The show takes the voyeurism of “Big Brother”, removes any ugly people and pours booze over what remains. Last year we looked at what makes LoveIsland so popular
. John Lanchester’s effort was just one of a glut high-brow takes on “Love Island”, the determinedly low-brow hit show which came to an end last night. A cheap lump of programming designed to plug the gaps between repeats of “Family Guy” on ITV’s second channel has become an unlikely cultural phenomenon. Why?
This simple show provides a canvas on which to project national neuroses and minor moral panics. First when it emerged that more young people had applied to go on the show than had applied to Oxbridge. Then about the lack of people of colour and whether it was fine to declare that your type was “mixed race”. There were accusations of ageism. A 29-year-old female contestant got together with a 20-year-old male, inspiring brutal mockery.
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