I had a feeling my mother would like the Netflix reality dating show “Love Is Blind,” because of her highly developed sense of outrage. It’s a New York thing. New Yorkersliveto be outraged, and when they see injustice, they respond as if it were happening to他们。

So when I put on the show, I knew I had a hit when my mother started talking back to the television.

I should stipulate here that at 86, my mother has all her marbles, and does not generally talk to inanimate objects or to people on the TV screen. But if you watch “Love Is Blind” — now in its fifth season — some of the stuff is so appalling and crazy that you can’t help but yell at the people on the show.

For the uninitiated, “Love Is Blind,” hosted by real-life married couple Nick and Vanessa Lachey, assembles a group of single men and a group of women, all of them generally between 25 and 35 years old. The men and women meet their potential partners within pods, but with a wall separating them. Over lengthy conversations, they get to know each other and become fond of each other, and some even profess love to each other — without ever seeing each other.

Eventually, several couples get engaged, and only then do they find out what their betrothed looks like. Following that, there’s a four-week countdown to the wedding, where they must decide, on the altar, whether to go through with the marriage.

The ostensible idea behind the show is that people can make a true connection when not distracted by external factors such as income, age and physical appearance. In rare cases, this turns out to be true. But more often, the fun of the show is that toxic personalities take advantage.

This has never been more the case than in this new season, in which a couple, Izzy and Stacy, form a potential marriage made in hell.

Izzy, a strong-looking guy along the lines ofVin Diesel, starts off as king of the pods, with several women liking him. He chooses Stacy, who accepts his marriage proposal but then slowly proceeds to annihilate him.

The first sign that things will not end well comes when we find out that Izzy is broke and Stacy is rich, and yet she expects him to take care of everything once they’re married. She wants him to pay for all their dinners out, half of her household repairs (even though she owns the house) and all of her “luxury” travel. All the while, he stands there with a dumb, frightened smile on his face, agreeing to everything.

Later Stacy tells him that she wants him to have the daily “angst” that she might leave him. In another scene, she complains that he hasn’t ever cooked dinner for her, and he is so upset by this that he runs out of the room weeping. (Picture Vin Diesel weeping because his girlfriend yelled at him, and you’ll understand the impact of this.)

Oh yeah, and to her friends, she affectionately refers to him as a “big old chunk of meat.”

By the last episode, my mother’s outrage was cranked up to 11.

屏幕上,依奇告诉相机that Stacy “makes me laugh.”

“No, she makes himcry,” my mother said.

When Stacy described herself as a “hopeless romantic,” Mom said, “No, she’s just hopeless.”

When Izzy told Stacy, “I’ll always fight for you,” my mother sagely predicted that “he’s going to spend the rest of his life kissing her ass.”

Finally, the wedding scene arrived, and it went exactly as anyone could have predicted: He pours out his heart, but she leaves him at the altar.

“She went through that whole thing — the wedding dress and all that crap — and she knew she wasn’t going to marry him,” my mom said.

Being a mom, my own mother was particularly attuned to the reaction of Izzy’s mom to her son’s rejection at the altar.

“Look at her. She’s relieved,” Mom said, pointing to the TV. “She feels good not to have that rich bitch for a daughter-in-law.”

Interestingly, by the last minutes of the season, Izzy seemed to be in the early stages of finally getting angry, slowly catching on that he’d been had.

Still, my mother wasn’t satisfied. “He’s not pissed off enough,” she said. “I want him to tell her off.”

底线:我开始断奶的过程mother off of 50-year-old “Columbos” and 40-year-old “Murder She Wrote” episodes. She has a new favorite show and has gone back to the beginning. She is already halfway through Season 1 of “Love Is Blind.”

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