Love Island
I tend to read 'serious' books and watch 'serious' films, but TV? Sometimes I can just do with a bit of silly, mostly fun and generally inconsequential
stuff...and
Love Island
is all of that.
I was very dismissive and critical first time I watched a few series back - but my 26yr old daughter tells me that for a lot of 20-early 30 somethings what we see - whether we like it or not - is their reality - it's how they speak; it's how the act - with relationships often being transactional and pretty loose and open - especially at first.
What I find actually a bit fascinating is seeing a bunch of lads who really fancy themselves as alpha males - or acting the part of alpha males...and as the girls are generally in control we see the lads real selves come out. Meanwhile the girls - who remember are in control of the lads though the lads don't tend to know or notice that - battle amongst themselves for superiority in pairs or small groups - and some of the girls use (almost) any means to be #1 - the 'alpha' lads almost becoming irrelevant.
