This text comprises spoilers about Love Is Blind season 10, episodes 1-6.

One Love Is Blind season 10 couple hit the jackpot.

After getting engaged within the very first episode, Vic and Christine skilled one thing that no different couple has within the historical past of Netflix's actuality courting experiment. As an alternative of happening the post-engagement journey with all the opposite {couples} featured this season, they bought to get pleasure from their very own, non-public, romantic journey, away from all of the drama of the opposite {couples} and with none producers watching over them. And the creator of the sequence reveals to Leisure Weekly solely why that call was made this season.

"Love Is Blind by no means fails to shock — we've by no means adopted this many {couples} earlier than, and it's actually thrilling," creator Chris Coelen tells EW in an unique interview concerning the first batch of season 10 episodes. "We had seven nice {couples}, and we felt actually strongly about all of them. Usually, we might solely monitor as much as 5 and generally we've stretched to 6 — even when now we have extra engagements than that, we will type of zero in [on who to drop]. And this time, we couldn't. We actually felt like that we had an abundance of terrific selections, so we made the choice to observe all of them."

However as a result of expanded roster of featured {couples} this season, producers needed to get artistic to determine a technique to observe all of them after the pod portion concluded.

"A part of the explanation that we will't observe greater than usually 5, and generally we stretch to 6, is that we don't have the funds to try this," Coelen explains. "That's one thing I've talked about each single season, we simply don't have the funds. We don't even have the funds to observe six, however we stretch, and we determine it out. And so there's completely no manner we might do it with seven."

In the midst of episode 5, a title card revealed that Vic and Christine have been despatched on their very own to Calamigos Ranch in Malibu, Calif., whereas the opposite six engaged {couples} went to Cabo San Lucas in Mexico collectively. Vic and Christine's journey was solely documented with handheld selfie movies (once more, because of funds causes), however they’ll nonetheless be featured all through the remainder of the season as a predominant couple, filmed by producers, as soon as they return dwelling to Ohio.

"We mentioned, 'You recognize what, we're going to ship one couple on their very own particular person romantic getaway, they usually get to do quite a lot of the issues that the {couples} that do go to Mexico bought to do,'" Coelen says. "We needed to decide one, and the couple that we picked, what I mentioned to them earlier than we despatched them on their journey, 'We love you, we need to observe you, we need to be with you again in Ohio. You guys have been by yourself wonderful romantic bubble, your romantic island, this entire whole time.'"

As a result of Vic and Christine didn't produce other romantic entanglements moreover one another within the pods, it made the choice straightforward to separate them from the remainder of the engaged {couples} for this a part of the season.

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"A part of what folks do once they go to Mexico is that they resolve unresolved threads," Coelen says. "That's a part of the purpose of going to Mexico and seeing all of the others, and Vic and Christine actually didn't have any of these unresolved threads. So that they have been those that we picked to go on the journey by themselves."

Coelen clarifies that Vic and Christine "dated different folks," however they didn't create any drama that may erupt upon mixing with the opposite {couples} in Mexico. In contrast to the others, who’re in a love pentagon and must cope with their exes on the journey.

"Bri, for example, her high 4 guys that she was courting on the finish have been all in Mexico, all of them," Coelen factors out. "And there was only a dwell interconnectivity amongst folks: Connor with Emma and Bri, and simply so many individuals, so many type of free threads. We at all times inform them it's good for them to have the chance to both resolve these threads or work out that there's one thing extra there that's going to trigger them to not get married. These are the sorts of issues they should resolve earlier than the altar. And, like I mentioned, Vic and Christine didn't have that."

Coelen provides that, after they have been informed they have been getting their very own non-public journey, Vic and Christine took the information properly.

"It was precisely the response that you’d need, which is they only have been in love and felt like they needed to spend time collectively," he says. "And I don't suppose it actually mattered to them whether or not they have been going to go off and have time in Malibu or Mexico. They simply actually needed to spend time with one another. And after I defined to them the explanation they have been going to ship them to Malibu earlier than sending them again to Ohio, they thought that it made complete sense."

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And regardless of the expanded variety of engaged {couples} this season, don't anticipate to get further episodes. Coelen confirms that season 10 will include the identical variety of episodes as current seasons: 12.

"It's tough to attempt to steadiness the tales, however I believe we did a extremely nice job," he says. "I actually consider this season is perhaps our greatest season."

Love Is Blind season 10 releases episodes 7-9 on Wednesday, Feb. 18, with episodes 10-11 the next week on Feb. 25, and the finale on March 4 on Netflix.

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