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Critic Reviews
The Daily BeastJul 14, 2022
Season 2 Review:
FBoy Island’s secret weapon is a killer sense of humor—especially in Season 2. ... The women provide a reality check for one another, which allows all three to proceed through the show with more confidence. As a result, we see fewer emotional breakdowns on FBoy Island than, say, during a season of The Bachelor. Instead, it’s the dudes of FBoy Island who bring most of the emotional intensity—often in the most hilarious, embarrassing ways.
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Jul 30, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Nobody in the show wants to be rejected, but even more importantly, none of them want to lose. But that only makes the show honest in its artificiality. ... It's a longform study of bad human decision-making while drunk on an emotional craft cocktail that might as well be named "I Can Fix Him." And for anyone who has shunned the whole "Bachelor Nation" discourse, it's something you may never have expected to discover in this TV genre: a good match.
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Jul 28, 2021
Season 1 Review:
“FBoy Island” is “The Bachelorette” meets “Bachelor in Paradise” meets the kind of judicious producer interference that makes a summer-treat show like this delectably icy. Glaser, who effortlessly rises to the top tier of reality hosts with this single season, embodies the vengeful wink at “fboys” underlying the series. ... “Fboy Island” works so well because it takes the “fboy” part seriously: They’re there to be ogled, judged and ultimately taken down a peg.
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Jul 23, 2021
Season 1 Review:
A funny, addictive, shrewdly executed twist on a familiar format. ... Crucially, the women not only come off as relatively intelligent and perceptive, but also generally have each other’s backs, collaboratively sleuthing to sniff out FBoys and saving each other from unpleasant dates.
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Jul 13, 2022
Season 2 Review:
This show isn’t really about the women (allegedly) looking for love; much as Satan is the most interesting character in Paradise Lost, FBoy Island is built on its villains. ... By the end of season two, I was rooting the hardest for the FBoys’ success. ... Even when some of the men are bad at being bad, FBoy Island remains a fascinating anthropological document of what dating in the 2020s is like for a very specific demographic tranche.
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Jul 23, 2021
Season 1 Review:
“FBoy Island” isn’t totally unaware of how bonkers it is, as evidenced by Glaser’s pointed jokes about the cast’s macho nonsense and the fact that eliminated “f-boys” get exiled to a beach shack labeled “Limbro.” But it also never quite interrogates its own premise enough for it to make much sense, either. ... Every episode brings a new set of arbitrary rules and allowances for when the contestants don’t feel like adhering to them; by the fifth episode, practically the entire premise crumbles in front of our very eyes.
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