CBS' Love Island feels almost tame compared to the British original

The A.V. Club

"The American version of Love Island faithfully mimics most of the important, superficial aspects of the original: the ear-worm techno transition music, the 'surprise' introduction of new contestants, the phone on which the islanders receive messages from the producers, the sense that all of this has been thrown together in a day, because it has," says Eric Thurm. "Some of the other elements that make the British Love Island work so well don’t quite translate on this side of the Atlantic," from host Arielle Vandenberg to the narrator...In some ways, American Love Island feels almost tame. The women spend a big chunk of the episode scheming ways to 'keep their men,' in language that wouldn’t sound out of place coming from Scheana on Vanderpump Rules. But Vanderpump Rules this is not."

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