"Love Island USA" Reunion: Everything They Got Wrong + the Blake Lively "It Ends With Us" Fiasco Got Worse

The most underwhelming 90-minutes of reality television award goes to...Love Island USA!

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Welcome to today’s episode of “Ahead of the Curve with Coco Mocoe”! We will be diving into the hot mess that was the “Love Island USA” Reunion which aired last night on Peacock. I have never seen a reunion fumble so badly.

For paid subscribers, we will be discussing more thoughts on the Blake Lively “It Ends With Us” marketing fiasco which only got worse since my last podcast about the topic:

Plus, I want to briefly touch on the bizarre world that is TikTok Shop. Has anyone else noticed how bad it has gotten?

Thank you for reviewing the podcast on Apple and Spotify to help it grow in the charts! I believe we are in the top 30 of “Entertainment News” as of last week, eek!

Time Stamps:

0:00 - Introduction 

1:39 - Love Island USA Reunion 

4:00 - How they should’ve formatted the reunion

6:50 - Liv is the leader of the cast

8:25 - The firepit convo where they voted out Andrea

9:50 - JaNa talks about unaired topics from reunion

10:23 - Aaron vs Kaylor Drama at Reunion

14:20 - Miguel & Leah vs Rob 

16:24 - Kendall & Nicole Clip 

18:20 - Love Island Vs. Love is Blind Vs. Bravo Reunions 

24:36 - Blake Lively Situation Got Even Worse

26:30 - Colleen Hoover’s problem 

28:00 - Where Justin Baldoni went wrong

30:40 - Why Blake Lively will struggle to repair her reputation

32:51 - Was this Blake Lively’s Oscar run?

36:05 - What does Blake Lively do next?

38:30 - The bizarre world of TikTok Shop

Watch my previous episode on “Love Island USA” here:

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Coco Mocoe
Ahead of the Curve with Coco Mocoe
Coco Mocoe is a marketing professional with a background in entertainment and digital media. From producing videos with celebrities for TikTok and YouTube to dissecting internet phenomenons and trends -- she has done it. And now she will do it weekly on the podcast. Tune in each week for internet news, entertainment stories, rising stars, trend predictions and more. But most importantly, remembering the human behind the handles.
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