Time flows differently on Love Island USA. The villa is kinda like the beach from Old, except feelings are accelerated instead of aging. Islanders are expected to fall in love within days or even hours of meeting a complete stranger — and a lot of them do! At least a lot of them act like they do, maybe because there’s a huge chunk of change waiting for the most-liked couple at the end of the season. That’s why we have to give credit where it’s due and applaud Love Island USA Season 4’s Mady for keeping it real in the most unreal of circumstances.
In Sunday night’s episode, Episode 18, Mady had a teeny tiny breakdown over her current situation. Mady is currently coupled with Jared, a new islander who arrived figuratively yesterday (and, like, literally the day before yesterday). She’s spent the last 11 days (which may as well be 11 months in Love Island time) heavily involved with Andy… and also had a detour with Isaiah but, whatever, stuff happens on Love Island. But she started with Andy and was coupled with Andy when he was dumped from the Island on Day 11. Now she’s with Jared and some islanders named Chazz with two z’s are coming for her as if she’s not giving it her all.
“Damn. We’ve had two guys come in,” said Mady after hearing about about Chazz’s accusations from Sydney. “They want me to be head over heels over them immediately?”
Yes, Mady, they do. They want you to have immediately fallen in love with someone you just met 48 hours ago! Mady rightfully calls this out as being ridiculous earlier in the episode, saying that she maybe doesn’t feel super comfortable snuggling up to a guy she just met two days ago.
Let that sink in: two days ago!
TV viewers have a hard time putting the passage of time into context when it comes with reality shows, and that’s even the case for the near-nightly Love Island. We’ve never seen these people before Love Island, so we’ve only ever seen them attached to one (or two or three) of these other people that we’ve never seen before. We don’t know a Deb who wasn’t dating Jesse or a Timmy who wasn’t having a complicated relationship with Zeta. The distance that TV affords makes it seem like all of these couples have been around a lot longer than two weeks. That’s also because contestants on reality TV rarely, if ever, talk about time in concrete terms. So when Mady says that she’s known Jared for 48 hours, it cuts through all the vagueness of time and everything feels real — realer than the reality we usually see on TV.
All of this is getting to Mady, too, and understandably so! She starts crying in front of island MVP Deb, saying, “I just feel a lot of pressure and I feel like everyone just thinks that as soon as a guy walks in, I just need to be in love already and that’s just not how I work.” Girl, that’s not how people work. The rest of the islanders are just feeling the fantasy with way more ease than you are, and that should be fine! And remember: you felt the fantasy with Andy but the island demanded a sacrifice. None of this is your fault, Mady!
But as it stands, Mady is one of four women up for elimination at the moment because she hasn’t been able to immediately fall for another guy mere days after an increasingly serious relationship was put on hold. Maybe it is time for Mady to go, just so she can get back to dating at her own pace, perhaps with Andy, instead of being subjected to the villa’s romance time warp.
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