A trucker, Jack Haines (Ben Murphy), is sitting outside a bar in his truck preparing to shoot a man he believes is sleeping with his wife. While brooding over what he plans to do inside the bar, downing a beer or two, an enigmatic blind man (Sneezy Waters), with a bullet wound scar in his temple, singing a set, performs a song that practically describes in detail what Jack is feeling, his life, and what he is contemplating. Confronting Jack, this blind man will attempt to persuade him not to jump to conclusions and let his jealous rage cloud is judgment. Good showcase for blues musician Sneezy Waters who has a devil's grin, but cherubic intentions for the miserable Haines, so mad he can barely hold himself together. This episode doesn't condemn or justify Haines who has skeletons in his own closet such as multiple affairs in various states, but he may be forgiven for these sins and allowed to see the results of making the wrong choice of attempting to kill "the other man". Character actor Eric Keenleyside (who has starred in a ton of sci-fi, horror, and action on television) has a nice part as a bartender who often communicates with Haines or to others about the topical character of Elaine (Cindy Girling), not knowing that the very man he has been supplying liquor to has designs on shooting her supposed lover in cold blood. I guess, ultimately, "Love Is Blind" is about allowing a consuming fire of jealousy to overwhelm you to the degree that you could make a regrettable mistake which could come back to haunt you.
6 Reviews
Pretty Good
rachel-6923210 May 2020
This is a really creepy and well told episode. Good acting too. The viewer can feel Jack Haines anger and bitterness very clearly. He has the typical double standard of a cheating spouse though. There is a real sense of atmosphere throughout.
Impressive
brainybrailler12 May 2008
This was one of the more interesting episodes of the New Twilight Zone that lasted a whole half hour, but especially since this was an original work. Imagine that you enter a bar with Ken Medema (oh, all right, if you don't know who he is, he's a blind inspirationalist singer/pianist who's a genius at improvising songs based on stories heard on the spot since 1973) performing on his instrument, when he suddenly plays a song that accurately describes your relationship at home - not just generally, but to every detail. If you're wondering what to do to reconcile with your other half, he'll run through the myriad of possibilities you've already examined. If you're unsure how to gently say the relationship is at a standstill and you desperately want out, he'll go through what you've considered saying but will also mention the reasons you can't say them, how long you've been together. And, if like Jack Haines (Ben Murphy), you've overheard a phone conversation and arrive intending to shoot the man your wife is meeting, the night's blind guitarist will sing a song to his wife (though he doesn't specify that) of a decade, saying he regrets the emotions he feels and choice he feels led to based on what he overheard on the telephone. After, he approaches Jack by name and asks him how he liked the song. Jack is even more bewildered when he explains that he knew specifically about Jack's situation and that was why he sang it, and desperately advises him to recant his decision. Jack encourages him to leave him and confront another, but the guitarist explains the reason he was called to the bar apparently was Jack - when he lost his eyesight, he gained the gift of realizing strong enough thoughts and also to become a skilled musician, partly for those people...which is why he knows nothing of Jack's wife or the man she'll meet, and not just because they haven't arrived yet. Jack doubts the man is blind, but snatching off the dark lenses he wears, he learns he is. This is a really amazing story, definitely memorable. The battle of wits between the two main characters is clever and well-done, the acting is great, and the last few scenes - the action scene which had an unexpected result which I won't spoil, the way the blind guitarist kept showing up, what was learned about Jack's best friend afterward, and the last ability the songs are revealed to hold was incredible. My congratulations to the writer on this gem. I wish there were more like it - in almost every way possible, it reminds me of what a title reading The Twilight Zone should contain.
Second Chances
Hitchcoc5 July 2017
I thought this one was quite good. The blind guy obviously had lots of work with all the hotheads and reactionaries in the world. This involves an over the road trucker who suspects his wife will be cheating on him in a bar. He waits with a gun under his shirt, ready to kill her and the other guy. But along comes a blind blues singer who seems to get in his way at every opportunity. The interesting thing about the guy is that he seems to be able to see things, even more quickly than a sighted man. This is really a classic ghost story and it is pulled off nicely.
