Typically, that twist involves the couples being split up, with half taken to a new villa, and all of them getting new partners for a few days, to see if they’ll like the new options or stay with their old partner. Love Island season 2 does have a major twist waiting, though it’s one that Love Island UK introduced in its third season: Casa Amor. The predictable twist-the show brought in an additional contestant to eventually break up one of the couples-was different only because it brought in another man, Johnny, while season one brought in a woman. The couplings were entirely up to the men. The five women could step forward if they were interested-and then the man could choose woman they wanted, regardless of the woman’s interest. Just like season one, it started with by introducing five women, and then bringing out men one at at a time. What’s changed is the cast and the location, though seeing the fake Eiffel Tower looming nearby, or traffic on the Las Vegas strip, is somewhat comforting compared to the isolation of the Fijian resort, and fits perfectly with Love Island’s neon aesthetic. It’s so far almost identical to season one’s premiere in structure and tone, even repeating some of the same jokes. Love Island makes Holey Moley look like the Mariana Trench, a metaphor I have used before but will repeat because Love Island is just doing the same thing it did last year-and, of course, it’s basically a remix of the lightest, fluffiest parts of dating reality TV.Īnd that is just fine. The cast arrives in “swimsuits the size of your face mask,” as Hoffman said, because there is no pretending that anyone is tuning in for anything with depth. Love Island USA is back on CBS, trading its actual island resort on Fiji for the pool of a Las Vegas hotel-a “disinfected rooftop we’re calling an island,” to quote narrator Matthew Hoffman, who’s still providing wry commentary that gently needles the show’s contestants and, more rarely, the production.
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