Love Is Blind is back for more love, heartache and drama — and season 9 might be the messiest yet.
Season 9 of the Netflix dating series premiered its first six episodes on Wednesday, October 1, with a new group of hopeful singles in the city of Denver, Colorado. After cohosts Nick and Vanessa Lachey gave their initial greetings, dating in the pods officially opened — and chaos immediately ensued.
From a love at first sight engagement to various love triangles (and squares) and multiple people getting ghosted, season 9 came in hot from episode 1. Things ramped up even further in Mexico, when even the couples who seemed strong in the pods were tested.
Everything came to its tipping point at the ill-fated couple’s party that left almost no one unscathed.
“I kind of know how it ends up, but I’m certainly not going to give that away, but it’s interesting,” Nick, 51, exclusively told Us Weekly in August about season 9. “It’s such a special project for Vanessa and I, but we honestly don’t know the ins and outs of the season until we get to watch it ourselves. … So for us, we’re as anxious and as curious as anyone else about how everything kind of played out. We know the beginning, we know the end, but we don’t know the middle.”
New episodes of Love Is Blind drop Wednesdays on Netflix. Keep scrolling for a recap of every couple who got engaged and made it to Mexico — and one couple who didn’t:
Anton and Ali
Ali and Anton feel like season 9’s fairy tale, as the duo got engaged in the second episode after immediately connecting in the pods over their shared history of moving to America at a young age. Anton was calling Ali “baby” by their second conversation, and their face-to-face meeting was just as romantic. By the time they got to Mexico, they gave Us season 1 Cameron and Lauren vibes.
Joe and Madison
While Ali and Anton are the gold standard love story, Madison and Joe provided all the drama. While seemingly a sweet connection in the pods — Joe told Madison that he would be there for her if the health condition she’s suffering from causes her to eventually go entirely blind — things took a turn when they met face to face. Joe had trouble speaking out loud during the proposal, confusing viewers and Madison about how he was feeling. Their trip to Mexico was even messier, with him admitting to Madison that he’s usually into “thinner” women than her.
During a party with the other couples, Joe then got so blackout drunk he had to leave the party to go lie down and take a nap in the room. Madison tried to follow him and take care of him, but that caused him to laugh at her before passing out. Madison spent the majority of the last episode crying over his behavior.
The future of their relationship remains to be seen, but Madison, girl? You can do better.
Nick and Annie
What’s better than one love triangle? Two love triangles! Both Annie and Nick found themselves pulled between two people while in the pods before they ultimately chose to get engaged to each other.
Nick first connected to Kait, but the pair hit a roadblock when he told her he loved her and she wasn’t ready to say it back. When Nick found out that Kait wasn’t religious, he quickly changed his mind, ended their relationship and focused his sights on Annie, instead.
Annie, meanwhile, was also connecting with Brenden. Ultimately she felt like Brenden wasn’t clear enough about his feelings, while Nick was quick to drop the L word. Brenden tried his best to fight for her in a last-ditch attempt date where he laid his heart out to her, but she decided to stick with Nick.
While some viewers questioned if Annie should have chosen Brenden due to their strong connection, she and Nick seemed happy as can be in Mexico.
Jordan and Megan
Not to be outdone, “Sparkle Megan” upped Annie’s love triangle antics by finding herself in a love square with three guys interested in her: Blake, Jordan and Mike. Four became three, however, when Blake chose to leave the show abruptly, ghosting her with no goodbye.
That left Jordan and Mike. Megan found herself torn, as Mike was everything she had gone for before in the real world but Jordan captured her heart by talking about his life as a single dad to his 5-year-old son (who also suffers from the same type of diabetes as her father).
Ultimately, Megan decided to go for the guy she wouldn’t normally approach in the real world and chose Jordan, and the twosome seemed very happy during their reveal and in Mexico. That is until the ill-fated party, when Jordan started to focus too much on Joe, and not enough on her, leaving her vocally annoyed with his behavior.
Edmond and Kalybriah
This unlikely pair seemed like the perfect opposites attract situation, with Kalybriah grounding the extroverted Edmond. Their perfect match found flaws, however, when they got to Mexico and Kalybriah asked Edmond what he would do in a club if a guy came up and tried to grab her arm or hit on her. Edmond insisted that he wouldn’t do, well, anything, causing Kalybriah to get frustrated at his lack of willingness to defend her.
When the (let’s just say it, totally cursed) couples party came about, Edmond learned that every other couple had sex in Mexico — besides him and Kalybriah, who promised they’d wait for marriage. Feeling insecure, Edmond told his fiancée he now wanted to sleep together, but she turned him down. That caused him to start crying, claiming he was “too f***ing nice.”
Patrick and Kacie
The couple that never actually was. Patrick had a really hard time from the jump, first getting ghosted by Anna who left the pods without a goodbye — yes, that makes two ghosters this season — despite the twosome really connecting.
Patrick got a second chance at love with Kacie, and they seemed to really fall in love, particularly when Kacie made Patrick feel secure about his ethnicity as an Asian man, explaining that all her siblings were in relationships with non-white partners, too.
Her endless words of affirmation left Patrick feeling high, but the couple quickly crashed and burned during their engagement reveal when Kacie was clearly not attracted to Patrick. Before heading to Mexico, she met with Patrick and told him that she just wanted to “go home,” but did not confess that it was because she wasn’t into him. Instead, she left him believing that they would start things back up in Denver off camera, promising that his appearance wasn’t the issue even though producers were trying to make it seem that way and even engaged in a spicy makeout session.
Love Is Blind producers were not to be blamed, though! The show was sure to cut to their conversation with Kacie behind the scenes where she admitted that Patrick deserved someone who was “obsessed” with him and that was not her. She also confessed that she “knew” how it was going to “look” to people watching, but she didn’t care.
Obviously, the two never made it to Mexico. Can someone make Patrick the next Bachelor, please?