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»Dubai Diaries - Living the Dream«: »Rolls Royce, this is like Volvo«

2022-12-22T16:31:11.967Z


RTL just won the prize for what is probably the most ignorant format of the year: "Dubai Diaries - Living the Dream" glorifies the dull influencer life with lackluster ostentation.


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The participants from left: Anthony and Nina, Sevin, Giuliana, Enisa and Simon, Selim and Sobia, and Neechen and Besian

Photo: RTL

Every truth needs a journalistic powerhouse to speak it.

Which is why one can only bow to the quality offensive muscled, Gruner + Jahr-infused media house RTL, which courageously reveals in a new format what terrible things are happening in Dubai.

"People are just not on time in Dubai," complains Enisa Bukvic, a Bosnian-Swedish model based in Dubai, because the party planner for her housewarming party is too late and then also brings inadequate decorative material with her: "The balloons aren't white enough ", Oh scary!

Then – what else is this woman supposed to endure?

– the water isn’t running into the pool fast enough either.

In addition, Enisa is deeply insecure because she doesn't know whether her new acquaintance is really evil or just looks like it because she hoarded her face with too many fillers.

Meanwhile, her boyfriend is struggling to buy a new Lamborghini because he finds a car in the screaming blue he wants, but the interior is marred with unacceptable yellow topstitching.

Not optimal.

"Just take it," groans his companion wearily.

The Lambozauderer has no other choice, because a certain standard has to be in place here.

Or, to paraphrase Enisa: »Rolls Royce, this is like a Volvo«.

"Dubai Diaries - Living the Dream" is the name of the reality soap that runs on RTL + and will probably not be caught up with in blunt ignorance this year.

Similar to the reality series »Dubai Bling« on Netflix, it tells of the completely reflection-free glamorous life in Dubai. The focus is on a YouTube social media couple who emigrated from Germany, around whom acquaintances with a similar satellite structure revolve.

"No matter what you want to do, you can do it here," says Simon Desue, the main male protagonist, "here you can live as you like," and quite a few people in Dubai would probably disagree with him.

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Now this format idea - completely uncommented, unbroken Dubai glorification - would be too dreary in itself to be seriously produced in 2022.

The fact that the »Dubai Diaries«, produced by RTL Studios, also installed Desue and Bukvic as the main characters, raises the question of whether the production simply didn't research what his background story was, or whether it simply didn't care.

The »successful entrepreneur who can afford anything«, as the press release Desue humbly marvels, initially earned his money as a prank youtuber who bathed in 40 kilograms of Nutella, smeared 100 layers of glue on his face and performed a so-called »tit Challenge« assigned pictures of breasts to the corresponding YouTubers.

He advertised a dubious gaming app with a gambling character, which was clearly aimed at his young target group, and marketed his own, at least dubious, How-I-get-rich “master class” and his “Instagram Academy” with questionable ones Ponzi scheme structures .

Desue sold Chinese teeth whitening cream and fake Airpods, among other things.

Or, as RTL puts it in the format announcement: At the age of 31, he achieved what many people dream of.

So far, so unpleasant.

But if the »Dubai Diaries« were set in Kleinschmökelsdorf and the main male protagonist were an entrepreneur in the narrower sense, the format would still be unbearable.

Desue and Bukvic live in a highly symbolic way in an extremely empty, extremely airy mansion, the main room of which is reminiscent of a luxury car dealership showroom (no cars) or a fancy funeral parlor (no coffins).

And their conversations are so empty that in the first episode two or three situations are sometimes cut into one another in order to simulate action.

The worst conversation is about the couple's first kiss, which she mistakenly thought was going to kiss her, but actually wasn't.

"Oh my gooooott," she squeaks at the memory, "I was so embarrassed," and then she's even more embarrassed because her boyfriend says that when it finally got messy, it was due to lack of practice had been pretty rusty tongue-wise.

»Höööör auuuuf«, Enisa squeaks again, and of course Simon does it all the more, »oh meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeale again and so on.

It's really unbearable, and that's only episode one.

Or, as RTL puts it: »Topics such as love, relationships, jobs, friendship, luxury and lifestyle have a completely different meaning in »Dubai Diaries – Living the Dream«.«

Source: spiegel

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