Something is happening in "Koh-Lanta". Not just screams, tears, victories, defeats, disappointments, betrayals. No. These are the ingredients of every good season. This year, the adventure game of TF 1 unleashes passions like never before, frightens audiences and social networks. Latest example on Friday with more than 7 million viewers, best score of the season and record since 2013. So why so much love ... and hate anyway. Attempt to explain.
Large spaces ... in full containment. "It's Friday, it's Koh-Lanta". We cling to what we can in this period of confinement. Failing to go out, to be able to start the weekend, the front page program has become an unmissable weekend event. Let's face it, we would almost be ready to shed a little tear when seeing his images of heavenly beaches, turquoise blue sea or giant and carefree rays. And, let's face it, it feels good to be able to enjoy these postcard images in the great outdoors even if on the spot… it's not the holidays.
The Sam case. We immediately spotted little Sam: determined look, silent candidate and athletic performer. The kind not to be there for fun. Even less to do figuration. And for good reason at 21 years old, the young Alsatian realizes the dream of his life. From a very young age, he only thought of "Koh-Lanta". So no way to miss. He was touching Sam when he saw Teheiura and Moussa, two former champions returning this year, two heroes of his youth, arriving in the game. The smile, finally, to the ears like a kid. As if a Johnny fan or a group of Rihanna could live day and night next to his idol. Touching and also annoying when he had no pity for his opponents who "do nothing on the camp", eliminating the less efficient as in a sports competition. Except that Koh-Lanta is much more than that. Sam learned about it the hard way and ended up being eliminated despite his victories. An injustice? As there are many others each season. However his departure last Friday caused disproportionate reactions on the Net, and generated death threats and rape for his opponents. The effect of containment for some who are starting to lose their temper? Quite serious in any case so that the production decides to seize the public prosecutor. Because there, we no longer play.
Mind-blowing characters. It started very strong with a candidate that we have forgotten since. But, remember. Long before imagining that we were going to follow this season locked up in our house, Joseph set the tone, from the first broadcast, by stubbornly wanting to make the fire ... before extinguishing it voluntarily with anger while he was about to be eliminated. Unheard of since the start of "Koh-Lanta" in 2001. Then there was Ahmad, more strategist than adventurer, about to drown from the start, but swimming like a fish in the water in the middle alliances and betrayals. At the time of reunification, he sacrifices Delphine, to whom he had almost sworn a hand on the heart to never vote against her. The interested, ulcerated, balances her four truths in a scene of anthology, in the midst of aphorisms and other proverbs of the kind "We will never make a donkey a racehorse", completed in tears by an instruction to his comrades: “skip it! ", Understand for the uninitiated" eliminate it at the next council. "Side cult sentence, we will never get tired of the mythical" There is no fatigue that is "Sara who had to accept the fatigue all the same. By dint of repeating herself, she exceeded her limits, pulled out her guts and made an abdominal disembowelment. Seriously injured forced to give up, she even had to undergo surgery on her return.
A tragicomic finale. The more it goes, the less it goes among the adventurers. The summit was undoubtedly reached with the double elimination of Charlotte and Teheiura this Friday evening. A shame when they had everything not to leave the game First, the Tahitian champion had found some time ago a collar of immunity which was to protect him from elimination. Then, he and his teammate of the day, winners of the comfort test had, as a bonus, obtained a clue to try to find an immunity collar. Bingo. Here's a second one. Impossible therefore to lose. And yet… Teheiura wanted to take out the necklace they had just found during the final council and the votes. Charlotte no. What to do ? Nothing. Neither Charlotte nor Teheiura have revealed their secret weapon. Result after a close vote, Charlotte is eliminated and leads her partner in his fall. She falls from the clouds and admits sheepishly that she had a necklace in front of some adventurers as dismayed as amused. Teheiura puts on a layer again and admits that he "forgot" that he too had a necklace and did not take it out. What actually drive us crazy.
