Meet Chris Coelen, the mad scientist behind the unconventional and compulsively watchable LoveIsBlind.
Love Is BlindCoelen, 54, knows that many people consider reality TV junk food in an era of Michelin-star scripted fare. “Most of the reality programming out there, it’s shit,” he acknowledges. “Most of it is schlock. It’s not well done. And that’s partly because people treat it like a fucking factory.” So what makes his reality threesome so undeniable?
“The kind of storytelling that we do on our shows is completely unique,” he says with an earnestness that belies the frothy fun of his shows. “We try to get very deep into people’s truths. We’re not shying away from a conversation about abortion”—one features heavily inseason three—“and also not pushing them to have that. It’s just trying to understand the layers of what makes those people human…. We’re not making up stories.
Though the reality-television business as we know it is still a rather modern construct, most of the franchises that endure today are pushing middle age.will soon air its 35th, and more than 40 people have stepped into the role of either Bachelor or Bachelorette.
Making reality-television magic involves a fair bit of luck, but the people I call to talk about Coelen attribute his success to preparation. “He’s obsessive in all the right ways,” sayswho leads unscripted and alternative entertainment at Hulu and ABC, where Kinetic produces the competition series“Other people will sell a show, pass it off to their executives, and then kind of move on.
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