Telecinco has just announced a change in ‘The island of temptations’. But what really needs reality is a turn to the mamarracho

In general, every time ‘the island of temptations’ announces a “historical turn” are usually quite dripping, and it was not going to be less on this occasion: reality announces to hype and saucer that “For the first time in history” is going to do an open casting To choose your contestants … when the changes you really need are not therebut in the dynamics itself and the acquired vices that weight the Telecinco formats.

Base problems

Recently, ‘The island of temptations’ has made a “historical announcement”: for the first time, the reality will do an open casting to choose the contestants, that is, instead of fence the search for the next couples who are going to “tempt” the island, Anyone can sign up and be susceptible to being chosen for it.

The program announces it as an important novelty … when In practice it will not change much of how it works per se. It is true that, seen the audience numbers of the last edition, the format is not that it faces an imperative need to renew or die, since it has managed to make profitable to guarantee its continuity in a Telecinco that grabs a burning nail to retain the audiences.

However, The teaching that reality should take from that peak of popularity who has achieved thanks to the viral moment of “Montoya, please!” (who went around the world and commented to Whoopi Goldberg) goes beyond Open the casting so that more anonymous people enter its radarinstead of limiting influencers.

All fishing contestants in social networks

Yes, it is true that the contestants are an important piece and there were already several seasons in which their participating partners had become a homogeneous amalgam, among which practically no one stood out because everyone followed the same pattern, and It will not come badly to expand the fan beyond the profile of “people who die for being a fleeting star in Telecinco”… But it is not enough with that.

If they ask me, The best thing that could happen to this format would be to cancel itbecause I think it has very bad basic ideas (to exploit infidelities, negative feelings or the ideal harmful beauty that promotes this program, so to speak briefly) that make it hardly salvageable.

How fun to see how this poor person breaks! Put it again!

But well, taking into account that this option is not contemplated, and less with the rebound of the last season, we will ignore the option of a pious death for the program and observe All aspects that have margin of improvement and that could suppose much more change than simply making an open casting.

Can this disaster be fixed?

Looking once again towards the moment “Montoya, please!”, If something should make clear from this phenomenon is the potential of reality as meme. Without going any further, the fans of ‘Lidlt’ have already been demonstrating more creative than the scriptwriters themselves, with the arsenal of memes that share in networks while each gala is broadcast.

Thus, the program is cannon meat for this type of content, but in the galas itself it is not exploited enough because They recreate much more in drama And in trying to force moments that awaken the most petty side of their contestants, that in taking advantage of the involuntary comedy that arises constantly.

Less infidelities and more Hulk moments!

It is there that it is clear that Mediaset’s gears are oxidized and continue to use resources that worked at their time, but today they are more than obsolete. ‘Lidlt’ aspires to be mamarracha, and The mamarracho is always accompanied by a casual tone And enjoy the spectator participates that, in the end, all this “is nothing more than a game.”

But It costs a lot to enter this mood Seeing a program that is given so much with the suffering of others and whose dynamics are diverted to cause the contestants to vomit bile on each other (couples with each other, contestants against tempting and tempting who have “stolen” the boyfriend …).

Besides, I still think that To be a type of show That people see for Salseo, the galas are boring: Between that they last more than two hours, that end late, that there are more ads than program and that really only in 15% of the footage passes “something”, while the rest are all the time parties and the contestants repeating the same for the same time in the interviews … I really do not see the light entertainment that in theory would have to be this.

“Hey, Sandra, do you think they are proposed to put less ads in the next edition?” “… nop”.

Al reality It lacks a key element that could be decisive: self -consciousness. If I were aware of what type of program it is and that translates into more comic moments, could give much more play and people would receive it with open arms in networks.

It is not necessary to go to titles from outside as ‘Fboy Island’ to be able to look In Mediaset itself they have examples of realities in which humor predominates: The ‘First Dates’ himself or the best seasons of ‘Who wants to marry my son?’

What would still have the same base problems? Yes, but at least it would give them much more freshness and the opportunity to last something more in the memory of their audience, because At the moment it still does not transcend its nature of seasonal phenomenon (no matter how much success that season 8 has had, a few days after the end of the conversation disappeared completely and no one remembers their contestants, with the exception of that kind of spin-off who have done with Montoya and Anita in ‘Survivors’).

I think that It would be the change that could make a difference for an inevitable season 9although it is clear that they will not even consider it, because in Telecinco they still do not change the chip in selling the same motorcycle again and again, to see if the flute now sounds. Then, if they wanted to make shorter galas and even introduce some type of objective in the dynamics (because it remains a program without any goal, beyond scrubing them against tempting and tempting until someone falls) they could aspire to make people look at the whole galas … for asking not to be.

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