Love Island or Lust Island?
7/10/202625 min
Love Island has some lessons to teach us about modern dating.
This episode was produced by Dustin DeSoto, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Gabriel Dunatov, engineered by David Tatasciore, and hosted by Jonquilyn Hill.
Love Island USA season 8 cast members Caleb McDaniel and Jaiden Bacciocco. Photo by Ben Symons/Peacock via Getty Images.
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First 90 secondsJonquilyn Hill· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Emmy noms came out this week, and among the King of the Seven Kingdoms and America's husband Sterling K. Brown is Ariana Madix, cementing her rise from sexy, unique restaurant employee to the host of summer's hottest reality show, Love Island USA. The premise for those who don't know, 12 very photogenic 20-somethings, six boys and six girls, enter a villa in Fiji where they get into straight people shenanigans. Along the way, even hotter 20-somethings come to try to break them up, and viewers at home get a hand in what happens. The show is more popular than ever. It was streamed for over two billion minutes just in the first two weeks. But this season feels different from past ones, and it's not just because of all the toe sucking. Coming on Today Explained from Vox, what happens when the red pill goes beyond real life and comes for reality TV too?
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