Editor’s note: This original article mistakenly stated that Pari Kim and Tina Zhu Xi Caruso were confirmed season four cast members of “Love on the Spectrum.” This is incorrect, and the article has been updated. We apologize for the error. (But what can we say, we love love!)
It’s all aboard for season four of “Love on the Spectrum” — but will everyone’s favorite queer Jewish couple Pari Kim and Tina Zhu Xi Caruso be on the metaphorical train that is the Netflix reality show?
Yesterday, Tina took to Instagram to “spill the T” that the new season of “Love on the Spectrum” is coming on April 1. (The “T” is how Bostonites refer to the MBTA.) “Pari and I are so proud of the cast of Season 4,” Tina wrote while sharing a lovely photo of herself and her Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority-loving girlfriend Pari.
When one commenter asked whether or not the pair were a part of the cast, Tina responded, “Can’t spill that T.” But added, “Good chance no.”
Say it ain’t so, Tina!
ICYMI, Pari and Tina met on “Love on the Spectrum” last season as a part of Pari’s search to find her “Princess Charming.” On their first date in episode four, the pair almost immediately hit it off, bonding over dietary restrictions, owning orange cats and their identities. Beyond both being queer, autistic women, Pari and Tina soon realized they also shared partial Jewish heritage. “Really? Oh my God, that’s so cool,” Pari exclaimed upon the discovery, beaming.
Later in the season, viewers see Pari and Tina on another date in a sunny garden, where they share their first kiss. And the rest is bashert! The two have been dating ever since.
Though Pari and Tina’s Jewishness didn’t come up again on the show in season three, Tina has expanded upon her Jewish identity online. This past Hanukkah, Tina shared that though her dyslexia and Cortical Vision Impairment made it difficult, she was learning Hebrew. Tina also revealed that she finally felt “Jewish enough.”
“I’m so grateful for every one [who] has made me feel accepted in to the Jewish community online and in Massachusetts this year. Toda to all of you who made me feel Jewish enough,” she wrote in a post for the fourth and fifth nights of Hanukkah. “I have finally felt like I can tell people I’m a Jew.”
A month later, Tina marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day by honoring her Holocaust survivor grandmother, Edith. “1938, Austria. 13-year-old Jewish girl. Her family wasn’t safe. The Nazis were coming. Her family fled one night before Kristallnacht,” Tina said in an Instagram video, reading a poem she wrote comparing her grandmother’s experience leaving her homeland with her own experience leaving China as an orphan child adoptee. “My grandma came to America. I came to America. Two different generations, two different years, two different stories. New language, new country, new opportunities, new home. Loss of homeland, loss of culture, loss of family. Gone, left behind. Lost forever. Finding hope, finding resiliency, finding connection, finding belonging.”
Beautiful.
As Tina revealed, season four of “Love on the Spectrum” debuts on Netflix on April 1, 2026 (which is also the start of Passover, by the way!), so we’ll have to wait a few weeks to see if Pari and Tina get up to any new “T-ventures” or potential explorations of Judaism. Here’s hoping the next stop is unabashed queer, autistic and Jewish pride.
