Netflix’s ‘The Ultimatum’: Everything to Know About the Reality TV Show By ‘Love Is Blind’ Creators
06.03.2022 - 20:07
/ usmagazine.com
Ready to walk down the aisle? Fresh off the conclusion of Love Is Blind season 2, Netflix is gearing up for another romance-centered reality TV show in The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On.
“On Love Is Blind, you both know [that] you want to get married before ever seeing each other,” Nick Lachey teased the new concept during the season 2 reunion, which aired in March 2022. “But in Netflix’s new dating series, The Ultimatum, six couples have come to a point in their own relationships where one person is ready to be married and the other, well, isn’t.”
Developed by the same creators, The Ultimatum brings together a group of couples as their relationships hit crossroads.
“In this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, these couples will put their relationships to the ultimate test with the hopes that they’ll walk away ended to the person that they are truly meant to be with,” cohost Vanessa Lachey added during the Love Is Blind reunion special.
The former 98 Degrees crooner further explained that each participant is compatible with “multiple partners” and must select a new person to date, and live with, for the duration of the three-week experience in a “trial marriage.” By the finale, they each must decide whether they want to marry their original partner or break up for good.
The 10-episode reality TV series was conceived by Kinetic Content and producer Chris Coelen, who also created Love Is Blind. The second season of the pod-based dating show premiered on the streaming platform in February 2022, in which only two couples tied the knot: Danielle Ruhl and Nick Thompson and Jarrette Jones and Iyanna McNeely.
“[Nick] and I fell in love so quickly and because we both knew at the end of the day we wanted to stay together, we did feel so