Netflix's 'Love Is Blind' won’t revolutionize reality TV, but it does raise an important question: What’s the bare minimum that you need to do to count as a reality-show host?
Vanessa and Nick Lachey not hosting Love Is Blind. Photo: Courtesy of Netflix Love Is Blind, Netflix’s latest entry into trashy reality TV, comes out today. It’s a classic premise ramped up to enjoyably sloppy new heights, as explained by co-hosts Nick and Vanessa Lachey at the start of the first episode. “Welcome to the blind love experiment,” Nick says. “Here, you will choose someone to marry [incredibly long pause] without ever seeing them.
But it’s time to draw a line in the sand, a line that measures the bare minimum someone must do to function as the host of a reality show. Let’s call it the Chris Harrison Line. And let’s also agree that Nick and Vanessa Lachey absolutely do not qualify. A host doesn’t need to be in every scene of a show, or even most of a show. There’s no hard-and-fast rule for how much screen time a host needs, or how much they have to interact with the contestants. This is why the Chris Harrison Line is a helpful standard: On The Bachelor, Chris Harrison is regularly absent. He does not oversee many of the dates. He rarely interacts with the contestants.
Now, let’s look at Nick and Vanessa Lachey on Love Is Blind. At first they seem like hosts. They stand in front of the assembled contestants and explain what’s about to happen. They greet the contestants. Sometimes, very rarely, they’ll even say a contestant’s name. That opening sequence in the first episode, though, where Nick and Vanessa walk out and gravely intone the important purpose of this experiment? That’s the high-water mark of their hosting duties.
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