Here’s What You Should Watch: Reality Dating Show Edition!

Art by Eve Loehrer | Editor-in-Chief

Love Island (UK)

By Menaka Garapaty | Editor-in-Chief

No reality dating show, from The Bachelor to Too Hot To Handle, can compare to the brilliance of Love Island UK. To be completely transparent for this review, I have only seen one type of Love Island, that being the UK version. And I have only seen season eight, as each season can be from 45 to 60 episodes long. But I do not need to watch any more seasons or versions of Love Island to tell you that Love Island UK is top tier. The Hulu show follows a group of British “bombshells” looking for love over eight weeks in an island villa. They pull each other for chats, complete challenges,

Where to Watch: Hulu

Rating: 10/10 and couple up every few weeks, all with the risk of getting kicked out of the villa based on the viewers’ votes. But the reason I find so much joy watching, specifically, the UK version of Love Island, is the immersive experience of the British vernacular. Within all the arguments and banter, British slang is a constant, and there are specific phrases that every contestant uses. This includes the consistent use of “100% percent,” to show they agree with each other even when they obviously don’t fully agree with each other. And they say it like “hundruh-pecen.” Also, in the first ten episodes, they will always