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Awards of this dump Weekly awwards , it's not a dumb episode D' don' cont. D't has to all be at once You're right. Lland is a breadcumbing situation constantout the constant of a dripping It's aty thirty five day storm. How many days is it forty days? It's a forty day storm. It just never stops raining I love it Me too. I'm gonna to start UK this week I'm so happy to be in season of something that is meaningful Perfect matches, not these love as blinds Not these Perfect match. No one was watching except us. I'm pretty sure How get the families of those players were watching Bro Oh my got But I consider at this point for me, Love Island is like on par with bachelor, if not a little above it certainly in terms of quality and entertainment value, yes but even in terms of cultural impact eter etcer So it just feels lo impact. I think it's gone above bachelor. Yeah Forrest surpasses it But it just feels good to have something substantial to be able to watch, analyze, et cetera. Again, we've been were Jesus. How long are we without Bachelor? like real Bachelor product? I know we had golden season two and I know we had That's managed to take overver earlier this year, but All I know is that we're a record setting every day Yeah I think Our last bachelor product was Grant Ellis last January That was more recent than Bach in Paradise Oh right, Bash of Paradise season ten, I forget about that don't remind me. That was last summer So we're approaching this a year without any formal game bachelor products, no bachelorette, no bachelor, no bachelor in Paradise Can I tell you there was like some sort of like three image slideh advertising YouTube TV or something on my TV. One of them was like a rose ceremony from Sheall Crank season Can you believe that Whoa. Someone needs to update their ads. Blast from the He asked What we have for you tonight is something very current. It's this show that we're talking about Love Island We're gonna go into Why hell? I'm dressed up as Kenzie for this recap. Oh nice. Can you tell? Cowboy hat if you're just listening. We are not going to go through play by play like we do with a Bachelor recap. We are going to just go through chronologically the biggest moments that kind of happened through these five episodes talk about what they mean, the good plays, the bad plays, what are plays of the game, MVPs ers the game, creatures of the week, base plays of the game, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera And we are also going to start this episode by discussing some of their Instagram gains over the course of this week, who's on top there and talking about first, the ratings of Love Island Hey, guys, you have dumped some information here An hour I did a little dump Now that's in the dark. So as of this deadline article, launched since launching on june second, the first three episodes of Love Island USI season eight Pready tallied, eight hundred twenty four million minutes viewed up seventy four percent from season seven. Well That's wild NBC Universal owned streamer Peacock says the first three days of season eight have set a new record for any peacock original series over that length of time That's including scripted Jesus This is a weird. Well, wait a minute though. over that length of time The first three days But that's also a new episode every day of those three days If you're going like on a scripted series, how you gotta rain on my parade? I'm just trying to get to the bottom of take a dump on my dump. I'm not taking a dump. This is obviously historic, great fantastic. I'm just trying to be like, wait a minute, really more than anything. But they have a little bit of a statistical benefit in that they are putting out content every day of those three days L Taders, for example, doesn't do that Perhaps we're gonna have to get some more stats, I guess. Yeah There's poking holes in it and This one is weird to me. twenty three percent of the viewership comes from phones and tablets. Can you imagine Watching on such a small screen Yeahess I guess I'm kind of watching it's out there. Got some big ass fans out there Im ming it on my computer. I guess that's kind of small too. That's a tablet. Um Largest mobile usage any peacock original series has seen during its launch window V views on NBC Universal So social channels surpassed forty three million do on june second alone. That was day one of the show U And then for context, per Nielsen, viewers spent seven hundred seventy two million minutes watching season seven in its premiere U's preremier week, sorry in twenty twenty five And season A is well on track to blow past that shaping up to be one of the biggest summers peeacock has ever had. So And An another bonafide hit right out of the goddamn gate And what does that mean for our beloved players in terms of their social media numbers? Well, it means this. talk right now Kada is in the lead Total two hundred and fifty two K across both Instagram and TikTok Kenzie is in second place with one hundred ninety two point five Corbin is actually in third place with one hundred eighty one point eight. Bryce is in fourth place with one forty n nine Kata and Corbin must have come in with a lot. R Yes, as did Bryce And he's in fourth place. He came in with over one hundred K, I believe. I think Kata did two. And Seaan is actually in fifth place at least as of the recording of this because he saw a pretty significant bump from his swan song exit U over the course of the weekend These are the gains themselves. Kenzie put on one hundred eight thousand Seaan put on ninety four thousand. Kada, eighty seven thousand Corbin, seventy three thousand And a nayah put on forty K And u As I said Kada is in that number two or number one spot total. Menzie had the biggest daily gain this week Corbin is kind of right behind her, which I find pretty interesting. People like Corbyn enough to Given that follow. He just doesn't do it for me. hisis game is a little slow. No. I would say he's lauding is not that good a player so far. or at least is at it And I mean, the people who have B followings tend to go up a lot Their rate tends to be faster. I think this is Holding true except for I want to say Bryce is not gaining like the other. Bryce Bry Another OG Yeah' kind of scrap at the bottom of the barrel. But I don't and I don't know exactly why that is other than poor play get into Yeah. I mean, he's not He's not featured very heavily, but yeah, we'll get into it. We'll get into it. So this is just a list of kind of the big things that happened. We want to start off by talking about the fun moments. These are not necessarily integral to any story, any play style, but we are always looking for that mama Sita moment like we saw last season with Nick, what's that guy name Vander Steinberg or something like that And who knows, right? when she saidays,' I'm a mom. and he