## [[2025-06-23]] **Love Island** is not something I’ve ever watched, but a friend recently texted me “you *have* to watch season 6.” And as a fellow lover of [[Reality]] filth, I knew I should take their word for it. Readers, I can’t begin to tell you how right I was to make this call. **LIS6** is the epitome of reality television. It is the **Citizen Kane** of reality television. There are about 30 one-hour episodes of this season, and I binged every single one in a week. It is everything I love about trashy TV. But what is good trashy reality TV? You’d think it’d just be the drama right? More drama = better show, right? Well reasoned, but misguided! The best reality TV has plenty of drama. But it also has comedy, twists, producers that know how to catch the cast off guard, and people to root for. Too much of one or too little of any, and it can only be described as “good” reality TV at best. **LIS6** is the perfect concoction of all of the above. The cast is casting. The drama is drama-ing. The twists are twist-ing. Every episode is so perfectly tuned to make your jaw drop that you'll be pressing “Next Episode” faster than you can blink. I am being vague about the show’s mechancis and cast because I am not kidding when I say that anything I reveal would ruin the impact of the show. And yes I realize I sound like an insane person and making it seem like this show has **Breaking Bad**-levels of pacing. But it doesn’t matter, because *I’m right* and *it’s true*. Pretty much the only negative mark this show gets is the fact that the reunion sucked. But that was fine because I got the rest of the context from the **Love is Blind** subreddit. So yeah, immense television, I *will* be rewatching, and probably sooner than later.