There’s an island paradise dotted with sun and neon signs, where people babble on in Quebec Newspeak that only the under-30s can understand.
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In this very gender-segregated place, the male specimens of Chillings are “fucked” with their “girls” but afraid of being “turned off” after making one too many people French.
Good Kevin 100% “relates” to fake surfer Hugo’s fear of being “cancelled” by the girls who don’t want to make “the most boring match ever”.
But beware, Gen Z boys: “Just because a goalie is in front of the goalie doesn’t mean you can’t shoot,” philosophized the dynamic Kim, 21, from Val-d’Or. Did you “catch” this sports-love analogy?
Translation, for those not visiting TVA’s L’île de l’amour: the fact that Bianka (with a k, of course) and Édouard sleep in the same bed shouldn’t stop anyone from “bumping their chests”. and pull the quilt from the edge. Really not.
And despite the vitamin-packed, all-inclusive decor that inundates them with faux wealth, our islanders live under constant stress, especially when a competitor yells TEXTO in the confused tone of someone discovering the gym is closed for a week. Nooo.
One is afraid of being “swapped” with someone else, according to the “vibe” that regulates all impulses in the house. Hugo, a 26-year-old fox, has “raised several red flags” during his monosyllabic conversations with Lorie, who is looking for an obedient friend whom she will train like a dog. Correction, Hugo: We say we have “marked several red flags”.
Also on vacation in Las Terrenas, Dominican Republic, the rules of Franglais apply to Destiny and Stanley as well as to the peregrine falcon in the CAQ advertising. Yellow card for a red flag, my Hugo.
Speaking of 21-year-old Destiny, she didn’t know the meaning of the word “cannonball” in the phrase about being a cannonball to someone. On the other hand, Destiny loved the “living mustache” of her boy Raphaël, 23, the Saguenay barber with the Longueuil cut.
On the island of love, the kingdom of the striped shirt unbuttoned to the navel, the tongue explores multiple mouths and shares like that of Kevin, 24, who congratulated himself on having “spoken in all the vaults”. He was trying to say poor Kevin that he had chatted with all of you single ladies at the mansion.
Is it a sign of the end of the world that these young people are “ready” to exchange fluids in a somewhat patchy linguistic context? Of course not. Apparently, not all French speakers in their mid-20s express themselves that way. And the candidates for L’île de l’amour, a very accurate example of Quebec society (beach day, every day!), do not represent a complete generation of functional illiterates.
For its third season on TVA, L’île de l’amour has finally embraced diversity. Kim is a Medical Aesthetic Entrepreneur, Lorie is a Beauty Technician, and Destiny is a Cosmetologist. What ? As you know, these are very different professions.
Among the boys is Kevin a personal trainer, Gabriele a fitness trainer and Stanley a kinesiologist. In a last-ditch attempt to shatter any clichés associated with Cupid-esque reality TV, the cast of The Isle of Love 2023 also includes a firefighter, a construction worker and a bartender. Key word: irony.
Without being mean, the outside patio smells more like the Tropic of Hawaii than the Nobel Prize, let’s say.
The Jay Du Temple effect is still evident in an intense way with colorful manicures on the villa’s men, many of whom also wear the white pearl necklace popularized by Capitaine Twist. When Marc Dupré wears pearls at La voix, it’s an undeniable sign that the fashion trend has come to the end of its life cycle.
The Island of Love’s new host, Olivier Dion, also dares looks that we wouldn’t have seen on TVA a few years ago. We’ve got to give it to Jay Du Temple: he pulverized men’s fashion codes and disrupted the image we have of a Quebec TV host.
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Olivier Dion and Genevieve Schmidt
Now that he has only appeared in the first of five episodes of L’île de l’amour, it is difficult to assess the work of Olivier Dion, who succeeds Naadei Lyonnais in directing the ceremonies of the Flame. He seemed comfortable with mating and in control.
The narrator Geneviève Schmidt, aka Dr. Isabelle Granger in STAT, could indulge more in the succinct answer. The stuff of fun accumulates at his feet in industrial quantities, like the deposit in a $56 bottle of natural wine. Last year, Mehdi Bousaidan didn’t shy away from further clawing at the islanders, who, like an overly enthusiastic Marilou in a Hyundai ad, are acting out their wah to the fullest.