Hi, I’m the mod who posts about once a decade. Here’s a quick discussion on a popular TV show I don’t like.
Love Island is a British reality dating show. It is a revival of an earlier celebrity series, though now uses members of the public as contestants instead. Presented by Caroline Flack, the series launched in 2015 and has aired every summer since. However, as of this year, Love Island will run twice a year; once in the summer and once in winter. It’s getting a bit out of hand.
Format
Young, good-looking men and women live together on an island in the Mediterranean; under video surveillance, they are told to couple up – if they don’t manage to, they will have to leave the villa. New contestants are brought in over the course of seven weeks, at the end of which the viewers vote for a winning couple.
Issues
If you’re a fan of the show, there is absolutely no shame in that; the series has an intriguing premise to many, and is very addictive. There are, however, consequences that come with this kind of show. A series centred on drama between filmed individuals makes viewers thirst for tensions – they start to want things to go wrong. With such an outlook, what viewers love more than anything is having a villain. People love to hate.
This would be entirely fine if Love Island were a fictional show involving characters played by actors. But these are real people, with real feelings being treated like shells on which viewers project their classifications. I’m sure I sound overly dramatic suggesting that. It only takes a few glances at Twitter while Love Island airs to see what I mean. The smallest screw-up by a contestant on the show solidifies that person as the newest enemy to the public. That reputation can only be fixed if another contestant does something worse a few days later. Vocal viewers of Love Island are more easily swayed than the Ironborn in Game of Thrones, and will make sure their hatred towards that guy or girl in the Villa is well and truly heard on social media.
Consequences
Imagine, after weeks or even months of isolation, returning to the real world and being confronted with this sea of hatred. Instantly, the whole nation knows you exclusively for an intense few weeks under camera where you were probably too stressed to even be yourself. Contestants from previous years have struggled with this, and some have never made it out. Sophie Gradon, a participant from 2016 and Mike Thalassitis, a participant from 2017, both took their own lives last year and this year.
Conclusion
Really, this should be a wake-up call. If ITV cares about mental health as much as they claim, we should be seeing less of shows like Love Island, not more. It has spawned an international franchise, with new versions in such countries as Australia, Germany, Sweden and the USA. I am personally worried at what could happen across the world with this show growing so huge.
Has anyone heard of Love Island? What are your thoughts on it?
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I don’t like reality shows. Most are not as realistic as portrayed. Survivor was fun for awhile (it is a game show ultimately). Most of the rest came down to public relations. I know it takes a person with a big ego and a need to be the center of attention (make me famous) but I really don’t think people think through the consequences of being on these shows
a psychological experiment, with willing mice…interesting….people are now a cheap commodity….
Yes l hate it but rather than disappearing it’s expanding. ITVBe now has Australian Love Island.
Indeed. I don’t watch it but the ads are constantly on for it anytime I flick over to CH9 :/
Hey.. Never heard of love Island but I’ve seen some reality TV shows.. Alike.. Its quite frustrating as people tend to forget how they were before getting isolated from the normal world. The mental health of a person will greatly get affected
Love Island is also the name of a song by fusion great Eumir Deodato. This is far from my favorite by him, but I’d guess there are some people here who would disagree with me on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZgid4KgY0s
never heard of it. there is a ‘reality’ show called temptation island in america:
https://www.usanetwork.com/temptationisland/episodes?gclid=Cj0KCQiA2ITuBRDkARIsAMK9Q7P9PV8lziLGUNYeVoDKx_6Ao0dnnGyv0AG38cK3UIdVqU055WsleTkaAqwfEALw_wcB
Have not seen any of them…;)
TV to me is a cesspool catering to the worst of human impulses. Featuring the worst humans who will do anything for fame, fortune, and ego gratification. Anything but work hard and honorably for a living.
It sells because fantasy sells. Again, the worst impulses of humans hang around getting something for nothing. Immediate gratification. Material hedonism.
Porn? Reality TV? Dating shows? Even shows like the Sopranos glamorize the bad.
As always, I disclaim being a saint. But I don’t glamorize the worst of my behaviors. And try to rise above my low self. Which is why for the most part I don’t watch tv nor indulge in pop culture.
