After two mixed seasons, how "Koh-Lanta" can reinvent itself

• TF1 offers this Tuesday evening the final of 

  Koh-Lanta: The legend

   after fifteen weeks of broadcasting.

• The great start of this new season ended up being unbalanced by the cheating of Teheiura, from which other candidates took advantage.

• End of the all-star seasons, return to basics… How could the program find a second youth?

Saved by the first confinement,

falters again on the eve of the conclusion of its anniversary edition. The show was believed to be solid on its footing thanks to the excellent performances of

and

last year, but the poles on which it rests are hit by strong winds. After the season of

, which did not convince everyone, that of

started strong before being marred by the affair of cheating admitted by Teheiura, from which other adventurers took advantage and which continues to cause agitation.

By adding the thirteen episodes of

and the fifteen issues of

, TF1 broadcast an episode of

for 28 weeks in 2021, or more than half of the year.

It's starting to do a lot.

Audiences, which show a beginning of weariness, are they the witness of the end of a cycle?

Time for a well-deserved break for the all-stars

The idea of ​​aligning, on the starting line, twenty of the best adventurers in history to celebrate

twentieth anniversary

made fans of the game shiver. Gathered at the beginning of July in the premises of TF1 to tackle this new season , the dozens of journalists attending the press conference are all ecstatic when they discover the first images.

Finally, after watching the episode, the hypothesis of secret negotiations concluded before the candidates even take the plane germinates in our minds. "There are adventurers who are known, recognized, who hang out all the time together and I did not see them making twisted blows", explained Cindy then, citing in particular the group formed by Claude, Teheiura and Laurent. Banco! Among the three men mentioned, two are on the posts this Tuesday evening.

In addition, several candidates mocked the behavior of some of their opponents because of social networks.

"If you try to eliminate me, maybe my community could take it badly", one would have said to Jade during the adventure.

Between past friendships and the weight of communities, perhaps it would be time to put aside the all-star seasons, tarnished by various elements outside the game itself.

At least, with anonymous participants, the question of secret pacts or the mobilization of a community of fans does not arise.

So let's leave the iconic players to rest for four or five years ...

Respect the "four S" of Freddy

Freddy, unfortunately eliminated by medical decision from the first day of this season, has said it several times: 

is survival, social, strategy and sport. Four elements that the public is delighted to discover each year but whose dosage could be reviewed. As an example, fourteen minutes were devoted to comfort in the episode of November 23. We saw Claude and Laurent there having a drink, making shampoo, taking a bath, getting a massage, eating a feast, going to sleep. While these meetings are sometimes an opportunity to talk about strategy, this will hardly ever have been the case this year.

And since it is important to us to show that we are not in bad faith, we could write the same lines for the next episode.

On November 30, fans were able to watch Jade, Laurent and Phil enjoy their comfort for twelve minutes.

And the strategy in all this?

The subject was not even mentioned ...

Meanwhile, no footage of the final jury's residence has been released, other than in the penultimate episode.

Perhaps we could have sweetened a few minutes of the candidates taking advantage of their comfort to show the reunion of the eliminated, sometimes better enemies, often at the origin of strong sequences?

Let the players play

We understand the desire to create reversals of the situation but everything that makes the show's salt does not hold the unforeseeable like Joseph who extinguishes the fire in

or the Machiavellian alliance of Laure and Maxine in

 ? No need to create multiple twists and turns when you hold a concept like that of

hands

. So three playoffs in a single season, wasn't that a bit too much?

Of course there was something positive about this anniversary edition, especially the Island of the Banished which allowed Ugo's resurrection on two occasions.

Special mention also to the hard-fought events, starting with the XXL obstacle course from the first episode.

But so that we can celebrate

40th anniversary

in 2041, we therefore expect a return to fundamentals with anonymous candidates and less remote-controlled twists.

And a return to only one season per year?

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