goes, Mom, of what A dog. And she's like, no. And he goes, Mamaita That is the moment we are That's on Yes That's the one you got to recreate. It hasn't exactly happened yet, but we do have some that are kind of like in the in that area of fun weirdness, silliness. So hm We have when B was talking about kind of sexual acts she likes and Seaan takes that and runs with it and he says, I like to hold somebody's hands behind their back, pull their hair and spit in their mouth And she called that move The Holy Trinity. I thought that was pretty funny. Love I've been thinking about the Holy Trinity all season. We also saw a lot of Christian play on their Instagrams going in. so I'm like feel like it gives it an added weight. And we'd seen none of that, by the way in this goddamn show they all had like Bible quotes and Bible passages and shit in their bios. We ain't seeing none of that here. I know. Do you think they're just skipping over their morning turch service Ill tell you what I'll tell you what Grown up in the source You had a lot of friends that were somehow plugged into a church. kids that were No. wildest, let's say, in all respects Always, always preacachher's kids, the pastor's kids people who were close to it who grew up with it. and then they buck loose as soon as they were like inch out of you know the line of sight of their parents or church people. So maybe that's whats going on. Why do you think that in it because they get repressed their whole goamn life. All these rules, you got to do this, you got to be good And then it's like no I'm getting drunk and taking a shit in a mailbox Wha, impressive Yeah, I agree Jesus. We also had Kita treating New Hampshire like it was somewhere very obscure in the world. A lot of people didn't know where New Hampshire was. Yeah, she wasn't treating it like that. It was the other players. Nobody fucking knew where it was. Well, she also kept saying like, do you know where New Hampshire is? Right. 'cause I think the first time she asked that question, the person, I don't remember who she has it to first or even in actuality who she asked to first says. We saw it in the edit. The first person she asked said no. thenen it was like two or three more people in a row were like, no, where's that? And finally Wh I forget who knew where it was. It was there was one player who was like, Yeahah. Oh it was u sincere becausecause he's from New Jerse. Hm, that's good this is one of my personal favorites. I do feel like the show is kind of trying to force a Bryce Zach dynamic duo friendship story on us but they did give us one of my favorite scenes so far, which is a discussion of which one of them are an eater or not And Zach says, you're an eater and Bryce is like, Yeah, I'm an eater. it was Trinity on his lap. Yeah. I think Trinity was sitting on his lap and it was those three talking about basically eating each other's assholes I loved this. I've never heard the termuter and now I'll never unhear it. I think it all the time. Now it'll be the first question you ask anybody when you meet them. Are you an eater Do you know where New Hampshire is or youita? I need to know two things. What do you consider to be the Holy Trinity? Where's New Hampshire and are you an eater? things, I guess. Pretty nice, pretty nice. Liong math there. U we also got The admission from Corbyin that he never went to a concert on that p that was interesting Um Wait, was daylight savings time from before Was that from the first episode? Oh shit, I don't remember, was it I know you sorry ye. I sk I real was like, o maybe I just went to the next line. U I don't remember if that was in the first up. That might have been in this dump. Go ahead It was Trinity revealing that she had given a blow job in the back of her mom's car while her mom was driving her and her explanation It was daylight savings time You do crazy shit. It's like when there's a full moon or daylight savings time you're performing oral suct Richer greatade, et cetera Eone's instination Um I don't know if this is in this stop either, but it is This is an episode two. and the Dalight savings time also was in the stump because that was at the pool Challenge Hm. Well, this whereere we talk about the same thing, the threesome Yeah, that's in this down. Okay. so We get that the Paradise Cove Th sus in the giant beds which I guess they must have reused for this past episode Um Zach and Kata are making out in bed and Bryce tries to get in there and he says, you can't leave your boy hanging and get swerved by Kada and it was powerful. It was almost my error of the game. It was my err of the game up to that point for sure. Yeah. It was so bizarre. So forced and then Kata was just like, u no, dude, get the fuck away from me Absolutely hilarious. A great. Yeah, probablybably one that we'll remember for the rest of the season, but certainly a massive error. And then of course, we had and some of these things we're going to be talking about again, I think, very quickly, but We also had Melanie doing her crashout and just saying Gimme ten, Gim me ten, Gim mee ten, Gimme ten, Gime ten. That's such a memeable moment I think we're going to be seeing that on the internet for the next year I agree. I'm going to see it on my deathbed I probably see the eatater's conversation on my death bed. My summer calendar has suddenly become There are dinners, weddings. 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The first one is in episode two the Paradise Cove Threesomees. So we had Kata comes in as a bomb show Gabriel comes in as a bomb showll. And they each basically get to take any of the singles at the doors when they're playing stick or twist who decide to twist. they get to take them away into Paradise Cove for a twenty four hour runnd debut. It winds up being Kata with Zach and Bryce and it winds up being Gabriel with Ba and Trinity where they're all laying in these beds. Now, if I remember correctly, Gabriel comes into his Paradise Cove room and immediately takes off his shirt. just says, is it hot in here and immediately takes off his shirt. A super chemistry player here. He's not leaving anything to the imagination. There is no subtlety in his game. It is simply Here I am shirtless, yes or no bold And they both say Yes. He makes out both of them I mean, everybody's making out with everybody in this these days. Not Bice, not the eater. No didn't outt with Haton he might have inially Yeah. I think he did. Yeah But this actually does work for Gabriel because eventually we see what's going to happen with Bea He gets her, he peels her from Sewn I thought they had a fantastic relationship. It seemed like that partnership was going well Even Sewn when he when she twists and he opens the empty door He was like surprised by it, seemingly genuinely. Now I will say this. we're obviously going to get to some things about Sean as we continue this list Sean To me was the most