Love Island Is Back! First Impressions, Bombshells, & Hot Takes From The S8 Premiere

Mention It All

Betches

After Shows, Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

4.3 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Love Island USA Season 8 is officially underway, and we're already locked in. On the premiere episode of Mention It All: Island Time, hosts Dylan and Chris break down the villa's icebreaker challenge that was anything but subtle, share their first impressions of the Islanders, and pick their favorite opening couples. From chaotic Gemini Moon energy to a bombshell who nearly made us jump off a balcony, the villa wasted absolutely no time reminding us why summer belongs to Love Island. Can you handle the heat this season is bringing? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	They're making a concerted effort to show you like, this isn't the fucking bachelor.
0:05.0	At all.
0:05.7	This isn't love is blind.
0:06.8	Thank God, honestly.
0:07.6	They're stuck in the pods.
0:08.4	They can't even see each other.
0:09.3	Is it always this horny?
0:13.5	Hey, everyone, and welcome to mention it all, Island Time.
0:17.5	Love Island USA is back for season eight, and we are going to be here recapping every single week.
0:22.5	And I have with me, Chris Burns, Fat Carrie Bradshaw.
0:26.5	How's it going?
0:27.4	Hello.
0:28.4	I am ready to discuss Love Island.
0:32.4	This is my first season.
0:33.7	This is your first season.
0:35.6	Well, yeah.
0:36.4	It's your buckle up. I'm buckled. After last night? Cancel your plans. I'm buckled. And I do hate to say I am looking forward to having something to watch every night. I know. It's one of those things where like when it's not happening and you think about the commitment, you're like, how about, why would I do? Who does that? And then the second it starts, like last night, I was kind of like, okay, I got to like, you know, we got to eat dinner, got to like clock in. Figure out some stuff and then 9 p.m. got to watch this. And then the second it started, watching these people's like little dance intros, watching. Which was shocking.
1:11.4	As a, as a first time watcher, I was not expecting music video opening.
1:16.0	We will get into all of it, but I realized that I had like a like shit eating grin on my face watching some of this episode.
1:23.9	I'm just like, I feel home.
1:25.8	I feel we're back in the insane asylum. Is the island,
1:30.5	like do they stay in that one? Pretty much. Because it looks almost like a manmade island.
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