Love Island had a semblance of reality to it in Season 1 & 2. You cared about the contestants and got invested in their lives. Then it got very formulaic although Season 4 picked up a little. Now with Season 5 it is so fake and glossy and performative that the contestants all seem like actors. When all the contestants have whiter teeth than the host, something is amiss.
The elaborate intro with everyone doing their real job and then stripping down to their swim trunks / bikini is so cringey. I'm sure the Nashville nurse-the one who drops the dozens of self-conscious F-bombs within her first hour on television-who lets her critical care patient flatline when she gets the Love Islant text will go over well with her employer.
The conversation level has become even more ludicrous and monosyllabic: "I want a boy...but a man not a boy...do you know what I mean?" & "What's yours names?" the latter being an example of the rare plural form of "your."
Get ready for an assault of outdated text-speak such as "literally," "basically," "like," "omg," "whaaat?" "fire" and "as well."
For a show that always deliberately overused the puerile "boy" and "girl" in an attempt to balance out the central concept of strangers sharing a bed every night and keep it G-rated, the introduction of f-bombs and other expletives and trashy slang does not really work.
The elaborate intro with everyone doing their real job and then stripping down to their swim trunks / bikini is so cringey. I'm sure the Nashville nurse-the one who drops the dozens of self-conscious F-bombs within her first hour on television-who lets her critical care patient flatline when she gets the Love Islant text will go over well with her employer.
The conversation level has become even more ludicrous and monosyllabic: "I want a boy...but a man not a boy...do you know what I mean?" & "What's yours names?" the latter being an example of the rare plural form of "your."
Get ready for an assault of outdated text-speak such as "literally," "basically," "like," "omg," "whaaat?" "fire" and "as well."
For a show that always deliberately overused the puerile "boy" and "girl" in an attempt to balance out the central concept of strangers sharing a bed every night and keep it G-rated, the introduction of f-bombs and other expletives and trashy slang does not really work.