Fantasy Island

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TV Episode

Fantasy Island (v3s01e01), pt. 2

Mel Loves Ruby

I see the original 1977 Fantasy Island through nostalgia-colored glasses, making it hard for any island-come-lately to compete in my eyes. So I was happily surprised when I enjoyed the premiere of the 2021 revival, complete with a relative or the original Mr. Roarke and a new sidekick named Ruby. In the second of the episode’s two subplots (“Mel Loves Ruby”), there is even a bit of time-related fantasy when the island makes Ruby young again (although without sending her back in time). —Michael Main
What is your deepest desire, your most heartfelt need? The island knows, even if you don’t.
Roselyn Sánchez (as Elena Roarke), dressed all in white, stands with photos of the ocean and lush greenery behind her.
  • Fantasy
  • Time Phenomena
TV Episode

Fantasy Island (v3s01e02), pt. 2

The Heartbreak Hotel

As with the first episode of the 2021 Fantasy Island revival, the second has no actual time travel, but the side-plot (“The Heartbreak Hotel”) does have a time-related phenomenon when Elena and Mr. Jones try to connect with a grieving widower who wakens only once every five years to see whether life is worth living. —Michael Main
Okay, that’s not the deal my great uncle made. Now, you’re allowed to sleep on Fantasy Island as long as you wish, but every five years, you have to spend at least 48 hours awake.
As unknown dog actor (as the golder retriever Mr. Jones) sits and looks happily alert.
  • Fantasy
  • Time Phenomena
TV Episode

Fantasy Island (v3s01e03)

Quantum Entanglement

The new Fantasy Island inches closer to actual time travel when Elana helps “invisible” Eileen understand her relationship with her grown daughter by acting as a Dickensian guide and showing Eileen how her daughter experienced growing up. And young Ruby receives news of how her family is managing without her. —Michael Main
Eileen: She absolutely loved it here.
Elena: Are you sure?
Kiara Barnes (as young Ruby Akuda), dresseed in white, looks wiser than her years with tropical trees behind her.
  • Fantasy
  • Debatable Time Travel
TV Episode

Fantasy Island (v3s01e04)

Once Upon a Time in Havana

Finally! Some Actual Time Travel™ as Elena takes young drummer Alma Garcia back to 1967 Havana to learn the real story of the musical grandfather who abandoned his family decades ago—and the role Alma played in that single, static timeline. —Michael Main
Grandfather: Who are you? Where do you really come from? Elma: Just an Americana who plays the drums.
Gigi Zumbado (as Alma) smiles at night in front of a chain-link fence.
  • Fantasy
  • Music and Musicals
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Fantasy Island (v3s01e05)

Twice in a Lifetime

The Island takes Nisha into two different versions of her future life in order to help her decide which man to marry. Only the Island knows whether Nisha is actually time traveling or merely experiencing potential futures, but the story’s ending suggests the latter. And meanwhile, out in the Island wilderness, Elena and Javier share intimate moments. —Michael Main
Let the future unfold.
John Gabriel Rodriquez (as Javier with a five-o
  • Fantasy
  • Debatable Time Travel
TV Episode

Fantasy Island (v3s01e06)

The Big Five Oh

Lifetime friends Camille, Margot, and Nettie are celebrating their 50th birthdays on the Island along with a bit of time-slowing for Margot and a non-interactive trip to view a potential future for all three. —Michael Main
Margot [after seeing the future]: Was that real?
Elena: As of this moment, yes.
Daphne Zuniga, Josie Bisset, and Laura Leighton (as Margo, Cam, and Nettie) hug it out with smiles, champagne, and long white, terrycloth bath robes.
  • Fantasy
  • Debatable Time Travel
TV Episode

Fantasy Island (v3s01e07), pt. 2

The Bromance

Brian Cole, a hard-core survivalist, faces his greatest challenge: working with and understanding his own young self. —Michael Main
I might be you, but I’m not a moron.
Lying on a rocky slope, Eric Winter (as Brian Cole) looks skyward while an out-of-focus Roselyn Sanchez (as Elena Roarke) stands calmly in the background.
  • Fantasy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Fantasy Island (v3s01e07), pt. 1

The Romance

To help Miss Marshall find her way in the real wrld, the Island sends her to Victorian England to spend time with her favorite author. —Michael Main
Do you ever think you were born in the wrong time?
Lyinging on a blanket in a Victorian gardan, Caitlin Stasey and Gillian Saker (as Isabel Marshall and Rachel Coldwater) share a quiet moment reading a book together.
  • Fantasy
  • Definite Time Travel