Meh. I’d rather post here. And on Seeking Alpha looking to make money.
https://youtu.be/m_iU0sxxbiM
Tila Tequila had her own ” A Shot at Love” reality show. It was quite cringe worthy.
https://youtu.be/dyG2m7frIcs
I remember that show. I looked into some stuff she has been doing, recently, and she ain’t playing with a full deck.
I only learned about her because of her support for Richard Spencer.
Yeah, that was her Nazi phase. I don’t know if she is still on that phase, or not. Last I heard, she actually wanted to try to crowdfund a gospel album. I don’t think that it succeeded…
TV to me is a cesspool catering to the worst of human impulses. Featuring the worst humans who will do anything for fame, fortune, and ego gratification. Anything but work hard and honorably for a living.
It sells because fantasy sells. Again, the worst impulses of humans hang around getting something for nothing. Immediate gratification. Material hedonism.
Porn? Reality TV? Dating shows? Even shows like the Sopranos glamorize the bad.
As always, I disclaim being a saint. But I don’t glamorize the worst of my behaviors. And try to rise above my low self. Which is why for the most part I don’t watch tv nor indulge in pop culture.
Meh. I’d rather post here. And on Seeking Alpha looking to make money.
I live there 🙂
No, never heard of it. It seems most tv shows are now being pushed out for these awful reality shows. The one where women degrade themselves sleeping with the bachelor was disgusting enough for me.
There are over two hundred “reality” shows. People watch because they have no life other than on a screen. I wonder if the girls are like strippers, they did not start out with that goal, it was just some small choices that seemed like a good idea at the time. They add up. At least that’s what they tell me and I’m willingly dumb enough to believe them. It’s a cold rainy Tuesday afternoon, the club will be empty, so I’ll probably go over there and loan some kid a jacket while I buy her a seven dollar Irish coffee without the Irish. But I won’t watch Love Island, reality is sad enough the way it is.
I think they mostly watch for entertainment. Like football fanatics, or baseball, hockey, rugby, basketball or tennis watchers. Like I watch Empire series and a few others.
If they were strippers then I commend them for higher pay for doing something they do anyway but it doesn’t make it any better.🙂
Lol! You’re smart Ronson6, you can just about tell if what you’re told has the slightest bit of truth in it. It’s cold here as well but the sun was out. That’s kind of you to do that for someone you don’t know. We need more people like you in this upside down world we live in. I won’t watch Love island either and think you put it quite nicely. Reality is sad enough.
The only so-called “reality” show that I did like was Siberia, but, in that show, they admitted, before they ever even aired the show for the first time, that it was a scripted, fictional show that was made to seem like one of these “reality” shows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ41hEUPYr0
I hate dopey “reality” shows.
Reality shows certainly do have an impact on the mental health of celebrities.
Great thread by the way 🙂
Celebrity is generally not good for mental stability.
Thanks. 😎
To me, these kind of programmes seem to encourage toxic mob mentality towards the participants. Viewers tend to forget they’re also people, and can be horribly affected by what is said about them.
I totally agree and the crazy amounts of money they have, doesn’t always bring happiness.
It’s no Fantasy Island
Lost me at Is a British.
Not a fan of Reality Shows and like a lot of people here…I don’t want TV because I usually watch everything on my Tablet.
I read the title and thought it was an actual Island where lovers go to.😅
Arnell…HEY THERE! 👋 How are you? I thought the same! I was going to see where to sign up! Lol
Howdy do JaeJae.🙋 Life is treating me well, but life needs to give me a Love Island contract.😅
ARNELL!!!! Hey there! Bwahaha…Love island don’t sound so loving to me. It sounds like a nice name for porn…NO LOVE there.😁
Now that you say it that way….😅 I can see an Island home to nudist residents with Tourists coming from around the World to fulfill their wildest fantasies.
