Appearances can be deceptive on Love Island (Virgin Media Two, Monday, 9pm), now in its fifth unstoppable series, in which a mass of hair, hormones and hardbodies are sent away together on a sun holiday. Love Island is one of those shows in the late stage of reality television that encourages its viewer to both actively devour and despise it. His main joke, in the first episode, is to manically suggest that everything we see is available for sale in the Love Island store. Ad-hoc couples try to persuade each other of it, already conscious that they must soon persuade you, the voting public. They bond, of course, over a shared love of biomedical science, which they both studied.

Source: The Irish Times June 04, 2019 09:45 UTC