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No spoilers but reality show Love is Blind has been busy producing a new season in Seattle with frequent sightings of the crew and contestants and takeovers of Capitol Hill venues.

Last weekend, the crew followed a couple around on the streets and inside northern Broadway’s self-pour wine and beer cafe Rapport. The production also tied up E Pine’s Fogon for a recent day of shooting.

The show’s premise seems likely to inject equal parts romance and cringe into Capitol Hill’s already hot and bothered dating scene. The Netflix series follows 15 men and 15 women who meet in the show’s custom “pods” — “where they can talk to each other through a speaker but not see each other,” Wikipedia reports — until someone pops the question and they get to meet. At that point, presumably, the show helps us collectively experience the triumph of love over beauty… right?

With two seasons already in the can and streamable, the show is reportedly pumping out three more seasons worth of episodes — each season centered around a city. Dallas production has apparently wrapped. Seattle has been underway.

For Seattle, producers put out the casting call last fall. Application questions included “Are you open to dating someone who is divorced and/or has children,” “What are your deal breakers?” and “Where are you currently meeting potential mates?” and applicants had to be 21 and over. Perhaps revealing their hand in all of this, producers also required candidates to include a headshot.

With the growth of streaming services, the appearance of production crews around major cities has become increasingly routine. On Capitol Hill, if it is not a streaming series production, you’re probably looking at a car commercial being filmed. We’ve come a long way from just six years ago when MTV’s the Real World took over the neighborhood and the city’s entertainment headlines including stories of weird contracts, police interventions, and a 12th Ave office building turned temporary reality show living quarters.

You’ll have to wait a bit before you can tune into the Seattle version of the show. The Dallas-based third season of Love is Blind is expected to premiere first later this year.

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