Blindsided
sol-kay29 July 2011
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS*** Trucker Jack Haines, Ben Murphy, is mad as hall in finding out that his wife Elaine, Cindy Cirling, is to meet her secret lover at the Mustang Bar and make lovely dovey with him over a couple of drinks.
Driving to the Mustang Jack with a gun in his pocket murder on his mind and a stomach filled with booze sits at the bar and has a few drinks waiting for Elaine's, who's sitting in her favorite booth, lover to show up and that then blast him to kingdom come. While he's waiting the guitar playing singer at the bar Sleezy Waters comes up to Jack and starts making small talk with him. Waters who's blind from a bullet he got in his skull after the boyfriend of the women he was fooling around with tried to off him but only ended up killing her instead.
Jack seems shocked that the blind guy knows so much about him and the situation the he now finds himself in. Telling Jeck to cool off and let thing fall into place and not try to push things by gunning down whoever Elanie is waiting for has Jack get so irrigated at Waters that you for a moment think that he would ends up gunning him down before Elain'e boyfriend shows up at the bar! In fact a moment later Elaine's boyfriends does show up and he turns out to be Jack's best friend fellow trucker Taylor, Steve Adams. Not listening to Waters to keep his distance Jack confronts a shocked Taylor and pulls his gun out gunning down not Taylor but Eliane who just happened to get into the line of fire!
***SPOILERS*** On the run with the entire town, police and civilians, hot on his tail Jack starts to realize that he killed his wife not because she was cheating, she and Taylor were planning to surprise him with a new set of tire hubcaps, on him but because he was too hot headed and stupid to listen to the advice that the blind man gave him. But there's a catch to all this and it's Jack himself who's given another chance by the blind man to correct his previous mistake. A mistake that that would not only put Jack behind bars for the rest of life but end up taking the life of his wife Elaine as well!
Driving to the Mustang Jack with a gun in his pocket murder on his mind and a stomach filled with booze sits at the bar and has a few drinks waiting for Elaine's, who's sitting in her favorite booth, lover to show up and that then blast him to kingdom come. While he's waiting the guitar playing singer at the bar Sleezy Waters comes up to Jack and starts making small talk with him. Waters who's blind from a bullet he got in his skull after the boyfriend of the women he was fooling around with tried to off him but only ended up killing her instead.
Jack seems shocked that the blind guy knows so much about him and the situation the he now finds himself in. Telling Jeck to cool off and let thing fall into place and not try to push things by gunning down whoever Elanie is waiting for has Jack get so irrigated at Waters that you for a moment think that he would ends up gunning him down before Elain'e boyfriend shows up at the bar! In fact a moment later Elaine's boyfriends does show up and he turns out to be Jack's best friend fellow trucker Taylor, Steve Adams. Not listening to Waters to keep his distance Jack confronts a shocked Taylor and pulls his gun out gunning down not Taylor but Eliane who just happened to get into the line of fire!
***SPOILERS*** On the run with the entire town, police and civilians, hot on his tail Jack starts to realize that he killed his wife not because she was cheating, she and Taylor were planning to surprise him with a new set of tire hubcaps, on him but because he was too hot headed and stupid to listen to the advice that the blind man gave him. But there's a catch to all this and it's Jack himself who's given another chance by the blind man to correct his previous mistake. A mistake that that would not only put Jack behind bars for the rest of life but end up taking the life of his wife Elaine as well!
A good idea or two, but lame execution lets it down
Leofwine_draca16 March 2015
This was the first episode I watched of THE NEW TWILIGHT ZONE and maybe it wasn't a good place to start. LOVE IS BLIND tells a simple, trite story about a jilted husband with murder in mind and a blind singer who seems to have psychic powers alongside an ability to see the future. The two men meet up in a bar on one fateful night...
The production values of this episode are pretty poor, as it has a generally cheap look and feel to it throughout. The scant running time means that the story never has time to develop. While the character of the blind singer is an intriguing one, too much of the short running time is made up of cheesy chase scenes with the cops involved. The acting also felt rather mannered, making this hard to like.
The production values of this episode are pretty poor, as it has a generally cheap look and feel to it throughout. The scant running time means that the story never has time to develop. While the character of the blind singer is an intriguing one, too much of the short running time is made up of cheesy chase scenes with the cops involved. The acting also felt rather mannered, making this hard to like.
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