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6 Shows To Fill The ‘Love Island USA’-Shaped Hole In Your Heart

If you watched Love Island USA every damn day this summer and have no idea how to fill that villa-shaped hole left in your heart, I’ve got you covered. And, if you are looking for shows like Love Island USA to get addicted to now that this season is over, you’ve come to the right place.

There are a million reality TV shows out there where contestants are trying to find love. However, they are not all made equally. Love Island USA capitalized on intense drama, unabashed sex appeal, audience participation, and so many episodes. Few dating shows have captured Gen Z’s hearts quite like this one has. Then again, they don’t have Huda.

On top of searching for shows with all the sexy dramatics of the villa, I want to pitch you shows that build community. To me, Love Island USA’s most unique advantage is that it has built a huge fanbase that loves to share theories, host viewing parties, and get hyped up together about the next episode. Nowadays, most reality TV shows just drop a full season at once. That leaves no time to go on TikTok to converse about what will happen next, because you can just skip straight to the following episode. So, yes, I’ll be introducing you to some hot dating shows, but I also want to suggest television that the whole internet will be watching together.

So, until the villa is popping next summer, here are six shows like Love Island USA that will keep your summer affair with reality TV alive and well.

Six Shows like Love Island USA to binge this summer:

So, if you’re spiraling that your favorite summer show has come to an end, don’t fret. These shows are here to hold you over until Love Island USA returns hotter than ever next summer.

So, if you’re spiraling that your favorite summer show has come to an end, don’t fret. These shows are here to hold you over until Love Island USA returns hotter than ever next summer.

Ginger Koehler is an editorial Intern at Her Campus. She writes for the Wellness section, mostly covering sex and relationships, and occasionally branching out to other sections.

Ginger is a student at the University of Florida. Her majors are Journalism and Theories and Politics of Sexuality, with specializations in women’s studies and magazines. Beyond Her Campus, Ginger has worked as a sex columnist for four other publications. When she’s not writing, Ginger is hosting sex education workshops for her peers at UF.

Friends compare Ginger to Carrie Bradshaw, but she fancies herself as more of a Samantha. In her free time, Ginger enjoys taking hip-hop fitness classes and reading cheesy fantasy novels.

She is liable to talk explicitly about sexual health to anyone who will listen. Her favorite self-care activity is doing unspeakable things to people she doesn’t like on The Sims 4.