MOVIE: Love Is Blind Season 5 Episode 8

Episodes 8 and 9 of the Netflix dating show’s fifth season dropped on Friday and find the couples in the final stages of preparation for their trips down the aisle. Obviously, Nick Lachey took the dudes out for tux fittings while his wife and co-host Vanessa joined the ladies as they tried on wedding dresses (with fan-favorite contestant Renée in tow). But first, there was the back half of that cocktail mixer from last week—which, as we now know, devolved into a shouting match about “toxic masculinity.”

However exes Lydia and Uche wound up on this show together, their bad history has soured much of this season. (Love Is Blind creator Chris Coelen recently told  that the show had no idea the two knew each other until after they’d figured it out but allowed them to proceed as long as they didn’t immediately tell their castmates.) First, Aaliyah—whom Uche began blind-dating in the show’s “pods”—left the season early because she couldn’t handle Lydia’s oversharing about their past relationship. Then, there was that exhausting talk last week between Uche and Lydia, which ended with her storming off. Now, there’s Uche’s equally tiresome conversation with Lydia’s Love Is Blind partner, Milton—a 24-year-old STEM major who seems convinced that Uche is just not good enough at math to understand human relationships.

Like any reality show, Love Is Blind has aired its share of personal clashes. Amber from Season 1 seemed to have just a little too much fun being mean to her former romantic rival from the pods, Jessica, and last season, Irina’s mean girl vibes sparked backlash online. Still, there’s something different about this season. Maybe it’s because Aaliyah, this year’s most compelling romantic hero, went home early that this season seems more interested in petty drama than it is in romance.

Uche tries to warn Milton that Lydia’s communication skills might not be the best for long-term relationship success, but this engineer is simply not hearing it. “This isn’t the Pythagorean theorem,” Milton tells Uche. “This is like multidimensional calculus.” As far as he’s concerned, the conflict between Uche and Lydia is between Uche and Lydia—whose perspectives will naturally differ from his own. “We’re all on different directional planes,” Milton coolly tells Uche. “It is what it is.” He later tells Lydia that he’s not sure Uche got the message, because “he’s no engineer.