Leftovers season 2 episode 8

Superficially, this year's batch of three Irish Love Island contestants looked more or less identical to everyone else on the show; shiny, buff and lip-filled. But, looks apart, it turns out nothing has changed; Irish people are still in some odd way that little bit distinctive. First there was Yewande Biala, a woman in possession of the kind of extreme aversion to showing her feelings you would expect from an old Kerry bachelor. Go Yewande. Next came Maura Higgins, sweetly pretty at first look, but with a tongue so sharp and a delivery so strident that within a couple of weeks she was being hailed as a miracle of modern feminism - and I mean this went global. Much kudos, and a possible presenting stint on ITV, await her when she exits. And finally there was late-arrival and charming rugby player Greg O'Shea, who - it quickly emerged - was hiding a farmer's tan under his Essex-boy disguise, and an impulse for discretion around his first kiss with Amber that set him apart from the herd. … [Read more...] about Life lessons from Love Island