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For this month's premium Britainology, we discuss the show Love Island. Neither of us are Love Island watchers so we're coming into this as neophytes, and we ask: what does it say about Britain? Is there something to be learned from watching it? Is there something to be learned from watching people who insist that there's a deeper meaning to it? All this and more

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A.E. Ross

i would say that the one of the things worth discussing in the actual content of the show is how the actual mechanisms of the program aggressively reinforce cis-heteronormativity and how that resonates within the audience.

Andrew Davis

My partner's relative gave both of us COVID right before we went on holiday and we passed the hotel quarantine time enraptured by Love Island every night. After recovering we both tried watching it and found it unbearably boring. I guess this is a real world example of Nate's swimming pool What If?.

Nemo

Everyone on all of these shows - Love Island, Made in Chelsea, etc - sound like they're in a job interview the whole time. which i guess they kind of are. but it's still very unsettling to watch people talk about someone they ostensibly want to fuck as if they're applying for a role as junior marketing assistant