LOS ANGELES — Love isn’t affected person, love isn’t variety — a minimum of in the event you ask the followers of Netflix’s “Love Is Blind.” Viewers needed to wait greater than an hour to observe the Season 4 reunion particular set to stream dwell Sunday — Netflix’s second-ever dwell occasion by itself platform.
“Love Is Blind: The Dwell Reunion,” hosted by Vanessa and Nick Lachey, was to stream from Los Angeles beginning at 5 p.m. Pacific. Netflix subscribers had been in a position to be part of a ready room for the present 10 minutes earlier than the beginning time — and those that did had been nonetheless there an hour later. The present lastly began airing — seemingly dwell — at round 6:16 p.m. Pacific, though some Netflix customers nonetheless reported difficulties accessing the content material.
“We’re sorry we’re late,” Vanessa Lachey mentioned, the only acknowledgment of the delay on the high of the published.
“To everybody who stayed up late, awoke early, gave up their Sunday afternoon… we’re extremely sorry that the Love is Blind Dwell Reunion didn’t end up as we had deliberate,” Netflix tweeted at 6:29 p.m. Pacific. “We’re filming it now and we’ll have it on Netflix as quickly as humanly attainable. Once more, thanks and sorry.”
A request for remark from Netflix was not instantly returned. Netflix’s first live-streaming occasion, “Chris Rock: Selective Outrage,” didn’t function any obvious technical difficulties.
On Twitter, Netflix had acknowledged the delay with out providing an evidence. At two minutes previous the preliminary begin time, it promised the particular could be in on in quarter-hour. Seven minutes later, the corporate tweeted: “Promise #LoveIsBlindLIVE shall be well worth the wait….” together with an image of one of many season’s “villains.”
The final exercise from the account was a retweet of U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez making a joke concerning the delay. With the unique finish time of the particular approaching, nothing had been posted since — and it remained that method even as soon as the present began airing for some, till the apology tweet.
Earlier than the present lastly aired, Vanessa Lachey had taken to Instagram — briefly dwell, maybe sarcastically — from the set to attempt to entice viewers to remain on, indicating the delay was a technical subject in a put up thanking followers for being affected person and captioned: “Apparently we broke the web!”
“That is so 2023,” she mentioned.
Forged members from the Seattle-based season additionally took to the social media platform to joke concerning the delay. Marshall Glaze posted an image of a person finding out an array of wires: “I’m making an attempt yall,” he tweeted.
Competing streamers and networks additionally made hay of the drama.
“We might by no means preserve you ready for a Reunion,” BravoTV — residence of many a chaotic reunion particular — tweeted with a winky face.
“Hmm,” learn a screencap that includes Kerry Washington tweeted by Hulu.
Whereas the chaos dominated Twitter’s trending matters, the top of the hour introduced a big menace to Netflix’s dominance of the discourse: the newest episode of HBO’s “Succession” was now streaming.
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