Love Island<\/a><\/p>\nEpisode 32<\/p>\n
\n Season 8<\/p>\n
Episode 32\n <\/p>\n
\n Editor\u2019s Rating<\/p>\n
4 stars<\/p>\n
****\n <\/p>\n
\n America and the Islanders\u2019 family members are in alignment: Brinity forever, Kenzie is innocent, and Melanie needs to dump Sincere.
\n Photo: YouTube\n <\/p>\n
Family Day is one of the most beloved Love Island traditions \u2014 probably because every person who has ever watched this show has thought, at one point or another, What must their parents think? The event, when each Islander is visited by two loved ones, is our opportunity to check in with those parents firsthand. How do Kenzie\u2019s mom and dad feel about her emotive splits-ing, for instance? Did Kayda\u2019s dad watch her in the Hideaway with Zach? Does KC\u2019s mom approve of Titi? That kind of thing.<\/p>\n
In most cases, I find parents tend to give their kids a lot more grace than the audience, which is understandable, if occasionally disappointing. Very rarely do you get a dad flying all the way to Fiji for the express purpose of really parenting. Which is what makes Sincere\u2019s father, Benjamin, the real MVP of Family Day (sponsored by Coffee-Mate). Bryce\u2019s grandma, however, is in a close second place.<\/p>\n
Functionally, Family Day can do a lot to confirm a relationship\u2019s authenticity or to poke holes. Aniya\u2019s and Carl\u2019s families are ready to start planning group vacations (which feels especially right on a morning when Carl is left slack-jawed by Aniya\u2019s beauty). KC\u2019s and Titi\u2019s mothers\u2019 mutual soft-spoken interactions with each other do a lot to explain why their children seem to click so effortlessly. However, Kayda\u2019s mom and sister do not seem 100 percent sold on Zach \u2014 even with Charlie there to vouch for him. But I\u2019d say there were three major highlights to Family Day this year.<\/p>\n
The first visitors to arrive at the villa are Trinity\u2019s mom and sister and Bryce\u2019s mom and grandma. Clearly, when KC called Aniya \u201cgrandma,\u201d he had not met Anne, who wants to know when they\u2019re going to send these kids to the Hideaway. \u201cCome on, you\u2019re fighting nature here!\u201d she tells the beach hut. Immediately, I would die for her. She interrupts the conversation about Bryce\u2019s loveliness to shout to Kenzie, \u201cEven if he has turtle tongue, right?\u201d Paradise Cove comes up, and his grandma observes, philosophically, \u201cSomebody gets underserved in a three-way.\u201d I\u2019ll bet no one is more confused by the Islanders\u2019 use of the word \u201clustful\u201d than Bryce\u2019s grandmother. Obviously, Anne and Bryce\u2019s mom, Keri, love Trinity because, as someone said earlier in the day, \u201cIt\u2019s very hard not to like you, Trinity.\u201d Trinity\u2019s mom and sister approve of Bryce in return, having become convinced of their love connection at the same time as the rest of us \u2014 when Trinity cried over him during Casa Amor.<\/p>\n
Now Bryce and Trinity get to spend the rest of the day watching everybody else\u2019s home visits and providing commentary like sportscasters. Mostly, this is Bryce observing how beautiful everyone\u2019s family is because I don\u2019t think Bryce has gotten even a whiff of a bad vibe from the moment he returned from Casa and found Trinity waiting for him alone. You know what, I don\u2019t care if there\u2019s only a couple of days left \u2014 I\u2019m with Grandma Anne. Send these kids to the Hideaway!<\/p>\n
I, for one, have been eager to get Dylan\u2019s mom\u2019s verdict on Kenzie ever since he said he wouldn\u2019t really know what to think until he got his mom\u2019s approval. Turns out, Kenzie put in way more effort than she needed to because Dylan\u2019s mom, Carrie, was on Kenzie\u2019s side the whole time. Dylan explains his reservations about Kenzie to his mother, and she tells him the same thing everyone in America has been saying: \u201cI don\u2019t really think she did anything wrong,\u201d Carrie tells her son. And even if Kenzie hurt your feelings, Carrie continues, \u201cShe did apologize.\u201d Kenzie takes the extra step of pulling Carrie for a one-on-one chat, and Carrie basically says, Seriously, don\u2019t even worry about it.<\/p>\n
Dylan seems to be reassured both by his mom\u2019s dismissal of his concerns and the fact that Kenzie has a real family. As long as we\u2019re here, we should take a minute to mention Kenzie\u2019s video call from her dad, which was sweet. \u201cThe beauty of love is you only have to get it right once,\u201d he tells her.<\/p>\n
I mean, I still think Kenzie and Dylan are going to break up before the reunion, but it\u2019s nice to know they have supportive and reasonable parents.<\/p>\n
All day, as families come and go from the villa, dispensing hugs and kisses and requests to \u201cTake good care of my girl!\u201d everyone is anxiously anticipating how Sincere\u2019s and Melanie\u2019s family visit is going to go down. Except Sincere and Melanie, who think their families will see how in love they are and forgive everything that came before. Well, the first thing we see Sincere\u2019s dad say to Melanie\u2019s family is, basically, that he\u2019s sorry for his son. So you already know this is not going to be the wholesome, lovey-dovey meetup everyone else got.<\/p>\n
The real talk begins almost immediately when Melanie\u2019s sister Stephany says, \u201cWe have a lot to talk about, especially about my \u2018beloved.\u2019\u201d (Bryce, still using his sportscaster voice, tells Trinity from a few daybeds away, \u201cThis is a very important conversation. Melanie is so close to her mom.\u201d) Benjamin quickly jumps in to back up Stephany, saying his family is \u201crooting for you,\u201d as in Melanie. \u201cThe shit he did \u2026 I didn\u2019t travel 7,000 miles to support that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Once separated, Benjamin proceeds to give his son the business in terms that rival some of Melanie\u2019s greatest one-liners: \u201cI would never let someone sit at a table with me that moved like that.\u201d \u201cYou have this beautiful woman standing on ten toes waiting for you, and you\u2019re still out here exploring.\u201d \u201cTo lead these women on and then cut \u2019em down? \u2026 These are grown women!\u201d Meanwhile, Stephany is in tears, begging Melanie to please just leave this guy because she doesn\u2019t deserve this and he\u2019s not treating her right. Then Zoila tells her, in Spanish, \u201cYour heart is sacred.\u201d She adds, \u201cWhy are you gonna give him a second chance when there are so many waiting for their first?\u201d Melanie, honey, baby, angel, love, if you won\u2019t listen to America, your friends, Sincere\u2019s family, or your sister, please listen to your mother.<\/p>\n
Alas, at the end of the day, once everyone has gone, Melanie says, \u201cI think I\u2019m just gonna be true to myself and not listen to everyone else.\u201d I can\u2019t wait for this train wreck to be over.<\/p>\n
Now, with only two episodes of the season left, we wait for America\u2019s votes to determine which two couples are getting dumped ahead of the finale. In a just world, the public would save Melanie from herself by voting for any couple but them. Unfortunately, this is not a just world (which we already knew, since we are apparently not getting a fake-baby episode either), and Melanie\u2019s personal winsomeness is probably going to carry her and Sincere into the final four regardless of their relationship\u2019s clear toxicity. Since Trinity and Bryce and Aniya and Carl are all but guaranteed to go all the way, it is now a battle between Kayda and Zach, KC and Titi, and Kenzie and Dylan for the final spot.<\/p>\n
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