Anna Peele

So it's like such a slower burn.

And then in the US, it felt like we got shot out of a cannon this season.

But I feel like

They did that because the first few episodes can be a little boring because you're like, I don't know them and they don't know each other.

So there's no conflict that's super interesting.

It's conflict about like, oh, I didn't like you're talking to the same person I like, but I don't even know you.

So what do you owe me?

And then I feel like now they're pumping the brakes and now we're getting to see them as like human beings, except for Gabrielle, who we don't.

Yeah.

You know, what did you learn, Anna?

I mean, it's one of those things like there are these sort of like unofficial villa rules where it's like, you know, like sincere expectations.

broke this rule where it's like don't pull someone for a chat if you're in a couple without telling the person you know right right right it's like there are just these sort of like like unspoken rules that everybody knows or it's like don't go to the terrace with somebody if you're in a couple and like you like the person you're going to the terrace with and so one of the unspoken rules and so for the first few seasons of UK it was such a wild free-for-all first season they were drinking they were smoking like people were literally drunk on camera it was so wild and it was so misogynistic

It was so wild.

People were like, they'd be like, well, you gave me a hand job.

It was really ugly.

And so as the show got more popular, I would say season three to season five, they were like, okay...

they first of all they started doing training so it's like now they train them for like microaggressions they train them for like misogyny they train them for um ableism like prior to filming yes they're giving a little crash course on how to get a human department yes yeah truly they even train them like they're like okay there are gonna be like 12 people in the villa there are two bathrooms like here's how you're gonna handle like the bathroom situation because like

Imagine everyone's having their coffee in the morning.

Disaster.

Pile up.