On the reality meetings show Love Island USAIt has become usual for men to prepare breakfast for women with whom they are twinned, and not once this season, a competitor named Huda found her morning meal. In an episode broadcast this week, Huda confronted Chris, the man with whom she is currently “coupled” (in the language of the show), for having made a better plate for another woman. “You gave him two pancakes and gave me one. You gave him a flower and you gave none,” Huda told Chris Plaintif. He apologized, but she was still injured. The incident “made me feel like a HO side,” said Huda.
It is easy to make fun of her, and the spectacle in general, for such absurd exchanges. No one has ever taught Huda that comparison is the thief of joy? But I raise the wars of pancakes because, scholarship holder Love island Fans, I think that some of us are guilty of doing the same thing as Huda is – at least metaphorically. Rather than focusing on the party in front of us which is season 7, many of us cannot seem to abandon the way it accumulates alongside the previous iterations of the show, in particular season 6 of last summer.
There is no doubt that last season changed the game for the American version of Love island. Previously, only a niche, the show’s show jumped throughout the summer and at the end of the season, Love Island USA was finally on the way to becoming the kind of cultural phenomenon here that the franchise has long been in its native United Kingdom and elsewhere. Peacock, his house in streaming, increased his marketing before the Olympic Games, and a new host, Ariana Madix, had signed, bringing her own audience for reality TV. But more than anything, the show – which presents a group of “islanders” standing in an isolated villa – was lucky for its part in the form of an unusually attractive and charismatic distribution. When his reunion special was broadcast in August, I was already wondering how producers could possibly complement each other.
The legend of Love Island USA Season 6 took place and the viewers presented themselves en masse for season 7. They have already watched more than a billion minutes since the series returns in June, and Peacock reported that 39% of these viewers are new to Love island. Even those who saw it may have caught up last summer rather than watching live – one of the pleasures of Love island is that it is broadcast six days a week for several weeks, almost in real time. This was the first summer that a general public has been locked up from the start. Although we live in a fractured media environment where nothing is really in mass, the spectacle has managed to feel like everyone, or at least everyone that you follow on social networks, look. Love island has never been so popular.
This, according to whom you ask, has never been worse. It is true: several weeks in the stay of the villa, and almost a week of the final, the consensus seems to be that this season is zero. Where did everything go wrong? Was a drop in quality inevitable, after the flight success of season 6 of last year? Or is the real problem that fans who cannot stop comparing the current season from the program to his break?
The first weeks of the show were dominated by our aforementioned pancake metering queen, Huda, and a relationship she established with a man named Jeremiah. Beautiful but not very uncertain and possessive, Huda is a type of reality reality show quite familiar, but it has nevertheless quickly proven from division among fans, and her coupling with Jérémie suddenly ended when Love islandThe public voted to break them. These votes, led via a companion mobile application that the series strongly promote, are a regular but sporadic characteristic of the viewing experience and have been a reliable source of chaos this season. More specifically, it was a combination of audience votes and distribution decisions on the camera that led to the surprise eviction of Jeremiah and another popular competitor, Hannah, about three weeks after the start of the season, an event that some fans still do not seem to have returned fully. Then, it was time for Casa Amor, the signature touch of the show, designed to throw a key into the existing pairs of the villa by introducing a bunch of new romantic possibilities – at that time, there was barely no strong couple to disturb. There was such a shortage of real connections, in fact, that the producers noticed an online fan movement around a couple, mainly platonic, Nic and Olandria, and essentially forced the two to explore a romance together rather than being eliminated. The whole thing managed to despair, but I did not blame the producers to try it, because they clearly wanted to avoid our current fate, where the villa is overcrowded and stretched and no one really seems to love. I saw several calls on social networks for the season to end early and for the money price to go to the charity or a competitor named Amaya, who is not in a strong couple but has nevertheless become a favorite of fans. Has there ever been a season of Love island With so little love?
I thought a lot about the question of whether it was a “bad” season of the show. I certainly miss some of the competitors of last year – the Féra de Serena, Dramatic Rob, the Queen of One -Liners Leah – and the solid links they had. A current criticism that emerged is that the explosion of the popularity of the program has made too much the share of competitors of this season, too interested in developing their number of followers off the island rather than being open and playing the game. Maybe yes, but it is not as if the casting of last year did not want to be famous – I am the only one to remember the confession of Sweet Kordell that Cheez-ties? (He realized this dream, by the way.) I also miss last season, but I think that the measure in which this season has been a disaster and that production is to blame is overestimated. America always learns to look Love islandHis rhythms and possibilities, and the show always becomes himself, and, so as not to look too much like a primary school teacher, we may have to learn that each season is unique and special in their own way. Sometimes a sexy couple that seems legitimately in love will win, and sometimes, well, a guy with a Napoleon complex will use their time in the villa as a stretch Traitors hearing. The beauty of life, and this show, is that we never know what will happen or what the new bomb is waiting for! Or at least, that’s what I say when I connect to see what’s going on tonight. If nothing else, I hope Huda will have all the pancakes that she wanna.
