Love Island<\/a><\/p>\nEpisode 14<\/p>\n
\n Season 8<\/p>\n
Episode 14\n <\/p>\n
\n Editor\u2019s Rating<\/p>\n
3 stars<\/p>\n
***\n <\/p>\n
\n The Islanders\u2019 happiness is short-lived after the public vote and elimination leave the villa in disarray.
\n Photo: Peacock\n <\/p>\n
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An episode that ends in a double dumping should probably be more thrilling than this. I\u2019m mostly satisfied with how the Islanders voted, especially because Sol has become, pardon me, a bit of a downer. I\u2019m not even that broken up about Gabe\u2019s departure, since we never saw much of his personality beyond all the tonguing down. The one moment of genuine conversation between him and Jen this episode lasted about 15 seconds before dissolving, again, into tonsil hockey. (The boys, however, are clearly pissed, based on the preview for tomorrow\u2019s episode.)<\/p>\n
The reason I\u2019m feeling so meh now, I think, is that there are very few other ways this dumping could have gone. Of course, the newest bombshells were going to get the fewest votes from the public, and of course, the Islanders aren\u2019t going to vote off an OG if they can help it. The only real surprise was that Jen, whom I often forget is even in this villa, survived. There\u2019s no real sense of loss to the villa here, and honestly, why watch this show if not to watch tears melt the makeup off our Islanders\u2019 faces after they\u2019ve made an impossible decision? Not to beat a dead horse, you know, we wouldn\u2019t have this problem if we hadn\u2019t kept Sol and Caleb around for no reason.<\/p>\n
But I suppose not every episode can be a banger. Sometimes a day in the villa just needs to get us from point A to point B. Point B, in this case, is the false sense of romantic security our Islanders are enjoying right now, which is necessary for a truly explosive Casa Amor.<\/p>\n
After the letters have all been read and couples re-established, the Islanders retire to their various neon-illuminated nooks to bask in the joy of reciprocated crushes.<\/p>\n
Sincere and Melanie\u2019s \u201cI missed you\u201ds are muffled by their mic-crushing embrace, but the imperfect audio adds to the authenticity of the moment, if anything. Sincere promises Melanie that he has no more interest in \u201cexploring\u201d Sol (we have got to find a new word for this), and Melanie, as she is wont to do, believes him. She declares Hot Girl Summer over. It\u2019s her \u201cLover Girl Summer\u201d now. In the speakeasy, Corbin and Kenzie are equally delighted to be back together. Kenzie cops to confessing the kiss to Jen, but nothing can bother Corbin now that he\u2019s got his girl back. Kenzie tells the beach hut she is happy to just keep watering her garden. Aniya and KC agree that the letter-writing allowed them to say what they needed to say. Because, according to KC, \u201cThe words weren\u2019t wording\u201d in their chats. (I still do not trust KC, but they are making out in bed, finally.) Zach, who was particularly proud of his \u201cWho would have thought a boy from England would meet you from New Hampshire\u2026\u201d bit, suggests they can read the letters at his and Kayda\u2019s wedding one day. Back in the makeup room, as all the girls wipe the concealer from their cheeks and peel off their false lashes, Trinity says she\u2019s so glad everyone went with their gut.<\/p>\n
It is, in fact, exactly the kind of vibe I, personally, like to see the weekend before Casa Amor. They\u2019re like teens in a supernatural horror movie who have just broken out the Ouija board. No one is prepared for the chaos awaiting them.<\/p>\n
The only thing that can dampen the mood now is the new couple, Sol and Caleb, who spend the following day sulking around the villa like two sexy, wounded birds. Caleb is downright shocked that Kenzie chose Corbin over him, which I find immediately irksome. After the recoupling, Kenzie pulls Caleb aside to tell him he\u2019s still the cutest cowboy; she just had a stronger connection to somebody else. While Caleb was gracious in front of Ariana, now he grumbles that he\u2019s \u201cfrustrated\u201d and feels led on. Sir, you watched her curl up on Corbin\u2019s lap yesterday. Why are you blindsided? At least, he says philosophically, he never wasted his time cutting pancakes into hearts.<\/p>\n
But while Caleb is more of a brooder, Sol is ready to let the whole villa have a piece of her mind. After an affirming pep-up conversation with Jen in the morning, Sol comes to her discussion with Sincere with all the \u201cfuck offs\u201d in her arsenal of folksy phrases. \u201cYou pissed on my leg and told me it\u2019s raining!\u201d she says, borrowing one of my dad\u2019s favorite lines. I am team Sol in this interaction, but it\u2019s hard to maintain the appropriate level of righteous rage when she\u2019s saying things like, \u201cYou\u2019re blowing smoke up my ass!\u201d As things heat up, she exclaims, \u201cBe fucking honest! That\u2019s all the fuck I ask!\u201d about five times.<\/p>\n
Sincere, who still insists he lived up to his name this entire time, is taken aback. \u201cShe kept dropping F-bombs,\u201d he complains to Melanie later, as though this were a family show. But even Melanie thinks Sol has a point here, perhaps because she has personally delivered many similar speeches to Sincere in the short few weeks she\u2019s known him, and will probably deliver more in the next few. Be that as it may, Sol and her frequent complaints about being \u201cshit on\u201d by everyone are harshing Sincere\u2019s mellow as he and Mela make out in the kitchen in front of her. This perhaps provides a little insight into why she gets dumped.<\/p>\n
To her credit, Sol does attempt to entertain Caleb. \u201cHe\u2019s an apple pie and I don\u2019t normally like apple pies,\u201d she says in the beach hut. \u201cBut maybe I haven\u2019t had, like, a honey crisp apple pie?\u201d The extended, nonsensical metaphor is so similar to some of Sincere\u2019s best work that it almost makes me regret they didn\u2019t work out. I mean, can you imagine the wedding vows?<\/p>\n
The real excitement, of course, arrives with Ariana and her fresh bob (10\/10, no notes). America has been voting. So, with collective wails, the Islanders take their places by the firepit as together we all learn if the public has been making some truly wild voting choices, such as ranking Caleb and Sol higher than the OGs. They have not.<\/p>\n
The public voted on their favorite couples, and the three couples with the fewest votes are on the dumping block. As predicted, the safe Islanders (Trinity and Bryce, Aniya and KC, Kayda and Zach, and Melanie and Sincere) must vote off the vulnerable Islanders: Kenzie and Corbin, Jen and Gabe, and Caleb and Sol. Following a familiar format, the Islanders are separated by gender. The boys must dump one girl, and the girls dump the boy. Now, at the start, I was pretty sure we were going to lose Jen and Caleb \u2014 especially when, during deliberations, KC said that if the group kept Sol, then he would commit to exploring (ugh) her.<\/p>\n
Apparently, I was wrong, and whether out of a desire to protect KC and Sincere from themselves or simply because of her weird attitude, the boys vote to dump Sol. Sincere is the one who delivers the dumping, and his only explanation is that they made their decision based on \u201cwhat has happened.\u201d Melanie, on the other hand, is long-winded in her speech before dumping Gabe. Paraphrased: the girls don\u2019t like how eager Gabe is to make out with every new girl who comes to the villa, and believe he\u2019ll never be satisfied. That, or they\u2019re just tired of hearing him have sex every night. Either way, justice for Bea.<\/p>\n
The episode ends abruptly, just in time for us to note that the boys are not happy with the girls\u2019 decision. I doubt the rift is enough to cause any real damage between our increasingly solid couples, but the cracks in Zach and Kayda\u2019s bond may be beginning to show.<\/p>\n
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