Why doesn’t Temptation Island work like it does in summer in autumn?

Thinking of striking while the iron is hot and re-proposing something that worked without giving the public time to metabolize it as it should can be a double-edged sword. We are realizing this with Temptation Island which, after a particularly successful summer edition, decided to return less than two months later with some new couples which, spoiler, are still not up to the level of those of two months earlier. Beyond the ratings, the problem is another: Temptation Island it is, yes, a program that works because it is light, but it must be taken in small doses. It’s fine to watch it in the summer – also because in the summer there are almost never programs to follow – but in September and October it jars because what we see seems like a faded copy of what Canale 5 proposed in June.

If only Temptation Island the frame changed – move, for example, to the mountains, move the comparison bonfire from the beach to the cabin and transform the “dream weekend” into one on the snow on skis – things would be different because the public would not have the impression of looking at the same something he had already seen a short time before. Not to mention listening sexist talk about male braggadocio it can certainly help us have more tools to recognize certain toxicities in real life, but we cannot be bombarded by episodes of this kind all year round, because we would risk developing a sort of habituation that would not do us any good.

What works and brings results in the short term could turn into something very harmful in the long term, and this is why, beyond the specific performance of the episodes – yesterday’s, October 1st, was one of the most successful, considering especially Titty’s gesture of burning the engagement ring that Antonio gave her in the bonfire – we think that Temptation Islandif it wants to survive, should stop at just one annual edition. Unless, as we have written, it transforms a little at least from an aesthetic point of view, allowing couples to move and act in a different landscape, with Filippo Bisciglia no longer in floral shirts but in heavy fur coats.