History Series / FantasyIsland2021

** Isabel's heartbroken at having left Rachel in the past, and leaps at the offer to stay there permanently with her that Elana provides.

* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Elena reveals one for her great-uncle Mr Roarke from the original series: during his tenure, a male guest fell in love with a mermaid (not Isla, one of her fellow mermaids) and chose to become a merman forever; Roarke deeply regretted "losing" a guest this way]].

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: In "Gwenivere of Gwendale", the title character denounces leeches as "barbaric". While more efficient methods have since been found, leeches are in fact a medically useful way of sucking toxins out of the blood, not just a sign of medieval ignorance. Some plastic surgeons still use them.

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: In "Gwenivere of Gwendale", the title character denounces leeches as "barbaric". While more efficient methods have since been found, leeches are in fact a medically useful way of sucking toxins out of the blood, not just a sign of medieval ignorance.

* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Elena reveals one for her great-uncle Mr Roarke from the original series: during his tenure, a male guest fell in love with a mermaid (a different mermaid than Isla) and chose to become a merman forever; Roarke deeply regretted "losing" a guest this way]].

* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Isla]] turns out to be a mermaid. Here, they have the usual look of a human upper body with a fish lower half. However, they can also [[VoluntaryShapeshifting turn fully human]] temporarily, and even make humans merfolk as well. Further, Isla is attracted to women, offering Ruby ([[InterspeciesRomance her human lover]]) the transformation so they can stay together all the time. It turns out they also have [[SirensAreMermaids siren powers]] to attract mortals, so much that Ruby even starts losing memories of her family.

* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Isla]] turns out to be a mermaid. Here, they have the usual look of a female human upper body with a fish lower half. However, they can also [[VoluntaryShapeshifting turn fully human]] temporarily, and even make humans mermaids as well. Further, she's attracted to women, offering Ruby ([[InterspeciesRomance her human lover]]) the transformation so they can stay together all the time. It turns out they also have [[SirensAreMermaids siren powers]] to attract mortals, so much that Ruby even starts losing memories of her family.

* IslandOfMystery: Just like in the original, although the broad strokes of what happens on Fantasy Island is well known to the public now.

* IslandOfMystery: Just like in the original, although what happens on Fantasy Island is well known to the public now.

* GeneHunting: Season 2 introduces Helene, a young woman whose wish is to find her birth father, whom she never met because her mother conceived her with him in [[OneNightStandPregnancy a one-time thing]] (GladToBeAlive sex when they survived a hurricane in the rainforest). [[spoiler:He turns out to be Javier; Helene decides to stay on the island for a while, wanting to get to know him.]]

* GeneHunting: Season 2 introduces Helene, a young woman whose wish is to find her birth father, whom she never met because her mother conceived her with him due to [[OneNightStandPregnancy a one-time thing]]. [[spoiler:He turns out to be Javier; Helene decides to stay on the island for a while, wanting to get to know him.]]

* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: In "Girlboss, Interrupted" the episode's guest Courtney gets mind-reading powers. She isn't pleased at how many people insult her in their thoughts, and some off.

Fantasy Island is a SequelSeries to the 1970s Creator/AaronSpelling series ''Series/FantasyIsland'', starring Creator/RoselynSanchez as Mr Roarke's successor and great-niece Elena Roarke, Creator/KiaraBarnes as her right-hand woman Ruby, and Creator/JohnGabrielRodriquez as resort pilot Javier.

Fantasy Island is a SequelSeries to the 1970s Creator/AaronSpelling series ''Series/FantasyIsland'', starring Creator/RoselynSanchez, Creator/KiaraBarnes, and Creator/JohnGabrielRodriquez.

** As in the original series, it takes guests a bit to realize these really are wildly magical events from body swaps to time travel, occurring to them.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Isabel tells Rachel she "read her book one-handed" and they flirt about this afterward.

* ObsessedWithFood: In the pilot episode, Christine‘s fantasy is to gorge herself on all the food she’s been depriving herself of — but was secretly obsessed with.

** "Paymer vs. Paymer" features an unhappily married couple that resembles an older version of Mike and Susan from ''Series/DesperateHousewives'', played by Teri Hatcher and James Denton from that series.

* SwappedRoles: "Walk a Country Mile" has a super-successful female country star and her harried male assistant visit with the music star wanting a big life again and the assistant brushing off wanting a fantasy of his own. Roarke interprets one of the lyrics of her biggest hit to swap them so the assistant is the country star and she has to figure a humble way to over her writer's block.

* IncompatibleOrientation: In Season 2 one of the visitors turns out to be a gay man who loves a good (straight) male friend of his. He confesses this publicly, and his friend warmly accepts this, but makes it clear that he doesn't love him that way, as his gay friend realizes. They remain friends after this.
* InterspeciesRomance: It turns out that Ruby's LoveInterest Isla is really a mermaid. Ruby is human, though given [[FountainOfYouth extended youth]] by being on the island.