surprising of the players. I was ready to not want to watch him to not like him because of his profession f course, that is laaw enforcement officer K cop. Um, but the man was a good player I think he was hindered by his profession, honestly That's part of the reason people didn't want to really match with them It look bad Yeah. I mean, when we first said that he's a cop, people were like, watch for each other around him me's a friend I might also said that what she didn't like was the package deal. Yeah. So we had kind of like I don't a package deal isn't necessarily a strike against you, but it certainly limits the possibility of like Anybody who doesn't want a kid. is not going to hang around with that in my opinion U the cop thing though is a different type of deal. That's just like, who likes cops No one. Not me That might have hindered him too. Nonetheless It was propaganda though, because he had a thousand watt smile That's what I'm sayingone was very good at it. O than one thing, which I'm going to have to give my air of the game later, but will get to. So this Paradise Cove thing was kind of interesting. I was into the fact that they allowed the bomb shows immediately to have twenty four hours overnight with these other players And immediately I start to think about the math of it, we know that The sauna was eliminated from the show prior to it shooting because She had some racial slurs that came up online, so they yanked her as a result of that They knocked Gabriel down to Bombshell instead of OG. So the original cast was supposed to have Six groupings, twelve players, not ten Which means there could have been two more people in this mix for this fucking paradise Sope thing. What would they have done had there been like It's one bomb showing three people in the fucking bed. four people five it. What if everybody twisted? I just I okay They had that big bed prepared. I'm guessing that big bed was split in two for that O maybe they do. I don't know. I mean, they obviously know who's going to stick or twist. I bet they make them lock in their answers beforehand Um But yeah, I don't I guess they would have figured there would have been a lot one more locked in couple or I don't know. Gabriell and Beaya, who knows what would have happened if Asana hadn't done what she did ples throughout history Nonetheless, this paradise Cove Thason basically results in a kind of new coupling for Bea. She is now with Gabriel And Kata Eventually he's going to select Zach and it kind of results in that which leades Mackenzie fucked I like a Paradise Cove type thing because I do feel like it It helps them with the problem that the bombshells aren't able to crack in Andet the OGs lock in and it's really hard to peel them off I agree. I think also it is helped by the fact that it was so early in the game You know, they had only been the OGs there for twenty four hours when this happened. So it's like it's like It's easier psychologically, I think, for an OG to peel off of their person if literally the next day they meet somebody Once you start getting to like where we are now, about a week, you've been there. It's going to be virtually impossible to peel Yeah Um, Moving on Our next kind of big moment was the pool game where all the players are lined up on the edge of a pool and one player is called up to read Some kind of comment about what were some of them? I can't even remember. They were they were like, what is your favorite sexual position, I think was one? No, that was the doors. That was the doors. Seemingly kind of innocuous things or like titillating things. The big cheated on whoever. Yeah, onene of them was forgot your name while you were having sex with somebody One of them was had sex in the same room with their ex or something like that. But the big ones that we learned were Trinity gave a blow job in the back of her mom's car and Gabriel had sex with a fifty two year old. and gets a lot of ooz and os from people. And Sincere was like texting while he was in a relationship or something Yeah, sincere was giving fuck boy behaviors But this little these games that they have, it's not exactly a challenge. It's just like some kind of fun weird thing to throw out this information about this players so that they can essentially judge one another. and we also as a fourth audience can judge people for whatever they've done in their sexual lives. Yeah. This is I mean It was the entire preomise of love overboard It was also a challenge and perfect match. It is like This is the year of the Pank walking challenge Nothing was as impressive as Natalie who had had a five s I would like to that in perfect match I don't remember that? she had a five some, she said. M Tamp living their lives After the pool game, we moveved on to the first chge I think this was the first challenge, right? The boss bititch business challenge It's the first one where they had to put on costumes, so I'm considering it the first challenge. And it's the first one that contained goo. Mm, that's more Challenges in Love Island contain goo Uually There's no way that's true. It's one hundred percent true. Okay. They'll all die on. Usually the goo is given colors. Usually neon, in this case, it's neon pink The Boss Mch challenge requires each of the women to donwn bikinis in the style of power business suits And writhe around on a giant horseshoe shaped office desk throwing papers and staplers and whatever into the wind as they basically are twirking and doing kind of like a strip tease across this u table Then They have to select somebody based on a question, who is most likely to do this? Who is the person who's whatever to go sit in this little chair, they pull a lever and that person gets ejected basically like thrown into the neon pink goo, they come up coovered in the goo thenen they have to select somebody with whom they are just going to straddle and make out with they crush their office crush, right? Then they have to go into a supply closet where we learn a new bombshell, Corbin is waiting for them and they make out with Corbin in there as well. That's the basic structure of this now We do learn some things from this. We learned that Oh, you have some of the shit in here. Who is not afraid to step on any toes to climb their way to the top? Melanie's ly Kita for who should be fired. So Kata gets like a little bit of revenge on Melanie because she called her out And this seems to be a kind of like a proxy war going on over sincere played out through their theirre gooing, theirre sliming of one another Aa says, I am a tit for tat girl. Do not come for me because I will come for you U and what we learned ultimately in this challenge is that all these women love Corbit Yeah comomes in with height play. He is six foot four. this is taller than any other guy and that is made known immediately. He's so tall. He's so handsome. Now, what is interesting about the