Forget Love, Forget Sex, This Year's Love Island Is About Male Friendships

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It's the male bonding that is making Love Island such a joy to watch, argues Sam Diss.

Love Island isn’t about love. It’s not even about sex, anymore. It’s barely even about The Chat, that ineffable banter energy, once seen as the key ingredient to any romance. No, in the summer of 2019, as far as the men are concerned, anyway, we are on Friendship Island.

' jealousy saw him sequestered in the role of the villa’s gaslighting, square-headed Big Evil, the show’s masculine contingent are mostly marked by their refreshing closeness.walked so that Curtis, Jordan, Michael, Tommy, Anton, Ovie could run. Without wishing to quote Stoke-on-Trent’s coolest young vicar , when Curtis said the men of the house had made 'family for life' you almost – almost – believe him.

Jordan’s easy confidence makes him the ultimate confidant and he has remained a constant calming presence that became surprisingly central to villa communication considering his late start, and serves as a meeting point for all others, always providing the opportunity to vent, usually while horizontal on one of the beds;during his time with Amy to more of an asides guy since his Maura shack-up, providing curious idioms and quips from stage-left during conversation, like a Shakespearian imp,...

Ovie is the villa’s North star; he is the man against whom all others are judged, with his soothing temperament and goofy humour, his emotional maturity and refusal to be caught slipping acts as the perfect foil for any man who is losing their head; That balance of characters is important, but perhaps feels different to the dynamic within female friendship groups .

 

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This years Love Island is all about gaslighting and other abusive behaviours being seemingly normalised

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