This year I feel the Producers of the show have thought "right what got us the biggest ratings over the last two series?"
What did they come up with?
CONFLICT, COUPLINGS, & TENSION. Which they were right about undoubtedly but......
Unfortunately I think they've gone too far
They've only picked HMs based on this criteria, if they don't fit in to at least one of those categories they didn't get picked.
Then they've used the same ideas in the house with conflict and tension being provided by the introduction of the bars, the silly tasks, boredom etc etc blah-blah-blah
It's just all too much it has swung too far the other way, as I've said before last years show was an excellent bit of escapism and an enjoyable dose of fun. I for one mourn the loss.
Ratings may be up but I think this was bound to happen anyway as more people wanted to jump on the bandwagon this year,
hopefully the Producers won't misinterpret this