The sun-and-sex ratings hit has made its way across the Atlantic with a fancier villa, a cast of toned singletons and a less-than-compelled audience
There’s something oddly poetic and strangely redundant about a stateside spin on ITV2’s feverishly compulsive hit Love Island. It’s an American remake of a British dating show modelled on a dusty American blueprint, making it the televisual equivalent of translating colloquialisms before then translating them back. After an ambitious marketing blitz, this week has seen the malformed Franken-product finally lumbering its way on to US screens, and, so far, it’s looking like it could face a particularly cold summer.
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