In the relationship-based show, the fifth season begins with strong competitions among these young people in which they compete to match the right person. These young people are looking for a summer of romance and association, as well as the dream of winning £ 50,000, where the contestants aspire to a romantic life and a great prize for fun and bragging among them.
Human life likes to imagine itself to have civilised the process within the last few thousand years, so it is endearing in its way to see it all stripped back again to first principles.
Ah, the empowerment! It's a very uneasy villa as they progress to swaying and talking Selfies. They are fearful and shifting for advancement, like bad nude chess.
Love Island has all the superficial trappings of glamour - fancy villa, cocktails, Range Rover Evoque convertibles - but I've seen more class on Canvey Island. Or a traffic island.