Bro! Our amigos and amigas from the island of love are they still living their “best life” since our last dip with them, in the kingdom of the Roman numeral tattoo?
I guess that they had a “big talk” after the episodes on Monday and Tuesday evening, where torrents of tears streaked their orange faces and weathered by the Caribbean sun. It was almost Jackson Pollock taking shape, “live there”, on our screens, while a stripped-down cover of the piece Titanium by Sia and David Guetta weighed down one of the most intense moments in the history of this reality show Cupid, according to host Olivier Dion.
When expressionist painting meets classical music, it’s a very good “vibe”. No need to visit a museum (a what?) to learn. Unsurprisingly, the culture on this TVA show is one of tanning and muscle.
Cédric, a 28-year-old pulp and paper operator, gave a brilliant demonstration of this on Monday evening. While his comrades were mourning the departure of two islanders, as if they had been swept away by typhus, Cédric asked the mustachioed Kevin (coach #1) for a quick push-up, to inflate his arms.
“Cédric had a photo to take and his sweater had to be tight,” noted Raphaël, 23, dismayed by the lack of empathy from Cédric, a guy who was nevertheless “insane”, according to Bianka.
Let’s put that on the back of the emotion which was at its peak, as Olivier Dion repeated several times, who must have sweat profusely in his Colonel Mustard costume, in the villa, with the lead pipe.
Monday evening, Kim (beautician #1) and bartender Édouard were sent home, because no one was “down” for them anymore. Anyway, Édouard would have “legit liked it to leave” before and would not have made a “dogfight” to stay.
And we will remember the premonitory words of Hugo, the 26-year-old fake surfer, about Kim: “a liar is not chill”. A construction worker, Hugo likes to “drop bombs” in the mined site that is the development terrace.
The blonde Kim, whose love “language was physical”, like Olivia Newton-John, has been an intricate quote factory this season. Bianka also often “made calls” to her because she was “fucking jealous” of her. But Kim, 21, had to quit because she was unable to give her man ‘what he deserves’.
Edward now. The love triangle between him, Bianka and Cédric has finally been undone, after a big “step back” from Bianka, 22.
Mixed like a game of cards, Bianka hesitated for a long time before pushing Edouard away. “I love it as a whole, but the whole thing has to be there,” Bianka philosophized about his first love at first sight in Las Terrenas.
What Edouard answered: “your inside of you”, it is the most important. That night, Bianka and Édouard slept “side by side”, even though Édouard is “so into Bianka”, like.
Since “day one”, our clairvoyant Hugo (him again!) had sniffed out the flirtation between Bianka and Cédric: “these two look like a match”, he summed up in a few words, can it be otherwise.
In addition to open or closed doors, there’s a new overused word this spring to the island of love : valid. Singles validate each other even more than a Loto-Québec machine. It’s super valid what you are going through, your reaction is 100% valid, I would like to validate two or three things with you.
Rarely have I seen so many 20-somethings filtering the experience of others through their own sieve. Affirmation: you hurt me badly by choosing Destiny (beautician #2) to go “on date”. Answer: It really is a valid feeling. Difficult to refute this concrete argument, which would invalidate the feelings of the most “overwhelmed” competitor from the Dominican Republic.
Also, in addition to standard Franglais, you must speak in truncated words at the island of love. Bianka becomes Bi, Lorie (beautician #3) becomes Lo, Destiny becomes Dess and Léonie (coach #2) becomes Lé. Repeat after me: Bi, Lo, Lé, Dess. Sounds like a Club Med song, Bi, Lo, Lé, Dess, give me your heart, give it to me.
Tuesday evening, the second double elimination, that of Léonie and Dan (coach #3), completed the morale of the candidates, who looked like they were playing in the most intense of Mexican telenovelas.
“It was really a difficult choice,” announced Hugo in the melodramatic tone of one who must decide whether to donate the organs of his girlfriend who has been in a coma for six months.
At least, these twists, which tumble from Monday to Thursday at 9 p.m. on the airwaves of TVA (average: 255,000 viewers), allow our friends to clarify their moods. Like Kevin, 24, learning to open up to his sweet Enya, 23.
“I had put myself completely vulnerable,” confided the sensitive Kevin to his gym boys after a heart-to-heart conversation with his sweetheart.
One point for Kevin’s opening, zero for his conjugation.