Ok, I actually didn’t expect this.
I met my colleagues in the coffee room on Friday and one of them grabs my arm pretty hard, stares into my eyes and says “you MUST see Love is blind Sweden Gabbi… you MUST”.
My God, I thought, I’m sorry but I absolutely understand that you can like a lot of shows like Love Island or Love is blind but then the international editions where people… make slightly better television? We Swedes are a little more tidy and not quite as limitless in these dating programs.
But hey, I’d damn well get it.
This weekend my boyfriend and I each poured a glass of bubbly, poured a bowl of lentil chips and one of olives. The lights came on and I smeared on the first episode.
After five minutes I was floored. FLOOR. The casting people who work to get people into the program deserve some form of award. And above all when it comes to the brides.
Is one prettier than the other? It’s like accidentally falling into a room and the Victoria’s Secret Angels have a meeting.
We must protect Krisse-Ly with everything we have.
The bad bitch Catja you become obsessed with it right from the start. But then… everyone really has something and looks like ten-pointers all over the place. Plus they are so incredibly nice to each other after any defeat where the guys might have told them off and said they want to bet on someone else.
But now. To the boys.
Considering how incredibly difficult it is to cast men in this type of program, I think they succeeded well with what they rattled off. To be completely honest, the median value for the boys is quite a bit below the girls, but there are nuggets of gold.
Oscar and Christopher shine like two bright stars in this guy’s sky. If nothing else, people stood up and screamed with happiness when Christofer told the showman Sergio on the sharp.
Sergio is….. a special point. Image source: NETFLIX
And once we’ve slipped into the subject.
Sergio is one big RED FLAG. I unfortunately understand why he was pushed into this show but damn my eyes BLEED every time I see him or hear him talk. It twists in his whole body from his whole way of walking, standing and talking. RUNNING!
But then, the sickest potato that was put was when Sergio says to our WONDERFUL Amanda that he is turned off by the thought of her being bullied. This after she opened up about her traumatic schooling.
Amanda told that she had been bullied. Image source: NETFLIX
Turned off…. by …. that she….. was bullied.
I sat quite honestly and gaped. I didn’t know whether to puke or what to say. I’ve seen the grossest of the grossest seasons of Ex on the beach/Paradise Hotel and NEVER had anything so vile exposed to my eardrums.
Jeppe Johansson told a female attendee: “This is how I’m going to squirt you down tonight” before emptying a bottle of bubbly into her face.
Eric Hagberg said he was “Thinking about sleeping with Erica but I’ll probably take Paow instead because she has bigger boobs”
Arvid Stenbäcken said after he had sex with another female participant that he didn’t really want to but “did it because he was drunk”.
But then comes this…
Love is blind Sweden. Image source: NETFLIX
The nice thing is, as I said, that the other guys SAY IT OUT. They kick straight out when they hear what kind of crap Sergio has hatched. They honestly get pretty annoyed which was refreshing.
Now it remains to be seen how things will go for our profiles in this season. You don’t know much – but that you will be sitting on a bench in front of this – that is one thing that is certain.