Is love truly blind? Or are humans actually just loathsome, base-instinct creatures who can’t get past superficial appearances?

Do we really need to answer that?

Regardless, those are the questions awaiting answers in “Love Is Blind,” a new reality dating show premiering on Netflix Feb. 13, just in time to crush any romantic flutters right before Valentine’s Day.

The 10-part, three-week series — hosted by celebrity lovebirds Nick and Vanessa Lachey — attempts to determine whether looks really matter as participants have multiple conversations, or dates, without the benefit of being face to face. Unsurprisingly, the show is brought to you by Kinetic Content, the production company behind “Married at First Sight,” the Lifetime reality show in which couples first meet on their wedding day. (Because that makes sense.)

The early action takes place in a futuristic studio — think a “Star Trek” Borg ship, but with Ikea furniture and lots of plants — that features tiny connected pods. Once inside, contestants can converse with each other one on one, separated by a blue frosted-glass window so that they don’t know what the person they’re talking to looks like.

“Ethnicity, race, physical appearance — none of that matters,” says one male participant, whose statement drips with offensive foreshadowing. “This could be a remarkable love story,” says a woman who clearly never made it past her first audition for “Long Island Medium.”

When, as the official synopsis notes, a “meaningful connection” is made — we assume that doesn’t just mean a mutual love of frosted Pop-Tarts — an engagement proposal takes place and a couple meets for the first time. That’s when the fun begins, as the paired-off paramours are released back into the real world to plan their wedding, figure out whether their new significant other is hot or not (or too old or too young) and deal with previously unaddressed truths.

One contestant apparently has massive student debt! Another couple is mixed-race! Class- and race-baiting are awesome!

Just a guess: Things don’t go well for some of the experimental partnerships.

“This marriage could tear me and my family apart,” says one participant. “You’re bringing me down,” says another to his instant sweetheart, who responds, “You’re bringing me down!”

Cue the scenes of ambivalent brides and grooms near tears at their respective altars, punctuated by a bride dramatically fleeing down a long driveway in her billowy wedding dress, screaming, “I cannot do this!”

The potential for drama has social-media observers reeling.

“Netflix is ruining people’s lifes in 3 weeks. AWESOME,” wrote one commenter about the series’ trailer on YouTube. A different poster just sounded resigned to her binge-watching fate, writing, “This looks so corny, so cheesy and so heterosexual but I’m hella interested in anyways,” while another called it “pure garbage.”

Love may or may not be blind, but reality TV romance is still trash.

“Love Is Blind” will premiere its first four episodes on Feb. 13. Episodes 5 through 9 will debut on Feb. 20, with a two-hour finale on Feb. 27.