Watching the Love Is Blind reunion, one question kept coming up for us: Is Minneapolis really that small? Seriously, when describing the past year of their lives, a constant thread nearly every ex-couple brought up was that the participants can’t stop running into one other. At one point, it comes out that Madison Errichiello went “out” because she heard Mason Horachek was at the bar; a smoking gun against Devin Buckley during his spat with Virginia Miller comes when Madison and Molly Mullaney reveal something he said to them when he was out one night. So, how small is the Minneapolis bar scene, exactly? “There are four bars,” Monica Danús confirmed during a live discussion of the reunion at SXSW. “In Minneapolis, North Loop is where a lot of people live and a lot of people hang out, so when you go out, you have to mentally prepare yourself: I’m going to run into somebody that I want to see, and I’m going to run into somebody that I don’t want to see.”
It turns out that, in the time between production and the reunion, the cast of Love Is Blind, season eight, saw each other out pretty often. “A lot of us live on the same street,” Danús said. “I run into some people at my favorite coffee shop, so that’s interesting. I mean, we’re cordial, we’re fine, but we definitely see each other even if we don’t necessarily want to.” Sounds like a nightmare to this New Yorker, but we’re happy for those who love the Twin Cities!