Temptation Island

With all the hyped-up reality TV programming currently on the air, basically every major network is coming up with new reality shows. This has got to be the absolute bottom. Temptation Island is a show about a group of people who go to a deserted island (where else?) with a significant other, and strippers try to woo the guy away from his girlfreind.

It is the stupidest premise for a reality show, and THAT is saying something, considering all reality TV shows are garbage. In the fact that people watch couples get torn apart from they're loved ones by strippers while people watch it on TV for entertainment really makes you think about where the human race is heading.

They say that all great societies reach a point from where they can go no higher and that one can only go down from there. It happened to the Romans, it happened to the Brits and I believe it's beginning to happen to us.

I think our current fascination with lurid and pointless shows such as this one is symptomatic of the excesses with which we lead our lives. At the risk of sounding like the ultimate pessimist, I can only see us descending into a society of apathetic, uninformed individuals. I believe we've already entered that phase.

Your moment of enlightenment.

I don't watch TV. Because it plain bores me. Legal dramas are the only shows with a slight bit of intelligence to them, but other than that - 65 channels and nothing on. Actually I lost my TV-watching habits years ago and I don't even own a TV-set anymore.

I was visiting home and my mom (figure that!) told me to watch this new show called "Temptation Island". I was familiar with the concept of reality television - during my TV-watching days I used to be a fan of the only, true & original "MTV's The Real World", the show that started it all. But the small bits and pieces I had seen of all the newer "reality" shows ("Big Brother", "Survivor" etc) didn't create any interest in me.

Well - from the moment I sat down in front of "Temptation Island", I was hooked. Sure, they made mistakes - Taheed and Ytossie being the most glaring one. Sure, they played the couples against each other at times to create extra tension, which wasn't very nice. And sure, they used false statements when advertising the show - actually there were no strippers or "professional seducers" on the island. All the singles were above average attractive and thus successful, but by far not "strippers and seducers" as advertised. The supposed presence of those by the way seems to be the main complaint of the first reviewer here - its obvious that the person hasn't even watched the show.

Inspite of those small mistakes, I found the relationships, guilt, doubts, tears, laughter, revenge, lust, forgivness, despair, everything that happened on the island an absolutely mesmerizing package. As I did not own a TV-set myself, I had to make it a point not to miss a single episode and watched the show whereever I could.

The show's over - and once again, I don't watch any TV. But with Temptation Island 2 on the way, this will most probably change yet again:)

Four couples test their devotion to each other by being parted for several weeks on separate parts of an island whilst being wooed by men and women.

The first series had me hooked for episode one! It's so funny. And it's so much better than Survivor! Of all the reality TV shows, this one is by far the trashiest, corniest, stupidest and ultimately, the best.

Well, I became a great fan of this show when I started watching it, since I'm a guy looking for a girlfriend for me to love, cherish and go out with, and that day, my father suggested me to watch that show since it will help me to comprehend other people's feelings and then I told him that I will watch it and learn more about how are the feelings of other people.

And also in this show I discovered how sensitive could other girls be when it's about watching their boyfriends of what they are doing while they are separated, the feelings of that girl is really sensitive and there are some couples that respect each other and they both end up living together, some of them end up breaking their relationship, and some of these couples end up breaking up for a time and then they get back together by moving to the boyfriend/girlfriend's home and living together.

I thank my father for suggesting me to watch that show, it really helped me a lot to comprehend other people's feelings and I will learn that sometimes the love, isn't always the pink color, which means that sometimes is very sad and tragic.

That is all I have to say about that.

Giancarlos Calderon