Why love blind season 8 uses true music, has longer episodes pods

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Greg Hein/NetflixLove is blind Went to his eighth season, making sure that episodes are longer with licensed music in the background.
“This is our fifth anniversary, and music has always been so much of the show,” – Chris Colen detach Variety In an interview published on Sunday, February 16. “We decided to lean creatively on the celebration of wonderful love songs – not all of them, obviously songs.”
In the past seasons, Love is blind An array of unlicensed music is used. During 8 seasonThe premiere took place on February 14, the scenes were staged in the song Billy Ailish, Justin Bieber, Reo Speedwagon and more popular artists.
“There are a lot of songs we talked about what we failed to use that I hope the next seasons,” Coel added Diversity. “So many of our experiences around love come from love songs and music. It causes our feelings. The opportunity to include in the show some of these wonderful songs and great performers – it’s really exciting and hopefully uplifting and entertaining experience for viewers.”
Netflix brought Love is blind Pods to the twin cities for 8 season, which were lifted in Minnesota in the spring of 2024. When the first batch of episodes fell, there were six episodes that were laid out exclusively devoted Experiment with a pod rather than ordinary three -four.
“It’s always how editing works. We shoot everything, and then we go back and look how we got there. We gathered pieces together,” Coel explained. “As always, we are trying to choose stories that resonate, and what we believe are worthy of saying because they are leaning towards authenticity.”

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The courtesy of NetflixAccording to Coelen, POD frames are a “really entertaining” way that loves stories – for example, Lauren Hamilton and Cameron Hamilton from 1 season as well Alex and Brennon lemieux From the 3 season – unfolded.
“There are incredible love triangles. When we first started making shows, we thought we didn’t have time to tell stories about love triangles,” Coel said. “But now we accept the fact that it is incredibly emotional, dramatic, dirty and rapid.”
8 season presents five interactions on the pod – plus as also Additional two This was not shown on the screen – as well as the POD participants Madison Erichielthe love triangle since Alex Brown and Meisson Horachek. At the same time, Mason, 33, also got acquainted with Meg Fink. (All four contestants left the experiment alone.)
“If you look at the history of Madison, Alex, Mason and Meg in Podki … We never talked about a story that had never made it from pods,” Coel said Variety. “I think it is really interesting to do it because people will always ask, ‘What else happened? Who else did the date? We can never do the show to show everything but show some other things that happen in the pods just incredibly interesting. I probably could make 30 episodes of pods, and it would be fun. “
Season 8, in fact, showed more leading players than if you earlier.
“We told more stories than we said. We talked about 16 people this season, and so we have more POD episodes,” Kolen said.
Love is blind Currently broadcast on Netflix. New episodes Drop weekly.