Hey watch it, I was in a nudist camp before. Boy! You should have seen some of those😳🤤…oh…nevermind those wouldn’t have interested you…🤣
Hey watch it, I was in a nudist camp before. Boy! You should have seen some of those😳🤤…oh…nevermind those wouldn’t have interested you…🤣
🤔 Oh wow, that’s interesting, mind if I ask the reason you joined and the reason you left? I know some people stay in them permanently while others do so for a limited time. I see JaeJae is quite adventurous with life, I respect that.✊
Haha I didn’t join. I went with a male friend. I thought he was just trying to show me off but they’re were some gorgeous women there and…well..the men…O! MY! FVCKING! GAWD! I thought I was in heaven…lol I only went a few times. They do everything there, even…ahem…it…in the open! I wasn’t down with that but I felt like a lion waiting in the bushes to pounce my prey…lol Yeah most of the things I did when I was younger helped me grow because I was sheltered and watched like a hawk as a child. Pushed to be something in my life, even though my siblings didn’t do Sh!t with there’s. But they were more street smart than I was. 😁
Haha I didn’t join. I went with a male friend. I thought he was just trying to show me off but they’re were some gorgeous women there and…well..the men…O! MY! FVCKING! GAWD! I thought I was in heaven…lol I only went a few times. They do everything there, even…ahem…it…in the open! I wasn’t down with that but I felt like a lion waiting in the bushes to pounce my prey…lol Yeah most of the things I did when I was younger helped me grow because I was sheltered and watched like a hawk as a child. Pushed to be something in my life, even though my siblings didn’t do Sh!t with there’s. But they were more street smart than I was. 😁
😮 Whoa, that’s quite the adventure. I’m not THAT bold to walk around with a group of people wearing my birthday suit and doing the do at that😅. Haha, I respect all of you brave souls. And yeah, I totally understand you for spreading your wings once you got out on your own. I had strict parents myself, although they were not together…I stayed with my mother but often visited my father and his side of the family growing up. Anywho, I’m glad you’re having fun with life!😏
I was scared at first, I was covering my boobs and my…ahem…lol. But after seeing all those jugs and dongs flopping around playing volley ball I got a little more comfortable. 😁 The main thing that made me uncomfortable was the ones that was openly having relations. I always say, I have nothing to lose, especially after my near death experience nothing was off the table.😁 But as I get older, I get wiser. I can look back and say I missed nothing except my childhood. 😁
Howdy do JaeJae.🙋 Life is treating me well, but life needs to give me a Love Island contract.😅
Never heard of it. I have three Tvs. No cable.I don’t watch TV. If I want to watch something I’ll get a DVD. I do like ME TV. Reality show not for me.
i have no idea, i have no TV and have never heard of most shows including this one
i watch old stuff from before my parents were born on youtube
music and movies, no series, Lizabeth Scott is my fav. actress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CxhHeH3r2U
I don’t remember have watched one reality show either.
But I watched the same old movies recently too.
I watched Roman Holiday for couple of times along with Sabrina and Breakfast at Tiffany’s. They are sweet and addictive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvu52ESt0Ks&list=WL
yes, roman holiday is cute, i saw it again about a month ago
but most of all i like hard boiled noirs, like the one i posted
All Audrey’s movies I watched are cute and I like them all.
I watched the video you posted. I added it to my watch list just now.
Thanks for sharing Red Rose.
Have a good day ahead…:))
Never heard of it before, and I don’t think I ever will again. 😎
Good… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4101cc2b9d6155a14fef711b579dcbd4f13afc0fc761a66e947a4a7f83170a4f.jpg
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MnQ_mp9TzZY
Not into reality TV.
Me either, but yes on some TV series.
Me either, but yes on some TV series.
I hate reality shows …. there is nothing real about most of them.
Here is the funny thing … I grew up in South Florida … It sounds very much like this TV show … except we called it high school.
This is the Bathtub beach … when the tide goes out the reef holds like 2 feet of water near the beach .,.. its like a huge salt water swimming pool that is two feet deep and crystal clear with no waves …
Sometimes I miss florida … https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f02884f18c3229b56c19dd906909fa57121a7e2e8aa003a4ffaf033fd16df0db.jpg
I have not watched one either, I don’t think I will like it.
That is very interesting, Stan. A bathtub reef beach….wow
I haven’t heard about it before although I have some good friends in some difference parts of Florida: Jacksonville, Ponte Vedra, Palm Beach, Fort Myers.