way they are introducing bombshells? U, and I like this invariably, the bombshells when they come in given no ability to speak or make any play other than chemistry. It's just stream making out. Torbin has the same. so you can witness their chemistry play, The chemistry play st and Obviously, everybody on Love Island, these are thorough bats. These are the top of the top chemistry players probably in the fucking world All impeccable chemistry playay You don't know what the rest of their game is though. And so you can have wild fantasies about Oh, he's going to be great. She's going to be great. I bet they're going to be funny, whatever, whatever, whatever. you have no fucking idea In Iine with Corbin We see In my opinion ain't got much else You gotta h game And he got that chemistry game. he's getting them all crazy. We hear Kenzie talking later about how horny he's making her by just touching her butt in her sleep Mmhm. Big hand And you know what I means She's so fucking funny to me. sccreaming without the ass. She's screaming without the y that whole conversation. Corbin, like, I was high on him when I saw him in the closet in the makeakeout closet. I was like, oy, this guy's coming in and he's going to be a threat. and yes, of course, Every season we get some conversation about when the tallest guy comes in This is a trope. The bom one bombbshell will always be the tallest guy And then there's a lot of like insecurities about height. Oh shit he's six foot four. What am I gonna do? Um, Little do they know. I don't think he's got much O game I don't know if he's told he can only say. tell the boys when they're making out. but that's all he says to them All of his kisses look exactly the same. He doesn't try to do anything funny. Dumn Yeah, I have not I think he's not long for this game. I think so too. Especially it's what we see, we'll get to in a minute. But at the end of episode six, we see basically the producers of Taylor made an out for Kenzie to get out of that relationship. But what winds up happening is they do this bs is challenge. the guys are informed. Hey There was a dude standing in that club. We weren't just standing in there for no reason. We were actually making out with straddling, climbing a six foot four man named Corbin. and then he gets brought out after the boss was challenge. And all the guys get introduced to him. Hey, what's up man? Whoa, he's so tall. This leads to A moment where Corbn gets to sit by the fire pit with all the women He now gets to discuss things with him here's who I am What's up with you? A lot of this gically Yeah confed somebody asks him in how tall are you? And this is the most confident he is. this is the most I think like, um just kind of straightforward hardcore play that he makes all game He's I forget who asks him how tall he is. It might be Trinity. And he goes sixix foot four And you realize in that moment This is all that guy ever has to do in the real world. Yes to get An girl he wants. I'm call and I'm good looking. And that's it I mean We talked about this on our watch along, but which by the way, we're watching all the episodes on patreon. com slash game of Roses and Cosic Gore There were people in college where I was like, o, that guy he just needs to sit. couch at a party and they will get late. They don't have to do shit. Yeah It'll just happen. unless is that type of situation And We see one player Melanie leaning forward, blocking out the sun, blocking out the view of the bombshell from Kenzie. the victimized single as well as everyone else on that side of the fire pit. And it's important to note that there was like a pre conversation had by the women before Corbyn is allowed to come join their ranks to have this conversation. They basically all kind of agree Kenzie gets first dibbs because she's single and vulnerable. So She should be able to talk to him eter, etceter Um And then yeah, in this This is like It's high level play in one capacity and it's also kind of an error in another They are really And And they, I mean Bea and Melanie, which will'll get to their little conversation in a minute They are turning nothing into something It It is spinning gold from not even straw. It is spinning gold from thin air from shit. Now they get into a fight here, which is a bit of an error, but they're going to correct it, which we'll get to in a minute. Some rituals start with a candle others with a deep breath. This one starts when the air shifts The sense of calm collection from the Pura Calm partartnership three fragrances designed with sensory science to ground your space and quiet your mind Sleep story, a lavender drift into deep rest Breathe bubble A mindful reset wrapped in white tea and cashmere Soundscape. a fresh clearing rush that restores your energy. Ground your space, quuiet your mind. Explore the sense of calm collollection at pura d. com slash calm But I just found like the the So this all goes down and then an argument happens basically where Bea Mela is a first responder. She pulls Corbyn first Yes well. Exactly. So she has violated the pinky promise that they made in episode one to like have each other's backs and call them out if they're being crazy or whatever. Um The idea though that Bea is like You were leaning in too close. You were blocking enzie's ability to even see is like, wait, wait, what? It's so funny. It doesn't make any sense at all yet Bea is able to manipulate this strange kind of like picking weird idea into a full blown fucking argument That leads to the first crashout of the season when Melanie gets up off that couch, starts crying and just says, Gimme ten, Gimm me ten, Gim mee ten, Gimm me ten. I need ten minutes. I need ten minutes. and it says it over and over again as she's storming around the grounds crying and Ani of course goes to STACO as she does. She's a professional STCO. She's like the greatest STCO over the season, basasically STCOing That is her entire playstyle and I think it's such a good idea because she's getting so much screen time. She's also able to do these one on ones with the guy players that seem really innocuous, but really maybe she's preparing all her notch downs And it's fantastic play by Melanie here too. Some of these players, I'm like I'll see this For me, part of all these games that I watch is seeing like who's a calculated player, who is doing what they're doing strategically and who is just a natural. who is in their fine by the seat of their pants and they just got what they got and it works. Yeah. I think Melanie is a natural. Yes. I don't think she's very calculated. I think Ba is a little bit more of a calculated player. She is thinking before she acts to some degree. She has natural qualities for sure But like when she's like, hey, we need to talk She already knows exactly what she's going to say Yeah, how it's going to go or at least how she perceives it will go withith melano, it's