Tonight on FOX their new reboot Fantasy Island premieres with an all-new Monday, January 2, 2023, episode and we have your Fantasy Island recap below. On tonight’s Fantasy Island season, 2 episode 2 called “Tara and Jessica’s High School Reunion/Cat Lady,” as per the FOX synopsis, “Longtime best friends, Tara and Jessica, want to rule their 30th High School Reunion, but their plans go sideways when everyone is forced to tell the truth.
Andi wants to know if her cat BoBo loves her as much as she loves him. Roarke juggles a secret romance, as Ruby and Gina spend more time together.”
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Fantasy Island was an island of mystery. What made anything and everything possible on this beautiful island? No one knows. But this miraculous place was being run by a wonderful caretaker. Elena Roarke loved the island. She grew up there and loved sharing its magic with the many who visited.
She also enjoyed its off-season with the handsome pilot that flew in the guests. He was the reason for the smile on her face. He was also the reason why she smell of sandalwood. Something Ruby noticed as they welcomed new guests to the island. Ruby tried to get Elena to confide in her and Elena just wasn’t ready to discuss her new relationship with anyone else.
Ruby dropped the subject when Elena said they should focus on the guests. Three women came to the island. The first two were best friends. Tara and Jessica were nerds in high school. They didn’t hang with the cool crowd or attended any of the parties.
Which made the most popular girl at school reach out to them a surprise. A happy surprise. She convinced them to rent a limo and that she and her friends would be there, but the truth was actually a lot more sinister. The cool kids already had a limo. They just made Tara and Jessica blow through their savings as a way of humiliating them and didn’t just stop at the limo.
The cool kids did show up. They pelted Tara and Jessica with eggs and ruined both their outfits and their makeup. The cool kids ruined the night for the girls. Now, they want to know what it feels like to be popular for once in their lives. Tara and Jessica started a company called “Tarica Solutions”.
They make good money. They had a thirty year reunion coming up and they convinced Elena to host the reunion on the island and to finally give them the chance to be popular. The others in the reunion were invited to the island with the knowledge that Tara and Jessica were the ones paying for their rooms and staying on a beautiful island resort.
Tara got to be a NY Times Bestselling Author. Jessica ran a successful charity and she got to be married to the most popular boy at their high school. Both women got everything they’ve ever wanted. They’ve even got to rub their success in the former cool girls’ faces. The popularity was thrilling.
Until a few horrible truth bombs fell. Jessica found out that she did have a chance with Ashton back in the day. He was going to ask her to prom when Jessica’s supposed best friend told him that she wasn’t interested in football players. And so Jessica confronted Tara about Ashton.
Tara claimed she was just trying to protect her best friend. But Jessica demanded to know protection from what? Happiness? Love? Jessica has only ever wanted to fall in love and she felt Tara took that away from her. Jessica stormed off after her fight with Tara.
She couldn’t look at her best friend. She also wanted to finally take the opportunity to be with Ashton. Jessica was finally getting her dream when Tara returned to her hotel room to find out her dream didn’t just end with becoming a successful author. She was also now a mother. A single mother. She returned to the room to find the nanny with the baby.
The next morning the two best friends met up. This time with a baby in tow. The two best friends haven’t told each other everything and so they wanted to be honest with each other. Elena gave them a chance. She told them they could leave the fantasy and have nothing but honesty.
They chose honesty, but they weren’t the only ones affected. The rest of the reunion class also suffered from honesty. Jessica and Tara started telling each other more hard truths. They also got mocked by the former popular girls. Their dream of being popular had ended. And they weren’t the only ones suffering disappointment.
The third woman was also struggling with it as well. Andrea was a cat mom. She spent every moment with her cat Baron whom she nicknamed Bobo. It was Andrea’s fantasy to be able to communicate with her cat. She devoted so much of her life to the cat that she thought the cat would at least appreciate it and love her back. She had been wrong.
So, very wrong. The cat was allowed to turn into a human. The very second he could get his own treats – he stopped being nice to Andrea. He said she was too much. She was always taking photos of him and making him do those cat videos. He asked why she wasn’t out on a date instead of spending every weekend with him.
Bobo tried crawling back when it began to rain. Cats, no matter their form, will always hate rain. But by then, Andrea had gotten over her disappointment. She met someone and she invited them back to her room and so she didn’t have time for Bobo anymore. She told him she was busy. He left.
Only he came back to drop off a gift at her door. He dropped off a fish and Andrea was appreciative. Andrea tracked down Bobo. He told her how much he loves her. He also said he just wants the very best for her and once they made peace – he turned back into a cat. Andrea realizes now that she does need to put herself out there. She can love her cat but she also needs to love herself.
Tara and Jessica meanwhile were confronted with prom past. They were still fighting and so seeing their past selves pig out on ice cream was the only way to mend fences. Before they were anyone else, all they had was each other. Tara did do Jessica wrong but it was because she was scared of being by herself and she was afraid Jessica would leave her. They needed each other to help them navigate high school. But their friendship also prevented them from taking risks in life. And it was in both of their best interests to break up.
They can still be friends. They just can’t be everything to each other anymore. Jessica wanted to fall in love and Tara wanted to become a mother.
And that wasn’t the only breakup. Ruby also broke up with her girlfriend, Gina. Gina said they had friend energy and not relationship energy.
And Javier, that handsome pilot, took Elena to prom. She missed hers because she was so focused on school and Tara and Jessica helped convince her to finally take a chance. She was going to be more open about her relationship with a wonderful man.
THE END!