That beach is north of West Palm Beach in Stuart.
Good to know.
Thank you, Stan.
I don’t watch TV and have not heard of this. However, I am no fan of reality TV either.
I watch youtube now …. we don’t even own a tv set anymore.
I am currently watching Lindybeige … he does historical videos …
With the internet … and the fact that I can watch any tv show made and choose the good ones …
So offer me a episode of “love Beach” or whatever its called …
And I would just watch an old episode of Sanford and Son https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA-PRRfjed8
Hahaha…I vaguely recall Redd Foxx on that show.
he was a great comedian… He made me laugh more than any other TV celebrity during my youth.
I’ve actually had the privilege of seeing part of an old stand-up appearance of his. Freakin’ hilarious.
The lady who played Aunt Ester was also a stand up comic. Red Fox knew her before his TV show and that’s why she is on it.
She was great on the TV show … but the couple stand up performances I found were not that impressive .. although she was shocking and dirty and that was a show from a woman at that time ..
I was but a wee tyke back then. I hardly understood what was so funny, but I remember watching Sanford & Son a few times.
It was reruns when I was a kid … they still played it and many other old (at the time) tv shows ….
Like Gilligans Island and Lost in Space ….
I guess TV does not do reruns anymore
Hahahaha….I remember Lost In Space too. We have something called MeTV which has all that old stuff in rotation.
https://www.metv.com/
Same here.
Such formates (I paint them with a broad brush and count lower class focused reality TV as one segment of TV entertainement with different facettes) are ugly. Their entertainement factor in large parts resides in the cringe factor of watching the participients do or say stupid stuff so that the semi intelligent couch potatoe watching the show may feel exalted by their superior wisdom and the benefit of hinsight that reality TV grants its watchers when they discuss with each other the supidity of the acting cast.
About love island can be said the similar things as this late hate host says about another reality TV show
(switch on english subs!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG_Fyc-nyOs
I never watched reality TV. If I went on Survivor, all my fellow contestants would be mysteriously eaten by alligators. Can I have my million now?
I don’t remember have ever watched any either.
Be that Survivor first then claim your millions after that…:))
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That is beautiful. I love it.
I am only about leaving the office.
Sending the invites then come back later.
Have fun with your thread, Bro.
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Thanks so much for getting it up and sending the invites so fast. Sorry again for being so long without much input. Hope you’re having a good day. 😊
Most welcome, Roach.
Feel free to let me know anytime you have the same issue.
Meanwhile, I will email you the link to access to your account to the site.
Don’t you still have the password?
I had a good day, thanks. A bit busy but all is good.
I hope you are having a wonderful day now? :))
Thanks Murn, and sorry I do have the login and password still. I remembered how to access just after sending you that email. My day has been good thanks!
Hi Roach,
What I meant beautiful in that earlier comment was how beautiful your writing and review. I don’t know that reality show at all, I don’t even remember watching a reality show. If I have time for TV, I would prefer to watch TV series that I like: Downtown Abbey, Tudor, Vampire Diaries, Game of Thrones and Vikings are some of the TV series I’ve watched. I know you’ve watched some too…:))
Thanks for your kind words. I’ll try and post something else soon, maybe on a film or book or on writing. Reality shows are not worthwhile in my opinion, especially if you’re not already into them.
I’ve seen maybe one episode of Downton Abbey and Vampire Diaries, all of the Tudors (very well-done series) but still none of Vikings. Game of Thrones is still my favourite, even though the ending was rushed. I’m still hoping the final two books will be released. 😁
It’s often that something we don’t like, others like it.
Look at the number of comments you have on your thread, that proves it…:)
I guess people who come to reality shows are people who have a lot of time or they are looking for opportunities to be known. It’s a good topic and the way you review it, is what I like the most. Something you write is so much difference than if I write.
I like the Tudors too. I think I watched them all but will need to watch them again if I want to make them a topic as it’s been quite awhile.
Yess, GoT ending was too rush. It should still be longer. I think they will surprise us by releasing the rest of the books, I hope the same….:))