just like Whatever I'm here Let's see what happens. And so in this moment where Ba is like, hey, come back to the couch. let's talk this out Theya recognizes like, fuck, I pushed some weird button. I didn't even know I was pushing. And Melanie's like, Nope, not right now. fuck you I'm not going back to the couch. Another memeable line. Yes, God, I'm not going back to the couch. That is, that's a fucking t shirt. But Melanie through her kind of natural capabilities, I think maybe even unbeknownst to her is extending this story now into another fucking episode. So the tension between them as friends. Are they going to become enemies? Are they going to be able to bury this hatchet? We now get to ride that through to the next episode. They become kind of the A story, the dynamic duoess of them becomes an A story for almost an episode and a half and it's all due to Melanie giving a fucking inch Not only at play. I don't know if I made it but brilliant It was To me the most memorable moment from this entire day It's the most dramatic moment. It created both of these amazing meme lines Give me ten and I'm not going back to the couch. It's like Me as soon as I like rest on my bed, I'm not going back to the couch. I was thinking of like I was trying to think of memes all week after this episode I loved it. That was It was beautiful. And like to not bury the hatchet immediately is great because then you extend it You then get another scene. In a different outfit, get to prepare Yeah They don't bury the hatch until the next fucking day That's how far they drag this out. Just like your mom says, always go to bed angry. Oh my God. Yeah, if you don't watch the necessary conversation, my parents just celebrated their fifty first wedding anniversary and So I asked my mom to give some advice on, you know, what does it take to be married that long, that kind of thing? You know, what have you learned And she's like, people always say don't get to bed angry. I don't agree with that. Go to bed angry and talk about it the next day. I laugh so hard at this. Always go to bed angry Cs A BA But the crash sh out was fantastic. I agree with you. I think it was kind of the It was the biggest dramatic moment so far of the season And I don't know what that says exactly about the season. That the most dramatic moment is not part of a relationship, it's part of a friendship Um I don't know. I have I don't want to say misgivings, but I think this season for me, it's not like ramping up as quickly as the prior two. It's good though. Don't get me wrong. I'm liking a lot about it. I think you're you're missing a little There's just certain moments from last season that We're fired into my brain and we'll be, you know, in that deathbed montage. That' for sure. And I'm not sure that we have seen that exactly, but all of the right pieces are here I agree with that I still feel giddy when we're about to start an episode. one hundred percent. I think there is some extraordinary talent. even The new bombshells looked We could have some contenders. I think Soul is about to tear this game up So I mean, I didn't even plan this, but I have a soul on my t shirt. Nice. Can you believe that? I can. Just as Kenzie Anl. That's a synchronicity. The universe is coming apart at the seams You. Nurdler He everybody. Ndler Yeah is collapsing around us. Enjoy the. Okay. Well after we get that and by the way, this can work for relationship dramas as well as far as like not not fixing the problem until the next day. go to bed that. And then the next day you do our main big main takeaway Mel and Bea bury the hatchet I thought literally that this conversation was going to be my play of the Domp play of the week. We see basasically They bond and smells like you're so cool of me is like I try to not be one of the boys, but I grew up in this way in which you weren't supposed to cry, and my dad said you can't cry unless you're in physical pain What That's a champion maker Jesus Christ. Yeah, I guess that's how you get an Olympian kid Mm. Ain't gonna be ollie Try for anything you want try just me. Let 'em out. Let him out. Physical pain, psychological pain The thought of those things possibly happening just of the wind going a certain way, just cry Um And They basically bury the Hacha in this very for TRR manner Um Getting this BAPTC out. I loved it. Yeah This scene to me, was the most pivotal so far this season for a variety of reasons, a variety of reasons First is what I already discussed. They have built drama into this moment. We are anticipating this conversation happening. and when it finally does, after we've seen almost an episode in between the crashout and this or maybe half an episode, I guess We are ready for it And all of us or at least for me, I can't speak for everyone, but I think we probably all were feeling like Is this going to make it worse? or are they going to bury the hatchet Are they going to be enemies for the rest of the show? or are they going fuck is this going to bring them closer We all want it to bring them closer. The friendships in this show are just as important as the relationships And so we want not mcceed If not more F Rush last at the whole love Island. Barely it was in a couple for more than an episode So because you got to have your boys and you got to have your girls. Yes. They They bury the hatchet using these things where Ba is revealing all of the super personal information. more information than we've seen her bear to anyone else. So we now have a better idea of who she is as a player and what her playstyle is going to be and where that idea that like how she finds love or value in a relationship is going to come from all of the stuff she's revealing about her childhood.es dad being kind of hard on her, not allowing her to be emotional. So that's a wall for her that she's going to have to overcome in any given relationship. then Look at the artistic nature of how this is done. It's not just them sitting on couches at a certain point during the conversation They hold one another's hands and we are given a An extreme close up of their bjeweled bedazzled fingernails, holding one another's hands as they are saying these things It just the artistry of this show. cannot be understated or overstated, I should say in my opinion, it looks beautiful, but it's not just how the set looks and the lighting and everything It's like shot selection. It's the wherewithal of whoever was on that fucking robot camera to like zoom in. to the goddamn handhold Brilliant. fucking brilliant. The Zoom inss, the reaction shots that they're able to cut to there was One really good reaction shot by Casey where he's just like What? And it's like It's just extraordinary. Like always thinking about that too. It's like every episode is put together so well, The music compliments whatever is happening. They're cutting things like music videos and they're doing this every