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“I think, at this point, I was maybe a little judgmental of the guys who went to LIV Golf at the start, and I think it was a bit of a mistake on my part because I now realize that not everyone is in my position or in Tiger Woods’ position,” McIlroy told the “Stick to Football” podcast in January.

Reality TV offers us a safe space to be judgmental, and “Love Is Blind” offers us an expansive, cushioned one.

It’s a fish-out-of-water comedy although, to Mahesh and Sudha, it is their neighbors who are backward and judgmental, especially Megan Hilty’s busty Janice Mills, the smiling, backstabbing conservative Christian next door.

This is an uncharacteristically bold assertion for any author, much less Woodward, who, throughout his 50-year career, has been the less judgmental half of the Woodward and Bernstein team that broke the Watergate scandal and brought down Richard Nixon.

Murphy and his co-creators could have used any denomination's religious institutional hypocrisy, but the Catholic church is irresistibly theatrical and has a track record of sex scandals and being judgmental.