I genuinely think people are being way too unkind to Alex. I don’t think he’s angry with her for not fancying him, in fact he’s repeatedly said so. He wasn’t angry with Samira for not fancying him. In fact they stayed as friends and worked together. He’s said he was angry with Elly for being rude, making zero effort as soon as recoupling was over, and basically not speaking to him outside of task/arranged brunch for two full days. She DID say to him that she wanted to see how things go, that she hoped that when they recoupled they could let things develop more naturally (I agree the staged kiss etc was cringe) and then as soon as they recoupled she suddenly had the ‘revelation’ that she didn’t fancy him. She told Sam that she didn’t want him to pursue her as she was interested in giving Alex a chance, which Sam reported back to Alex, he obviously felt happy and pleased and excited hearing that, then 12 hours later she’s suddenly not got any interest in giving it a chance whatsoever. He ironed Sams shirt for their date and told Ellie to have a good time and that she looked lovely, that’s not incel behaviour.
I can see he’s awkward and not helped himself, but I think his annoyance is justified. And she was rude in their argument, not letting him get a word in. No she didn’t come in saying ‘Alex is the guy for me’ in so many words, but she did seem to focus on him, and she did imply to him that she wanted him to choose her so they could relax a bit more together and see how it went. To go from that to not speaking to him, avoiding him and telling everyone in the villa that she didn’t fancy him was a bit jarring. I don’t see how that’s interpretation when it’s right there on the tape as what happened? He was angry that she didn’t make any effort to get to know him, be friendly or spend any time with him once the recoupling was over - Eyal and Charlie both were angry with Hayley for the exact same thing and it got Hayley and Charlie booted out, Adam was very explicit that he ditched Kendall for not making more ‘effort’ (and in his case it was very much meant in the ‘she made no effort to suck my knob’ sense), so maybe Alex does feel ‘entitled’ for a girl to fancy him but no more so than any of the others. In fact I’d imagine they all feel entitled to it since the entire premise of the show is ‘lots of 20 something’s going in to shag’, it’s basically what they all signed up for.
Ellie and Wes should probably get together now, although it seems Megan has other plans. I’d love someone to come in that ‘worked’ with Alex but I think even if anyone did genuinely feel interested now there’d just be too much pressure and weirdness and he’s clearly massively overthinking everything so, much as I hate to say it, I do think he needs to come out. I love Jack and Danni. I’m enjoying ‘the bird’, eyebrows notwithstanding, and Samira’s attempt at flirting. Love the way she basically pushed him over after their little kiss, and the ‘like your coord’ comment. Definitely my kind of flirting. Adam is good fun when in friend situations and vile in couples. I’m hoping the reason Zara has gone quiet and dull is she’s secretly plotting his downfall in the most humiliating fashion possible, but unfortunately it seems to me she’s just gone cockblind. Josh and Georgia - meh, they’re sweet enough but I’m not feeling it, she seems like such a child.
On a side note,this is my first series and I’m not a massive reality tv watcher normally (I like to occasionally shout at TOWIE but that’s all - no jungle, BGT, made in Chelsea, Ex on beach, Geordie shore etc etc etc) But I’ve genuinely surprised myself by how overinvested I’ve become! And not necessarily in a fun way, I do wonder if I ought to back away slowly 