goddamn day It's not like Bachelor where you have two months to work on ten episodes They have about twenty four hours to work on a full ass episode And it's anything bachelor has ever done every time It's Violland does it. I know a better better buildild a better game Oh also on that Bay up PTC Yeah informing how she approaches relationships. She says like You'll know it's my true partner when they get me to crack and going my feminine and that kind of thing. And it's like, oh, you're giving us something to watch. as your love story develops as well. However We then get a conversation between what I would argue is our A couple of the show so far. Anaya and Kasey In episode five, they have this discussion in which They have a conversation about colorism. And Casey says that he loves black women and he calls Anayah the blueprint Bring your heart to tears. It is so For TRR. It is so well done even though there were a lot of strong contenders for me This was the play of the game Yeah. It's it's neck and neck for me with the hatchet burial It was God, this play was just like I don't know, you're kind of changing my mind. Maybe I give it to him because he started off on such a bad foot door challenge where he's like, I like plants, fuck dogs of cats. And you're just like, oh my Godd, what is this guy doing? Then gives him this narrative, which is You get partnered with Anaya. almost against her will. but he now He now gets to have this narrative. It's like, no, no, no, we were always meant to be with each other No matter how we got together. like that's irrelevant. We're together now. and I'm going to show you how much I always wanted it to be you by saying these things and giving you this validation. My whole family is black. like Yeah, you are brilliant Beautiful He is, I think, a contender for kind of like Dark horse MVP the entire season Hary where's this whole thing. U I do I agree. foresee break in his future whatever heart break. you know what I mean? That's interesting. You said this in our watch alone that you think Ana is going to dump him and I feel like he's more likely to twist, but We shall see. Well, he is Dare I say it when he did the plant play whichich is just such a huge error He got shaken a little bit. H confidence got knocked for sure And so you can see him now kind of like mininding his P's and Q's. But once we get to that bed challenge, which we'll get to in a minute He's starting to come out of his show And you might be right He might start to get like a little bit of swagger and be like, fuck this shit. I'm going with a bombshell now. like we'll see what happens during Casa. We will see how he plays, how he moves. He would need to be physically separated from Aaya. I think it would have to be a cause of' going to be or a Paradise Gove type situation He's gonna be I know, but I'm just saying I don't see him twisting right in front of her face. Amer kind of did makeakeouts in bed That's what I'm saying That kind of gets them used to doing that. You know what I mean He was tied up. what was he supposed? I know. In challenge is different than out of challenge. I know, but those challenges are designed to psychologically weaken a player's resolve to make it like a tch barer. Yeah. you just made out with a complete stranger one inch from the person you're in a relationship with in quotes. It's like, then what the fuck does it matter if I do it, it costs a gore Counds it Cuse support, all right Anyway. Yeah, they're a fantastic couple. This play by him was impeccable and I'm really loving what he's been able to turn like utter disaster in episode one into like you're saying And I agree with you. I think they're the A couple right now I mean He doesn't have that much competition, I will say from the male players, but I do think he's the strongest. Yeah, Sean, I would say was your strongest I can't believe you say that was He literally got voted out first. He's I mean, dumped first. he is defefinition of the weakest Okay, well, let's move on to our number two then our number two thing on this list because I have some things to say about that. Okay go for it I'm no fan of propaganda work. I'm no fan of l. I'm no fan of cs. You said, Oh, I love your cpetra. You're the best player. No fan of cops. I'm a fan of good play you see And if you're a cop, but you're a good player I'm a fan. Not of the cop player. What's that phrase? Don't be a fan of the cop Be a fan of the player don't hate the game. It's hate the cop, donon't hate the player Okay. Yeah We figured it out ACab, but the HTC AC HTP. AC A B But player it works we could do that th That' fit on a hat, right Okay first se merch. Our next big moment here was the first recoupling. This happened relatively recently as at least in relation to this recap It might be clouding some of our judgment, perhaps. We're still emotionally heated So yeah, everybody, we got a couple of bombshells in here. We got some challenges. peopleeople been able to make out with everybody multiple times. They've been to have all their chats. And so now Ariana Grande shows up. Ariana Madx shows up Jesus Christ. I can't believe that was an accident again. I literally, when I hear the word Grande comes after it always in my m. Literally. Ver sorry So u She shows up and says G and get your ass at the fire pit. We got to do this recoupling and we get these recouplings. Corbin is given first opportunity as the bombshell to come in and choose any player he wants to couple of with This was I think it's rare that the producers make a mistake, but it was a producerial mistake They took away any dramatic momentum they had Genzy who was really the one faced with a decision here. Is she going to pick Sean Corbyin and it looked at least from the edit like maybe she was going to pick Sean. They're making out. He's giing her plates full of a heart shaped egg like They had at least through the edit, made me believe, Sean was very viable Be they allow Corban to make the first choice, he picks Kenzie, th, that's out the window. fuck that. And know who everyone else is going to pick We sit through twenty minutes of watching all the couples stay together. You've got Anya choosing KC, Melanie choosing Sincrea Ka to choos Zach They chooses Gabriel Try chooses Bryce and then You put in here the mayor of Bethlyn publicity. Bs out Sean for Quin This is just some context in case you didn't listen to ourwibbin last week Wham mayayor said, I never thought I'd see the day in America where reality show participation wins out over being a police officer And then we had Sean's mother publicly clap back, which we gave our play of the of the week O our paris social playay of the week last week. Yeah. I The most surprising thing about all this to me is that that mayor thinks Anybody would rather be a cop over have a chance to go on the island That's insane It's truly insane. I mean, but he's a cop. A lot of like that's