Ilha do Amor

Love Island US was so boring! And I feel like the season was so short. There wasn't enough new people that came in the villa to challenge the couples. I feel like US version was missing a lot!

The dumbest blondes, the stupidest tarts, and the trashiest loser guys all meet on Love Island which should really be called Skag Street or Herpes Heaven. These folks make you hope that at the end of the series they are given a lot of money to move out of the USA, and voluntarily seek citizenship somewhere else. Hopefully none of them will ever have children.

And I love Love Island UK!! In fact I'm addicted to the UK version! But the American version, which I had a lot of hopes for, is just... depressing. The colors are dark, everyone talks about being "safe" instead of the majority of people actually looking to find love like they are on the UK version. It took me a bit to warm up to Ian Sterling's narration from the UK, but the narrator for the US is borrrrring... I'm sorry, but he is. In the UK, Carolyn Flack is a much better host than the girl from the US. The colors need brightened up big Time!! Needs a new host, new narrator and stop telling everyone what they need to do with each new person when they're recoupling!!! Arrrgh! Gets on my nerves!

"Like do you like like me or like do you like the new girl?"... "It's like not that like I dont like you because like I do like you, but like..." Brace yourself, if you plan on watching this show, to hear a whole lot of conversations just like that! I don't even know how these people find the time to actually get to know each other with how much they say the word 'like'. Must take ages. And watching them make out is disgusting. I dont mind a bit of PDA but every kiss is turned into an attempt at a porn audition. Nobody wants to see full on tongues flailing and slobber flying. It's not sexy or passionate it's nasty. In my final thought, the narrator on this US version is dreadfully annoying and not a single bit funny. I wouldn't expect him to live up to Ian from the British version, who is hilarious, but this guy is a complete joke, and I'm not talking about his jokes. I like the British version of Love Island, but we can add this to the long list of British shows that the US attempts to remake that's nowhere near as good.... Shameless, The Office, Skins, Inbetweeners, Outnumbered, Fawlty Towers, even Ex On the Beach, and there's about 100 more.... If you're American like me, but have only seen the US version of these shows you are seriously missing the plot!

I went into this show with little to no expectations and came out really enjoying it for the most part. My absolute favorite part of it is the announcer, who is incredibly hilarious throughout the entire series. He will call out the the cast and production team both with no hesitation, when most announcers sugar coat everything or basically say whatever production wants them too. He's wonderful. The casting is done well too. I found myself really loving most of the cast, with the exception of the ones I just couldn't stand, which makes for great television.

There are some MAJOR downsides however, and all come from the production. There are a couple (not all) cast members that are so overly produced that it's obvious they're playing a character. When they bring in new contestants it's totally random. Sometimes 1 guy. Sometimes 2 guys and a girl. Sometimes 6 people. Also they have these "challenges" that are good for absolutely nothing. The winner never actually wins anything. Also during the show some cast get wayyyyy more screen time than others, which isn't fair at all considering how the public votes for which couples they want to stay. An example is the "random" dates some of the couple's get to go on. From what I've seen only the fan (or producers) favorites get to go on these dates, in turn getting them more screen time, and more public votes at the end of the day. Most couples don't get these "random" dates. Some cast members won't even be seen in some episodes. How are we supposed to vote for someone we forget is there? Another thing is the randomness of the "Re-Coupling" as they call it. Who decides the order they get to pick their partners? The answer is the producers. A good example is when a new girl came in and got to pick her partner before most of the other girls, which in turn caused one of the girls that had been there longer to quit. I don't blame her either. She so obviously got screwed over by production. Another small thing, not that big a deal, but production making the cast freak out when they get a text "I GOT A TEXXXT!!!, is so obviously stolen from The Challenges' "I GOT A CLUEEEEE!!" That they would make them do over there. They're way more annoying about it on here, and should tone it down just a tad.

If they could just fine tune some things and make it actually somewhat fair, it would be way better. When new islanders come in, they should alternate. Two guys and a girl, then 2 girls and a guy, so during the coupling ceremony they can also alternate from girls picking, to guys picking instead of girls picking two or three times in a row. Also the winner of the challenge should either be the one that wins the date (and more screen time) and/or decide the order that the islanders get to pick their dates. That's the biggest thing. Make the challenges mean something and let the cast pick the order they get to pick their dates, and alternate from guys to girls at every coupling ceremony. I know the English version is new so hopefully it'll learn from it's mistakes. I mean, Big Brother and Survivor started out shaky but got better so I'm hopeful this will too.