FBoy Island

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.

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.

If you’re a fan of The Bachelor franchise or Love Island, Love Is Blind, and Too Hot To Handle, just jump right in. Don’t even think about it, you know you’re gonna love this.

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.

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.

FBoy Island somehow manages to teeter between an exciting, funny concept and a half-baked idea that needs to work out its kinks.

“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.

I gave this show a five, the highest score because they made some changes this season that were really good for the survival of the series. I was very disappointed to see that Garrett in season one was cheated out of the $1000,000 he won for opting to take the money over the girl. The shows producers were appalled that a contestant would choose money over love. So instead of awarding Garrett the money, the “loosing” girl got to choose what charity to donate the money to. This season, they solidified that the FBoy had the option to choose the money and actually keep it if they wanted to. That set the stakes higher, and introduced the girls ability to choose none of the two finalists, & opt to keep the money for herself. This really turns the tides and now gives the girls the same power as the FBoys. We’ll done, and looking forward to season 3.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]