his. Thinking I guess, but like we talked about this in Twibin it's like the same as if you get called to go play majoragueaseball or something and you're like, no I got to do this cop thing. It's like, what, bro He should have embraced it and said, yes Our police department has the hottest cops and we will always have the hottest cops, and I guarantee it or be like we're going to be aitl your city for Love Island and eater sitting, maybe too Now and you're asking the right questions. We're we're an eater feeder Police department Feder feeder. Yeah PD. He could have also said something like, Look, I've worked very close with this guy. I consider myself to be like a father to him and I'd be honored to come to the part where he meets the family. Oh my God, he could have gotten on the show. He could have gotten on the show. He fucked up. Anyways, Sean in this recoupling is left out. He is single and vulnerable and then Ariana Maddox tells him That means Bye bye First elimination. I will say this about Sean. He was a fantastic player, I think he immediately identified in Ba somebody that had a lot of commonality with, good chemistry play with and locked that downown beknownst to him She didn't want kids and she probably doesn't like cops. And so it was a non starter. She was just within to tread water until something better came along. That was Gabriel playayed it correctly though. Everything he did with her was correct and good play Everything he did after that In all of the conversations he had with people, the trying to woo Kenzie, everything he did was correct and good play exxcept not What's up There' one error he made. Yes. The one error was during the Boss bititch challenge or after it immediately. We see when Kenzie is up there doing her good work. on the makeshift office desk doing her lap dances said doing the splits on people's heads. How she's doing that She comes to Zach and rebuffs him I'm not dancing for you. Staper to the head. Yeahes, you fucking put a stapler on his head Multiple staples in the head, put one in his jugular, had to go to the hospital, barely survived. And S't like that Yeah L. I don't understand. He's like, lookook, I can't just sit by and watch somebody do an attempted murder. I'm a cop. I was sorry. I took I was bath for him Yeah. You see with this badge right here? You're not wearing a badge. I am inside Oh He tells her he didn't like that she rebuffed Z. He's like, I didn't like how you you handled that, Eessentially saying I don't like how it's kind of childish behavior to be immature enough that you'd be like, fuck you, I'm not going to lapdance you play, I think It's hard to say because of the math of all of this Kenzie was kind of on the fence between Corbin and Sean. I don't think she actually gave a fuck about either of them in a like romantic capacity But she was faced with a choice or at least she thought I will determine the fate of one of these guys. I will allow one of them to move forward in the game And I think Sean was actually in the driver's seat until he told her that Um Turns out, none of it matters because Corbyn makes the choice anyway But sorry, what. Sean criticizing Kenzie's immmaculate Perfect dance play in the BossB Challenge was my Eerror of the game It was also my error of the game You had one job, you quit your other one job and now you have one job MackKenzie on your side, sir And just criticizing anything about that dance alone. She did she expressed her groin She was doing her splits, left and right. Express your gin also, should be one of my favorite things that has been said Yeah He are you Dare you put any negative comment about this dance performance first I agree. And it just doesn't make sense. L you never want to insult the one person who may keep you in the game It was a rare error from him. And again, mathematically I don't even think it mattered because Corbin Yeah, it might not haveatter choice from the table anyway, but but pettiness was baked into the challenge. You had to goo someone. like pettiness is is part and parcel of this game. Totally. And the key kind of like fundamental play style, in my opinion unless you are completely justified or you're trying to do a table turner everver you're partner or the person you're pursuing to be your partner is doing, you're supportive of it, one hundred percent at all times especially in a scenari like this where you're not even officially partnered And it's like she didn't want to lapdance the guy who, you know, did something bad to her in the game and you're like, you shouldn't treat him like that. Wrong, error, terrible And there may have been a way for him to stay in the game had he not made that play. There may have been a way for him to be like Kenzay, I really like you. I don't know if there's something to be done here. Can she break out of that? There might have been like a rule sliding kind of thing that he could have done had she really wanted to keep him, but she even says, I forget she told it to after that recoupling. She's like, I was going to pick Corbyn anyway And I think that was because of what Sean said think I think it is and Like I know it doesn't really seem like it actually mattered in this because of that. It still beats out Bryce thinking that he's having a threesome with and Z Yeah. 'ause that was funny at least You know, you know, didn't was just like didn't end up affecting Bryce's game U And what were the other biggers? U I would say Ba what she said to Melanie is like kind of an error, but but turn that again into turn it into an opportunity. And that's the mark in my opinion of like a truly great player. Everybody's going to make errors. It's very hard to play a perfect season, especially in a scenario like this where you're shooting twenty four hours a day hour It's it's never really going to happen. It's what do you do with that error How do you take the situation and turn it into something fantastic. players can do it pretty much every fucking time. We saw this happen with let's go back to TV show called The Bachelor, seeason twenty three, Colton and Underwood. there were I remember that one. You remember Colt Underwood? I remember the Bachelor. He's a big host now of Are you My first I can't believe you're going to bring up the virginions that you abandoned Didn't abandon them savoring savoring them Every last drop. G more episodes left. That season featured two roookie all stars in Calin Miller Keys and fellow pageant queen The Anna Brown prodroducers cast them They knew each other from the pageant circuit. They cast them on that season. to be rivals and they put them in a fucking rivalry. They got them heated each other Annah Brown sits down with Kaylorb Miller Keys and like, Listen, we're sisters. What are we doing here Let's hug it out. immmediately fuck the producers. This is a little bit of a different scenario because Bea effectively created the situation by