27 Times "Love Island" Series 5 Earned An A+ In Entertainment Value
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I am not joking or exaggerating when I say Love Island UK is one of the best television shows of all time.
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That's not to say the show doesn't have serious issues, including racism and severe trolling. Two cast members, Sophie Gradon and Mike Thalassitis, and former host Caroline Flack have killed themselves.
While I am still able to enjoy Love Island's positive qualities despite its negative ones, which the show needs to properly deal with, I understand if you are not.
Even though Love Island Series 3 is my personal favorite year of the show, Series 5 is hands-down the most perfect. Nearly every bit of it is masterfully done. If this season had been scripted, it would have won countless writing awards.
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Yes, the season has some not-ideal moments, like Sherif getting kicked out, Joe trying to be too controlling of Lucie, who herself was casually racist, and Maura physically attempting to kiss Tommy after he expressed he didn't want to, but the joys this season brings are undeniable.
Also, Love Island is heavily edited. This list deals with the characters the contestants were edited to be, not who they really are.
Here are just some of the reasons Love Island Series 5 is arguably the best season of television ever made.
1.First off, of course, when Tom thinks it'll be interesting to see if Maura is all mouth or not, and her feminism slaughters his misogyny. Oh my god, this is good TV.
2.Ovie. Just all of Ovie.
3.When Jordan tries to get with India two days – TWO DAYS – after asking Anna to be his girlfriend. Mr. Fucking Boyfriend.
Here's more of the whole thing, including Ovie taking India away from everything like the god he is.
4.And Greg's response to learning Jordan's plan around Anna and India.
5.The Salmon, AKA the greatest way to jump in the pool. Shoutout to Chris for this magic.
Shoutout to Chris for so many things.
6.The sandwich Tommy makes for his date with Maura.
Tommy Fury is my hero 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
7.Curtis in the heart rate challenge, which correctly reminded the internet of the lemur from Madagascar.
He is a "professional...ballroom dancer," after all.
8.What Joanna says to Michael when she gets eliminated.
9.And Michael announcing he actually does still like Amber after Joanna leaves.
10.And Michael trying to pretend that he was talking about Amber when he said he found what he was looking for on Love Island the night Joanna left.
11.But Amber picking Greg.
12.And winning.
13.Fanny Flutters.
Here are a few other standout Maura things: at one point she said to Anton, "If we were on the outside, we'd have fucked long ago," she flirted by sucking off a popsicle, she downed a carrot in essentially one bite, and when Molly-Mae fell, Maura said, "I can't believe you wasted that wine."
14.When Anton thinks that Anna is going to choose him in the recoupling, but, alas.
15.Oh, and when Anton gives his number to the shop assistant.
Also, Anton and his whole butt shaving thing.
16.And when he cries at Craig David.
Don’t think anything will beat Anton crying when he saw Craig David & being totally starstruck 😂🤍 #loveisland
17.The Eagle, a sex position that no one in the world has heard of other than Curtis.
18.Yewande being absolutely done with Danny and his nonsense around Arabella.
19.And the travel agent striking for the first time.
20.Curtis thinking he's in a movie 24/7.
21.Including in the kissing challenge when he thinks Arabella is Amy and he says, "Great connection, it's a 10."
22.When Amy gets angry at Curtis, her half-boyfriend, for what he did at Casa Amor, and she delivers the most devastating quote of all time.
23.When Curtis says he doesn't cuddle with Amy in the morning because, "I also want to be the person that gets up and makes everyone a coffee so everyone's ready for the morning."
24.And Amy voluntarily leaves the show to save herself and make it easier for Curtis to be happy.
25.Whenever Ovie says, "Message!"
