The best thing about Love Island, the thing that makes it truly great, is that it's as bad as you expect
Jack and Dani. Photo: ITV/REX/Shutterstock In our era of peak TV, I have renounced pretty much everything except Love Island. This probably makes me sound more abstemious that I really am — for two months each summer, Love Island airs a staggering six nights a week. Since the first week of June, I have devoted nearly 50 hours of my life to this marathon viewing experience, which culminates tonight in the crowning of the U.K.’s most popular couple .
Love Island’s “rules,” insofar as they exist, are as follows: a group of sexy young singles are quarantined at a luxury vacation home on Majorca decorated in a manner I can only describe as “as if someone took an Ambien before placing a wholesale order at Pottery Barn Teen.” The islanders must successfully pair up or be sent packing during periodic “recoupling ceremonies.
This comes in handy, as there are only two kinds of outfits permitted in the villa: swimsuits and club looks. It’s possible that you are waiting for the point at which this piece becomes an academic treatise, and I “unpack” everything Love Island has to teach us about “the human condition” or “the way we live now.” If so, unfortunately you’ll have to keep waiting . The truth is that the best thing about Love Island, the thing that makes it truly great, is that it is bad. And unlike most things that are bad, which is to say most things generally, Love Island is not deluded about its own quality.
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