[Macie Lightfoot]

So random question that I feel like interjecting here -- how does this show actually work? Like, I probably will never watch a minute of Love Island bc I imagine its episodes are kinda difficult to find and being a British TV show there are probably a **** ton of episodes, but what's the format and how does it work? I know Wikipedia says there are winners and losers and **** but how does that all get figured out? And what makes it different from Ex on the Beach (another show that I have absolutely zero plans of watching, but I was recently informed that it is more or less "a horror movie about gonorrhea")?

[Cal.]

Originally Posted by Macie Lightfoot

So random question that I feel like interjecting here -- how does this show actually work? Like, I probably will never watch a minute of Love Island bc I imagine its episodes are kinda difficult to find and being a British TV show there are probably a **** ton of episodes, but what's the format and how does it work? I know Wikipedia says there are winners and losers and **** but how does that all get figured out? And what makes it different from Ex on the Beach (another show that I have absolutely zero plans of watching, but I was recently informed that it is more or less "a horror movie about gonorrhea")?

Basically singles on an island have to couple up. Viewers usually vote for their favourite couple/least favourite couple that they want to eliminate but some eliminations are decided by 'recouplings' where the islanders may change who they are coupled up if they wish (if there's an odd number of islanders at that point the person leftover will go home) and some people can get eliminated when the islanders have to vote on a couple to leave or maybe just one half of the couple to go home. On the final (usually the final 3 or 4 couples), the viewers vote for their winning couple who win 50k. At the end, the winning couple have to chose whether they're going to 'Split' the 50k between each other or 'Steal' the 50k for themselves and the other one gets nothing. Some game playing goes on because some people manipulate others to get into a couple with them even if they have no desire to pursue it just to stay on the island.

It's basically what BBUK was/Survivor US was in the early 00s. It's a phenomenon in the UK at the moment.