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Hi guys, I'm Emma.

And I'm Julie.

And welcome to our Love Island finale debrief.

Hey Joel.

Hi, Am.

I feel like I don't know what to do with myself now that it's over.

All good things really must come to an end, huh?

Yeah, and you can say we didn't have fun. Like, we truly had the time of our lives. Of course we had fun. By the way, we had

every emotion in the book. I know. And the thing is, I am obviously sad that it's over and also

it had to end. Like after 36 episodes, we have gotten everything from this season that we could

have gotten. And I do want to say, like, I'm really sad that it's over, but we do have this episode.

You know what I mean? Like, let's not cut ourselves short. We still get an hour of discussion here.

And thank God for that, quite frankly, because where we left off was 32 where they were playing basketball,

Chris confronts Huda about not wanting to kiss them in front of people.

Like, we have lived 18 lives since then.

My thought on why we had this feeling of like, as sad as I am, I'm ready for this to be done,

is I think between the Chris and Huda of it all and the shock of

Aeson Shelley being sent home, we had this collective feeling of like, okay, it's time for us to go

outside again. It's time for us to read a book, to touch grass, to see our friends, to talk about

something else. Like those two events happening simultaneously was a big wake-up call for us watchers.

The thing with Shelley and Ace, we don't have to really get into it because I know at this

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