Love Island makes it extremely difficult for contestants to remain monogamous, even in a system that rewards monogamy
, in which it’s illegal for people to be single. “Winning is about moving from the apparent purgatory and pain of being alone to the virtuous delivery of partnering up.”
But you could make this same argument for all reality television dating shows, in which everyone is faking it—“it” being everything. Most reality TV dating shows, from theculminate in coupledom as a sign of success, but contestants couple up from the start onreveals its true intentions not in the smiling faces of its performatively happy couples, but in how most of the pairs deteriorate. It doesn’t matter if you’re actually in love, couples will go far if they just don’t fuck it up.
.Despite being an incubated respite from the outside world, teeming with strangers to sleep with, the show is a conservative obstacle course designed to make couples cheat and break even the flimsiest of bonds by introducing new prospects at random. One night, two models might walk into the villa. Another morning, contestants might wake up to find a gorgeous hunk swimming in the pool.
to the disposable ways men treat partners. I’m reminded of the rhythms of the now largely dead commercial rom-com and howappears to take us on a similar, uphill romantic journey, only to have couples tumble backward in Sisyphean style, rewarding the cynics. But while the smiley, lovey-dovey seriousness of the competitors may be performative, the pain contestants seem to feel when they’re broken up with or cheated on—as good girl Amy Hart does when the goofy “dad” of the household, Curtis, begins to have feelings after Casa Amour in Season 5, or when Laura Anderson is blindsided by a break-up in Season 4 by Wes Nelson—doesn’t feel fake.
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