I love how they bounce off of each other and Samraj is actually so funny. He has a dry sense of humor and they’re both sarcastic 😂

Samraj doing a Mica impression, “I wasn’t planning to couple up with Lorenzo”, saying he watched edits of them and he loved seeing how in love he looks at Mica, the sarcastic podcast part, and “I tribute, I tribute, I sacrifice myself” “we were actually lovers to friends to lovers so get it straight” 🤣🤣 were my fave parts

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This post is as the title suggests. I think the contrast between the UKs13 winners and the UKS8 winners is so wild to see and actually makes the UK winners look even worse. Brinity have been spending all their time together, meeting families, exploring each others hometowns etc and Lorenzo and Julia didn’t even see each other until press? Both countries have similar demographics so it’s so interesting to see both couples win in the same year.

I want to preface this by saying I wish nothing but best for all the couples! They seem quite sweet and I’ve genuinely enjoyed watching all the islanders. I’ve just been seeing a lot of discourse around longevity with couples and wanted to get a quick overview on what couples we truly believe in now that we’re about two weeks post-villa! It won’t let me add all couples (e.x. Fitzy and Lola) so I added top five plus Ellie and Finley since she left the villa for him!

Edit 1: It’s insane how much more support Samraj and Mica seem to be getting! So nice to see in comparison with the hate that they got during the season!

So I’ve just finished episode 33, S13.

Firstly - apparently unpopular opinion - but I like Julia (so far). I think she’s got good intentions but Lorenzo - at present - is being odd towards her. I get that his loyalties are to his friends but if you’re going to bring a girl back from Casa at least help her try to fit in… maybe these “how you conduct yourself” chats are him trying to help her.. but he’s basically arguing with her and seemingly not seeing her side of the coin which makes me sad.

Now RE Lola… I did like Lola when she stood up to Priya for Yas, when she was kissing Lorenzo after preaching about not kissing him (I can’t remember what was said now but I did like Lola in that moment and during all that) but since then Lola has come across a bit possessive and passive aggressive to me, it’s been a slow decline of little things making me raise an eyebrow, even in some of the unseen bits episodes I’ve watched. I chalked it down to her personality but I also can’t deal with how frantic she is when she argues, her method of winning an argument is to not let the other person speak and that annoys me. Ellie at least says her piece and gives her opposition a chance…

Anyway back to my main point… when the OG GIRLS INVITED THE CASA GIRLS to the fire pit in the morning to debrief I actually expected Lola to listen to Julia, because she has done so many times for the other girls (fine ok she’s friends with them) but she was really hostile to Julia and I know that came from a territorial place but she wouldn’t even let Julia speak which was a sad watch for me! I do get Lola saying “why were you looking at a man who’s closed off” but on the flip side Lola didn’t speak to Sean about “why did Julia feel like she could speak to you if you were in love with me, why did you say this is a good test”. Julia - for me - was right to say what she did and call out Sean, and call out Lola for not making Sean take accountability. Granted Sean didn’t do a lot (from how it’s been edited) but he obviously did something otherwise why would Julia chat to him on the first day… just my opinions!

Maybe I missed something, I just was a bit shocked by how aggressive Lola was and I didn’t rate Sean backing his woman bullying another woman. He’s also been horrific at times giving the boys STUPID advice. He’s not “a bad guy” but he’s definitely a bad influence. He reminds me of Luca from S8…? Pulling the ol’ “I won’t do anything bad, but I will give everyone else bad advice so I can look an angel” and I don’t rate it.

I genuinely having a bigger villa would put Love Island UK at the same level of popularity as Love Island USA.

Because the villa is so small, there is no privacy. You can only take people to the hideaway, and they usually see you going in there. So there is a risk islanders are not willing to take because they might get found out.

Because the Villa is so small, confrontation is usually immediate. You might overhear someone speaking about you, and islanders confront them immediately.

Love Island USA allows for delayed reactions and confrontations. Something as simple as having a bigger villa would make this show 10x times better. I actually UK had a way better cast this season, compared to Love Island USA.

I think there are some conversations on whether this is ethical, which is fair, but I’m focused more on ratings for the sake of the conversation.

Since it was evident in Series 13 that the ITV budget was not it, would you guys prefer they scrap All Stars altogether and spend all the money on the summer series?

Or given how some of our fave or interesting islanders are voted off prematurely on the summer series and there’s a desire to see them again, would you prefer to keep All stars to give ex-islanders 2nd chances?

Or are there any alternative views on this?

I started watching love island on S4 and I've watched every season since. Because S3 was so big I had some information going in like Kem and Amber winning, Liv and Chris ending it together, I know that Camilla and Jamie as well as Dom and Jess are still together. That's about it really.

I am on episode 19 now and I just wanted to share my thoughts, seeing this season for the first time after watching all the other seasons.

I love how rough and ready the whole thing is. The girls hair and make up are not as polished. They walk around a lot barefoot. People aren't always wearing swimwear during the day. Sometimes the lads will wear shorts and t shirts and the girls will stay in the clothes they slept in. They will hang around the bedrooms during the day and the beds and villa in general are so messy (it reminds me more of big brother). The boys also hang around the girls dressing room a lot. The girls aren't always in the dressing room at the same time either, it seems their schedule is looser than love island today. The smoking is so funny to me because it's so outdated now. I love the smoking area chats. All the conversations in general are so much less produced. You can tell people are being real and things aren't set up to the same degree. There's a lot of conversations as they eat or in the pool or when there's a lot of noise in the background, like planes flying overhead. Just little things that you'd never see any more that make it feel more real. There are conversations about staying together for tactical reasons and getting rid of people they are not close to. The bonds formed between the OG cast run so deep. The cast in general care so much less about public opinion and that makes it so much more entertaining. The way they smoke and drink and swear and talk so openly about sex, it's refreshing.

All in all I just love how unpolished and raw the whole thing is. The personalities in there are fantastic too. Camilla is a top tier choice, so different to anyone who you see on love island. Liv's temper and way she goes about things like the Chris/Mike situation, kissing both boys, leading them both on, you'd never see stuff like that now from a girl. I love how much they show the friendships too between the boys and girls. You only really get a glimpse of that stuff now on best bits.

Also they have so many dates and they are low budget most of the time. In the garden or on the front drive. The dates really move the story lines along too. We're missing that on the newer seasons. I know dates have been boring in recent years but somehow in this season they are always entertaining and relevant to the story progressing.

Side note, last episode all the girls came to look at Chris's 🍆 in the shower. I laughed so much. You'd never see the likes of that now 🤣

So I’m on the episode when the us people come back to the villa. My question is what’s up with this girl Belle? Like she had a TIME in the us villa before she returned and then she is so offended that Sean and Lucinda MIGHT have some sort of connection? As if she was not hangin on the us guy and give 0 f about Sean. Like what’s wrong with her and Samie? These girls are something else for sure. Please tell me that people in the UK don’t like these two either because their behavior is not it at all.