By Brianna Alleva
Love Island is currently airing its messiest season yet. The show follows islanders as they couple up, break up, and get back together, all while trying to win $100,000 as the sole couple at the end. Think Big Brother meets Love is Blind.
The show always includes drama, tension, and trainwrecks that everyone loves to watch. Love Island does not shy away from talks about intimacy, appearances, and exploring different people.
Season 8, though I felt like the cast members were kissing a lot and getting equally as pissed when their pairings were doing the same. The point of the show, I think, is to make it to the end as a couple and win money. That’s what is tough about the show: they forget about the money and the possibility of being kicked out of the villa. They are solely focused on getting their feelings hurt, in a game where no one is *technically* in a relationship.
Watching the episodes and the mess, it is clear to me that to have one villain in the show, someone who acts in their own self-interest and doesn’t care about hurting feelings, everyone in a way needs to be their own sort of villain.
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The most villainous episodes have to be the Casa Amor episodes, hands down. Not just because of what it is, a huge temptation on both sides, the boys and girls, but just because of how the girls vs the boys reacted to it.
The boys in the Casa were stoked for all the new girls, while the girls back at the Villa weren’t stoked until they figured the boys were. Both sides are villains in this. The boys are kinda just forgetting about the original girls (except Zach!), and the girls are doing a lot to spite the original boys.
Kenzie is the biggest one who comes to mind just because she was going between two guys while one guy (Dylan) was actually doing the most for her! All to end up choosing Dylan, thank you! Idiotic, but you gotta give it villain-behavior status. The girl just doesn’t know what she wants and makes the worst decision. Could she just be the worst?
Now, sure, some islanders are the worst (Corbin and KC) and who are the best (Bryce and sorta Zach) but overall you have to have a sense of evil to come unto this show.
Meeting multiple people, kissing them all and ultimately making a choice of who to hurt, is crazy TV. Almost so crazy that you forgot its a competition. Putting love and competition together and adding a bunch of 20 year olds in bathing suits, is a recipe for some bad behavior.
Overall, the people who were the least villainous just found the person they actually liked and kept choosing them, not a rare concept in the real world but heroic in the villa.
Even they had their “temptations” and break ups and drama.
Love Island is not actually about finding true love but finding lust that will last until the real world will show them what is up. A humiliation ritual that brings out the worst in everyone.
