Season 7 of “ ” forced the show to finally address a subject that it has kept at arm’s length: politics. For most of the couples who get engaged on the Netflix series, politics is never a topic of conversation. Aside from a disagreement between Season 3 cast members about abortion, the contestants on “Love Is Blind” typically aren’t shown expressing their political views.
However, that doesn’t mean the discussions don’t happen. Each day in the pods, the contestants are handed “conversational guides” with multiple suggestions, including “how they would tackle conflicting political views,” according to . But for the show’s seventh season, out Oct.
2, “Love Is Blind” decided to actually opinions about conservative and liberal standpoints and the upcoming presidential election for the first time— fitting for a season located in Washington, D.C. In Episode 4, Marissa George, a 32-year-old lawyer who previously spent seven years in the Navy, opens up to Bohdan Olinares, a 36-year-old Ukrainian refugee who served as a Marine, about how differing political stances affected her past relationship.
“I think I told you I dated the Trump supporter for three years,” Marissa said in the pods. “He was a good person and everything. There’s just a difference in thinking about how our society works.
” Bohdan and Marissa both agreed that their views skew more liberal. In an interview with TODAY.com, Marissa explains why she wasn’t afraid to broach the t.