Love Island Season 8 Outdoor-Seating Taxonomy

There’s only one thing that consumes the cast of the island of love more than the niceties of chemistry, general warmth and good banter: outdoor seating. Every episode of the reality show in which a rotation of 20-somethings pair up and become the audience’s most beloved couple (in order to later become influencers) has 75% of people going their separate ways for a “talk.” “Once the chat has been requested, comes the question of which separate seating area in the villa – a claustrophobic, Forever 21 – meets – the Panopticon complex at Bentham in Spain – is best suited to the subject at hand. Will this be the home? Beanbags by the pool? The kitchen, where maybe someone is making banoffee pie? Maybe they’ll sneak out onto the terrace, where everyone can still definitely see them.

Because the cast members are stuck in one place for eight weeks — without an outside phone, TV, or even pen and paper — each seating area feels like a separate place. They also develop, over time, different relational contents; some get romantic while others are just for laughs with your mates. There are places to fight and places to sleep when you’ve been kicked out of the common room where five to six couples sleep side by side. The furniture bears silent witness to this. The following is an emotional taxonomy of the island of love the outdoor seating areas of season eight. Let’s crack. (There will of course be spoilers.)

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The island of love’The circular foyer is perhaps the show’s most emotionally dissonant seating arrangement: it’s where group challenges and game show-style “recouplings” — when actors choose who they want to hang out with. associate – take place. In his spare time, it’s also where cast members go to jettison or argue over perceived slights. The range of passions here may have some sort of primary connection to fire, or it may just be limited outdoor heating. (Sometimes the nights are cold and the girls wear very skimpy outfits.) In one episode, Ekin-Su, an actress in Turkey who describes herself as “spirited”, and Davide, a ragged Italian, are at the pit when he discovers she has secretly gone on the terrace with Jay, an even more muscular Scotsman. The fallout is explosive. This is also where Jay tells Ekin-Su he wants to break up and she seems to be taking it just fine – until, ten minutes later, she tells Jay that she is, in fact, not takes it really well. Even Luca and Dami, two good friends from the most recent season, get into an inexplicable fight there and then kiss because they’re “boys at the end of the day.”

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The art critic Pierre Restany wrote once of the innate radicality of the pouf: “We didn’t come back from assemblies or protest rallies to sit rigidly on a Louis XIV armchair. It is therefore logical that the the island of love the poufs have become a space for sharing knowledge between the islanders. In season four, for example, an actor learned about Brexit on a beanbag (“So that means we won’t get cheese?”), and in the current season, beanbags are where Tasha, an incredibly boring dancer, learns, mistakenly , how rosé is made. (“So if I mixed red and white, it would be a rosé?”)

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The daybed is an essential element of the tray over several seasons. It is both comfortable and erotic. But the current season’s daybed is now circular and so large that it forces the actors, who are almost always wearing their shoes, to awkwardly crawl over it on their hands and knees like babies. This forces the islanders to return to a state of vulnerability, allowing them to open up in a more honest way. And indeed, the daybed is where the actors seem to feel the most free to act like real kids. Petulant rugby player Jacques throws a tantrum at Dami and Indiyah, one of the series’ somewhat more stable couples, over Paige, a true Wales darling, for not following him into the pool after he asked her to follow him into the pool. It’s also where Dami pretends to “read” Gemma’s mind (a cinch), which leads to the most unnecessary drama the show has ever seen.

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the island of loveThe terrace is the second most famous elevated space for couples in the drama story (after Juliet’s balcony), and it’s the closest the cast members have to having a “romantic” spot in the villa. LB Supplies, roof window company, Remarks that “terraces and balconies offer a world of opportunity”, and this is certainly true of the the island of love terrace, a space that has traditionally allowed actors to move. Decorated with floral vines, it’s meant to be somewhat secluded, a premise that’s tested when Ekin-Su goes up there (twice) to secretly kiss Jay.

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The section is one of the only areas in the villa large enough to accommodate all the guys at once, so they use it for their morning debriefs on the night before. (Most of the time they’re talking about fights and degrees of closeness to having sex in a shared room with 11 other people.) Without an inch of shade, it clearly heats the boys’ brains to boiling point, leading to comments such as “I should have thought of her” and “If you asked me, Would I fuck her?, I would say yes. (It’s also where Amber, who was kicked off the show by the public for being unmemorable, revealed her least favorite smell is processed bread and Andrew admits his infidelity to Tasha: “I licked breasts or wohteva.”)

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It’s a much more modest sofa than the boys’ debriefing area, but it also houses a small hearth. The small flame represents a calmer energy and the intimate seating allows the islanders to see each other’s points of view, which is why this is the space where Davide and Ekin-Su end up having most of their talks. of reconciliation. (“Of course if I acted like that, it was because I cared about you.”)

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the island of loveThe outdoor open kitchen is a space for banter and gossip. Nothing romantic happens there, as it’s mostly where the actors gather to watch each other cook yucky meals like protein pancakes. No one really chats in the kitchen, but lots of people are drawn in to chat of the kitchen.

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The pool is an emotionally more neutral place in the villa. Cast members often go there to float, sunbathe, and be alone. This is also where Luca and Jacques chat with a girl when they have erections and need to hide.

This space, where no islanders actually sit, is only mentioned once on the show, when Ekin-Su lies about where she was with Jay. It’s a reflection of the part of her heart that she shuts down to deceive her classmates: “At the end of the day, I’m relaxed. I did nothing wrong, again.