FBOY Island

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FBOY Island
Created byElan Gale
Presented byNikki Glaser
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes10
Production
Executive producers
Production locationCayman Islands
Running time41–57 min.
Production companySTX Alternative
DistributorHBO Max
Release
Original networkHBO Max
Original releaseJuly 29, 2021 (2021-07-29) –
present (present)
External links
Website

FBOY Island, or FBoy Island, is an American dating reality television series which focuses on three women trying to identify twenty-four men as either womanizers or seeking a serious relationship. The series is hosted by Nikki Glaser and premiered on July 29, 2021, on HBO Max. In August 2021, the series was renewed for a second season.[1]

Premise[]

Hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser, the show centers on three female contestants and twenty-four male counterparts.[2] Of the men, twelve are self-professed nice guys, while the other half identify as fboys, the former being interested in forming a relationship, while the latter are competing[3] for a cash prize of $100,000 to any contestants that remain at the end.[4] During the progression of each episode the women select men to go out with,[5] all ranging between the ages of 22 to 35,[6] with the ending of the episode consisting of three men being chosen to be eliminated and afterwards revealing if they are a philanderer or not.[5] The fboys, sometimes also called Lotharios, that are eliminated are sent to "Limbro", consisting of huts made from bamboo, cots and hay-filled pillows, while the nice guys are sent in a limousine to a mansion called "Nice Guy Grotto."[7][8][9] At some point in the first half of the series, the remaining male contestants reveal their own labels to the women and audience.[9] During the complete run of the show, only the abbreviated form, fboy, is used by the contestants and host.[10]

Apart from being entertainment, creator Elan Gale has stated that the show's alternative purpose is "to try to see if people can change for the right person,"[11] with the playboys becoming better partners and the "nice guys" getting recognition for their personality.[5]

Contestants[]

Name Status Entered Eliminated
Casey Johnson FBoy Ep. 1
Chaun Williams Nice Guy Ep. 1
Collin Carter FBoy Ep. 1
Fernando Titus Nice Guy Ep. 1
Garrett Morosky FBoy Ep. 1
Greg Metelus FBoy Ep. 1
Jared Motley FBoy Ep. 1
Jarred Evans Nice Guy Ep. 3
Josh McDonald Nice Guy Ep. 1
Welcome Tjelmeland FBoy Ep. 3
Chris Gillis FBoy Ep. 1 Ep. 6
Jomar Pérez Adorno FBoy Ep. 3
Anthony Reed FBoy Ep. 1 Ep. 4
Cameron Brown Nice Guy Ep. 1
Kevin Sun FBoy Ep. 1
Paul Keating Nice Guy Ep. 1
Tariq Johnson Nice Guy Ep. 1
Jamie Wood Nice Guy Ep. 1 Ep. 3
Mark Moran Nice Guy Ep. 1
Matt Chamberlin Nice Guy Ep. 1
Rhino Garland Nice Guy Ep. 1 Ep. 3 (Medical)
Charley Santos FBoy Ep. 1 Ep. 2
Divij Vaswani FBoy Ep. 1
Israel Dimri FBoy Ep. 1
Andrew Dietz Nice Guy Ep. 1 Ep. 1
Garratt Powers Nice Guy Ep. 1
Peter Park FBoy Ep. 1

Production[]

HBO Max's first reality television dating show[6] was created by The Bachelor producer Elan Gale and showrun by Sam Dean, who also worked another HBO Max production, 12 Dates of Christmas. [5][11] Host Nikki Glaser also serves as an executive producer,[12] as do Ben Bitoni, Sam Dean, Elan Gale and Jason Goldberg.[13][14] The title comes from the slang term fuck boy, used to refer to a male womanizer, while the decision of abbreviating the term was an intention to make the show family-friendly.[11] For her part, Glaser changed the meaning of fboy to mean "fragile boy", explaining that they have low self-esteem and therefore lack care towards women.[15] The series was filmed in the Cayman Islands, in part due to "its low number of COVID-19 cases" with the cast having to arrive at Grand Cayman[16] fourteen days before shooting commenced on March 2021 to quarantine and be tested for COVID-19 on alternate days till April.[17] HBO Max marketed it as a "a social experiment that asks the age-old question: Can FBoys truly reform or do Nice Guys always finish last?"[18] It premiered on the streaming service on July 29, 2021, with the simultaneous release of its first three episodes,[3] followed every Thursday at midnight,[19] with another three being released on August 5 and the final four on August 12.[6][20] Upon release, it became the streaming service's most-watched reality program.[14] On August 18, 2021, HBO Max renewed the series for a second season.[1]

Reception[]

Salon.com's Kylie Chung called the show "highly self-aware and entertainingly self-deprecating," while pointing out its central theme of "couple goals", when the female contestants choose their partners.[12] In a separate Salon.com review Melanie McFarland commented that the show "flaunts its identity as the messy, issues-burdened lovechild of dating app culture as brightly as a neon wristband," mentioning that it is destined for both fans as well as critiques as the genre, such as commenting that the women shrug off the misogyny the men express and hoping they can alter their behavior."[21] Lea Palmieri, writing for Decider, stated that it "feels like a modern dating show throughout" since "it takes itself less seriously and celebrates how silly it is that this show even exists."[22] The Washington Post's Inkoo Kang commented that it "works so well because it takes the 'fboy' part seriously: They're there to be ogled, judged and ultimately taken down a peg" which creates "something encouraging about a show that isn't just about whether a woman can find a man, but the right one for her."[23] For her part, Time's Judy Berman, in a two-show review of the series and Sexy Beasts, commented on the former that it "happens to be a funny, addictive, shrewdly executed twist on a familiar format. I can't say the same for Beasts," and calling the female contestants "relatively intelligent and perceptive, but also generally have each other's backs."[24] The AV Club's Danette Chaves concurred with Berman, calling the women "likable and clear-eyed about the choices they're making," concluding that the show "is a work in progress, but still worth checking out."[25]

Other critics were not as favorable, such as Variety's Caroline Framke, who started her review by stating that "[i]t didn't take long for FBoy Island to make me feel like my brain was leaking out my ears, drip by stupefied drip," calling the use of the abbreviated term fboys "one of [HBO Max's] most baffling, annoying mysteries."[7] For her part, Alessa Dominguez of Buzzfeed News called it "an anemic Bachelorette", observing the lack of time "to get to know anyone … and the guys all play even bigger caricatures of the types favored by the typical reality show," calling the men "even more one-dimensional than the women."[26] Metro Weekly's André Hereford partly agreed with Berman, Chaves and Dominguez's characterizations of the female contestants stating, "[they] are all likable, but they don't make astute choices," giving the show two out of five stars for "[saving] a few jaw-dropping twists till the end, which might be too late for some who have already escaped to more inviting shores."[27] While The Daily Beast's Cheyenne Roundtree was more complementary towards the show's concept, she went on to state that it "somehow manages to teeter between an exciting, funny concept and a half-baked idea that needs to work out its kinks," the latter referring to scenes such as when the remaining contestants reveal their label and yet the women continue to foster relationships with some of the fboys.[9] Megan Reynolds of Jezebel stated that "dating shows are past the point of reinvention," with the "[attempt] to place the power back in the hands of the women, a limp gesture towards something that could be called feminism."[8]

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