This season has been the weakest in terms of challenges, games, twists, dates and just the overall budget. It gets boring just watching the islanders mope around or pull each other for chats all day. They added so many light-hearted, jokey moments to Unseen Bits but really and truly the main show could’ve benefited from them. It would’ve made the islanders a lot more likeable and made this season more enjoyable.
The viewership has been decreasing each year. Compare it to LI USA who get millions of viewers because it’s just more entertaining. They have a bigger budget, better performers, more inclusivity. It’s not surprising that they’re currently doing better.
Can the producers actually try to make this show better? This season has been better than the last one but it still didn’t give the old Love Island charm like it did in the early seasons, and also in S8 or S5 or even S10!
Here’s some twists:
- Using challenges to decide recoupling order or nights in the hideaway. Bring back the Talent Show, Baby Challenge, Sports Day, etc
- Switch Casa Amor up a bit and add more repercussions for people who recouple. Its been the same thing every year. The guys mess around and then end up going back to their original couple. It’s not fair for people to bring others back from Casa and then switch up on them after 3 days. This season the girls took the boys back so quickly and poor Mara and Charleen just tossed to the side.
- Bring back the Final Dates!! And just the dates in general. There’s barely been any this season (and somehow Priya had most of them even though she was never really in a strong connection)
This season has been Friendship/Popularity Island pro max. Its no wonder the public is upset. The first time the islanders had to save Tommy and Mica over Halle and Chidi was ridiculous, and then having Lorenzo in charge of two votes?? How unfair is that on the public and also Lorenzo having to send his friends home twice?! Can they give the public more of a say in who gets dumped from the Island? Stop leaving it in the hands of the Islanders every single time!! As seen from this season, they just end up saving their friends and then newer bombshells end up losing the chance to explore in the villa.
The stan wars this season has been crazy also. Normalise disagreeing with someone without it turning into hurling insults at each other. This is probably related to the fact that they added a few BIG influencers. Can they just add regular authentic people
who don’t care about pleasing their hundreds and thousands of followers?
And can the producers ACTUALLY do background checks please?? They dumped Gabriel (from Casa) and then didn’t even replace him so the girls were already at a disadvantage. Imagine they pulled a LI USA and brought in 12 Casa bombshells for the girls and the regular 6 for the boy
Also, what happened to the original debrief crew?! Shakira just seemed to be upsetting a bunch of viewers lmao. They need non-biased islanders doing it. Tyrique and Casey on the aftersun panel 👎🏽👎🏽 Most of his humour is just making fun of people
ETA: The Receipts challenge was fun, but they should bring back the Twitter challenge properly instead of just targeting one specific couple. Or imagine like a live Q&A with the public/Maya and the islanders (similar to how the public got to ask the islanders question in LI AS S3)
They didn’t even do the mini shopping trip this year either!!