Coelen revealed to Vanity Fair that the pods are going to stay the same. "I think it will basically be the same kind of experience," the series creator said.
One surprising fact about season 1 was that there were 40 initial cast members, and two other couple's relationships ended in engagement but they were not filmed. Westley Baer and Lexie Skipper along with Rory Newbrough and Danielle Drouin got engaged, but their stories weren't followed. Newbrough told People that producers explained, "'Hey, we were expecting maybe one or two [engagements]. The shows we've done before, we've never had this much success. We prepared for five. Then we got eight engagements, so we had to pick who we were going to follow.'" Coelen admitted to Vanity Fair that they still might not be able to show everyone in the upcoming seasons.
Production will also continue to have a hands-off approach to make sure the conversations are as genuine as possible. Coelen revealed that initially production debated about whether or not to have talking points, but ultimately decided to let the conversations be organic. "We didn't feel right steering it in a way that didn't feel organic. So everything was really up to them, it was on them," he said.
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