Nine Reasons Why LoveIsland Really Isn't Hitting The Same This Year
Let’s be very clear, we don’t watch Love Island for its comic genius. We’re not expecting Succession levels of comedic nuance. But for the love of God we want to enjoy it, and at the moment our enjoyment levels are lower than New Zealand’s Covid case rate.
The banter has flowed through the previous six seasons of this show like a river, but now it has run dry. We have the World’s Least Funny Man, Liam, mumbling that he ‘likes pineapple’, and Brad banging on about how he likes to go for a coffee on a Saturday morning. Faye and Kaz are funny enough but they can’t carry this show alone, and human interaction with this little banter is genuinely painful to watch.
This cast is letting us down badly on the jokes front, and if I have to watch one more bone dry scene between ‘the lads’ guffawing over someone picking up the wrong pair of shorts, rather than making up a rap a la Kem and Chris, or acting out Harry Potter scenes a la Jordan and Tommy, ITV is in danger of losing some of its most loyal Love Island viewers... US.