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Lukas Cordalis and Daniela Katzenberger: Will you ever be able to love them as unconditionally as in their meerkat incarnation?
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It might seem a little time-consuming to bring a whole show season up and down the stage just for a few yodeled vocal lines, and of course this idea sounds incredibly pathetic, but it doesn't make it any less true: So maybe the second »The Masked Singer ”season this year alone was worth it for just that tiny moment, in which Veronica Ferres sang her solo part in the opening community song in the finale - in her bee costume body, but without head covering - unrestrainedly crooked and with disarming euphoria.
Completely worked out at the moment, completely unimpressed by what came out of it in terms of sound and who would find it how.
If that didn't grab you, you would get the unmasking of Alec Völkel at the latest, more precisely the moment when the Boss Hoss singer had just put down his alien head with the golden coffee filter-bag ears and turned around for a moment.
And you saw again that this hybrid creature from two actually opposing emotion projections - the edgy male celebrity and the super soft mask cover - had an incredibly touching, bunny-like stubby tail.
Deep, genuine sympathies for the animals
"The Masked Singer" was also rich in such small moments in its third season, and the format also reminded you of two things that you sometimes forget in the sometimes dreary TV gaff routine.
The first: You can also watch TV without ever having to consider which of the people to whom you watch just one actually at least
not
like.
Perhaps there have been a few too many formats in the past few weeks in which spit and poisoning or - on the contrary, but no better - a few Instagram followers have been tricked into being more sleazy.
But for the little animals in "The Masked Singer" you could finally develop deep, real sympathy again.
Perhaps that is rather counterproductive for the concept of the show, but in the finale it actually felt almost irrelevant which celebrity or which celebrity was now in the remaining five costumes, because they loved to win the detailed modeled characters that they actually were didn't want to give up.
Lukas Cordalis and Daniela Katzenberger may be all right - but will you ever be able to love them as unconditionally as in their meerkat incarnation?
The second forgotten thing: You trust this show with sophistication, and it's nice that you have basically kept this willingness, even if you only had to watch Cathy Hummels and Stefanie Hertel for five hours elsewhere a few days ago Example: Rolling out dough.
One candidate for the wearer of the Anubis costume, who has been mentioned repeatedly in recent weeks, was Klaas Heufer-Umlauf.
A suspicion that was supposedly refuted when "The Masked Singer" was broadcast last week on Monday, that is, on the broadcast day of "Late Night Berlin".
On top of that, Heufer-Umlauf also interviewed the long-nosed aggro god of the dead in his program on the "Masked Singer" set.
Nevertheless, there remained a residual suspicion as to whether this supposed exclusion indicator would not be exposed as a sophisticated trickster piece in the final.
In fact, singer Ben Blümel, better known only by his first name, was in the costume, who was also acting as a plausible contender.
That was not a disappointment, it was enough that the more complex double-bottom solution had been considered entirely possible.
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Sarah Lombardi in a skeleton costume wins "The Masked Singer" - completely without Alessio-is-alright-memes and over-everything gossip-stories filter
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In the end, the best singer of the season, Sarah Lombardi, won with the skeleton, so to speak, the alternative to the very happy Ferresbiene.
Actually, this undermines the idea that "The Masked Singer" is not a singing competition, but a crazy critters show, but the win is still okay (even if, for example, the ballet hippopotamus in a pink tutu, played by chef Nelson Müller that embodied a more beautiful message).
Because for Lombardi her (unrecognized, albeit suspected) appearances in costume may have been the first moments in a long time when only her singing was heard and she was only seen as a singer - without Alessio-is-it-well- Memes and over-the-top gossip filters.
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