herself. The producers were not malevolently trying to sink her and turn her into a rivalry. She did it, but she was able to turn it around immediately into not only a burial of the hatchet but this moment that allows her to express a really hardcore PTC that informs who she is as a player brilliantly done. And that to me, again This is where you're watching like true greatness. That's a fantastic player. who can turn shit into gold B I knew she was going to execute that conversation well Um I will say another error I'm thinking of that just happened was Mels over enthusiasm at having a mail bombbshell at the end there. Well, like she's playing a dangerous game. Let's get into that. That's our number one thing is the bed challenge moment where she has already selected likeike she knows that Sincere is right there, but just goes literally back and forth between Sincere Cor making out with them almost simultaneously. fucking wild and Sincere is just like, oh my go What is going on? It was absolutely insane. But that's what I'm saying about her playstyle is like Obviously chaotic, but it's natural It's like There's no thought behind that. No She's just like, fucking, I'm on this bed in my underwear, Let me make out with these two hot guys. fantastic for TV fantastic. I don't know where it's going to wind her up in the game, but I love watching it. She's playing a very reckless game Like 's Until now, like Sincere hasn't really had any other options to pivot to and she was safe with him, but she's testing it and the excitement at the new bombshell squeal play, more she was doing more lean play She leaned again even after being reprimanded on her leaning. She's trying to get ten more minutes Um So this bed challenge is fucking insane. They tell the guys and the women. go get ready for bed and they walk back into ready for their dressing rooms or whatever. and the guys have a bunch of just kind of like white underwear of various styles, kind of boxer shorty. The women have all this white lingerie. they come out Aerautomatics. is standing there in her own kind of white outfit and she's like, Oh, here's the deal. Guys are going to be chained up to the fucking bed. The women are going to put on blindfolds, crawl on the bed, covered in paint of various colors to mark their territory basically. And so this means Trinity Eur up first. And I'm just kind of like what what is this game? And then Training proceeds to cover herself in paint Ride around on each of the guys in order and make out with each of them. to find her guy and once she does, she handcuffs herself to him process goes on again and again until we get to Kenzie while she is on the bed Uh oh, there's a wrinkle. There's a new bomb show walks in. Uh Sooul, twenty four from California, Jen twenty three from Florida and Caleb. from North Carolina, who is twenty one Um What we witness here with soul is It's a tall order Imagine being sold. ' been watching six episodes, essentially of this show or whatever footage the producers are giving you so that you o bombshells get this. You know the lay of the land a little bit when you come into the game. You know who the couples are, you know who's maybe looking to Leave their couple who needs to notch up. You know what the basic scenario is. You are asked to walk in, your introduction will be in your underwear Walk into this television show in your underwear There's a giant bed sitt. Not even your underwear, the underwear we give you that you have to put on. Yeah, they've beenight Nightmare Before you sits a bed guys chained to it, covered in paint There is a woman actively making out with all of them You must now ye, blindfolded. You must now climb onto the bed and make out with the ones just out of the earshot or physical range of her so that she doesn't know you're there And she does it expertly. Whatain entrance. guysys are fucking losing their minds. Oh shit I can't belie to something happen to go She's got them worked into a fucking frenzy thenen Jen comes in and does the same thing. Wh I forget who's the one on this time, but she know when another player' like Yeah, they steal the scen.'s fucking crazy. Then after all of this The women are all chained up to their guys. They've handcuffed themselves to who they believe their partner is well blindfold. They all got it right They're chained up to their guys. Then a fucking dude comes in. This is Caleb He is then imagined being this motherfucker. Everyone's blindfolds are off They're chained to their guys You now have to crawl on this fucking bed and make out with these women six inches from the faces of the men they're chained to Fucking does it esn't give a fuck. No hesitation. Menzie is losing her fucking mind. leaves us on this cliffhanger of like This guy was basically written into the show for her. She's like, I need cowboy. I want somebody from North Carolina named Caleb who's twenty one Hi, I'm Caleb from North Carolina. I'm twenty one. It's like, o my God. how did they figure it out? So that's kind of where we're left at the end of episode six is Is she going to dump Corbyn for Caleb? The answer is yes. The only question is what will he do Caleb Yeah You think he might not go for Kenzie Hs If I'm him, this is what I'm I'm mashing this My options are basically Kenzie, Soul, or Jen. Sol and Gen in my opinion, are better plays Yeah because They have more to lose if they don't partner up Mackenzie is an OG. There's something about that that just says like, it doesn't seem stable to me If you come in in a similar circumstanance, you to get replaced. Yes You've already seen it with Who was it Sean and Bryce, I think Did they they came in together, right Rce came in. whoo was it that walked in San sincere maybe. When Sean got eliminated, whoever it was, the person that walked in with him, I think it might have been sincere was like, we were brothers. We walked in together. Yeah is a weird bond in this game if you come in in an exact similar circumstance in the same round as a bomb show or whatever So I think he could go to Soul or to Gen and be like, lookook, I like you, like I think we should do this. and I think they'd be more likely to accept it because it's also not as difficult to get with the bomb shell as it is. hundred percent the low hanging fruit. Yeah. And you don't have to step on toes. Exactly love the other guys. If they allow him to, I mean, that is the best play, I think. I agree we shall see. and I agree I don't think Kenzie's going to stick with this guy I don't she gets with him, Caleb. An OG who has not had like a long term an OG who's bounced around a little bit is like that's a dangerous fucking player. I don't know if you want to hit your wagon to that player. but I also don't want to see Kenzie leave the game. so I hope he does stick with her. Oh Kenie better not She bad or that's not We'll see I liked the bed challenge even though it was very confusing