![]() ![]() "Temptation Island" demonstrated, perhaps unwittingly, that a certain degree of willful ignorance and denial may be crucial to maintaining a relationship intact. ![]() The couples were made for each other like oil and water, and yet, in the disappointing final episode, they decided to stay together forever. We saw the fault lines of what lyricist Lorenz Hart once ineffably called "the fine miss-mating of a him and her." While the show engaged us with well-filled bikinis and overdeveloped pecs, we also got to watch some well-deserving people get put through the wringer. Reality TV has quickly become a punch line, in no little part because of conceptions like "Temptation Island." But on Fox over the last few months, something interesting happened on the way to the gutter. They were kept apart and told to test their commitment to one another while surrounded by a swarm of predatory "fantasy singles" of the opposite sex. ![]() In January, we settled in to watch four couples - Shannon and Andy Ytossie and Taheed Valerie and Kaya and Billy and Mandy - spend two weeks on a Caribbean island. "Temptation Island," the Fox reality show that managed - with no competition, no winners and no fabulous cash prizes - to fascinate a grudging niche of viewers over the past eight weeks, ended last Wednesday with a whimper. ![]()
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