brings 32 singles, aged roughly 27 to 41, into the pods to test whether emotional connection made sight unseen can lead to engagements and, ultimately, marriage.

Hosted by Nick and Vanessa Lachey, the Emmy‑nominated show follows the same format viewers know: participants speak through walls in the pods, form attachments, and may propose without having seen each other. Netflix has renewed the series through season 10. The season’s first block of episodes produced six engagements; the full episode schedule calls for three more episodes on October 8, two on October 15, and the season finale on October 22, with a reunion special expected after the finale.

This season includes a mix of professions and personal circumstances among the cast. Producers highlighted a range of backgrounds, from a championship poker player and a Rolex expert to a former Covid crisis nurse and single fathers. Several cast members’ personal histories have become focal points in early...