MomenTVs Secret Story Says Enough: "Limits Have Been Overstepped"
Television Secret Story gives the chime: the expiation of Telecinco
Rafa
is the winner of
Secret Story
.
He was the winner of
Secret Story
almost since the doors of the
reality show
opened and last night the audience made it a reality with his votes.
There were no surprises, there was no tongo, there was no bombshell:
Rafa, winner
, period.
So far the Secret Story
edition of
anonymous has come and now it's time to take stock, it's time to do self-criticism and it's time to find out what has happened to an edition that the public had been asking
Telecinco
for a long time and that has become the great fiasco of this season .
Perhaps one of the reasons, among many others, was what was the surprise of the night, what
Rafa himself
revealed, which
Carlos Sobera
wanted to quickly cut, which ended up completely sinking
Secret Story
.
Secret Story
had everything to work.
It has had an exceptional casting, with unknown and new profiles, with real players, with anonymous people dedicated to living the experience simply for living it without any further intention.
But a casting is not enough to raise a
reality show
whose first mistake was not letting the viewer breathe.
It was finishing the celebrity edition of
Secret Story
, with a backpack more than full of controversies, and starting the
Secret Story
edition of anonymous people.
Telecinco
does not seem to understand that the viewer gets tired, that the viewer is exhausted, that no matter how much they wanted anonymous
reality
shows and no matter how good the casting was, they have to take a break.
We are going to see the confirmation of this with
Survivors
.
How much audience is
Survivors
going to mark ?
I don't know if it will be historic, but it will lift the crisis that
Telecinco
is going through , for sure.
Why?
Because
Survivors
gives a break, because
Survivors
is an edition every season, because
Survivors
does not burden the viewer with one edition after another, because Survivors creates desire, impatience, need... The mistake, not learning from past failures.
What happened to
Secret Story
and the low audience data that it has registered, in addition to other reasons, has had a very clear reason, a jaded viewer.
I am not talking about the faithful follower of
reality
shows, but about the viewer who sits in his chair at night and chooses to watch
Secret Story
rather than a soap opera or a series without then living constantly aware of what is happening in the house.
That spectator gets tired, exhausted and it is the one who does not have a hard time taking control and saying 'this again?
Do not'.
Change the channel and there is no
reality
anymore .
It happened with The Island of Temptations, it happened whenever
Telecinco
made the decision to burden the viewer with the same thing.
And that the anonymous edition of
Secret Story
started well.
Telecinco
and the producer of
Secret Story
, Zeppelin, learned from the failures of the famous edition.
They changed the voting system and left behind for the first time in the history of a
reality show
the votes by telephone and payment.
They opened voting on the web so that the results would be the real feeling of the audience and not just those who paid indecent amounts for their friend, their boyfriend, their family member to win.
Reality
fans
they were happy and content, but they were wrong again.
The 'bots' took over the votes and one by one they charged the contestants who gave the most games in the house.
The fact that you could vote as many times as you wanted with a simple "clean history" turned that popular sentiment around.
Those who filled the thing for better or for worse were falling and the so-called "furniture" was left, those that go through the
reality show
without pain or glory, those that do not give game, those that with seeing them once you have already seen them all .
The collapse of Secret Story
You just have to see the number of votes last night for a
reality show
with very low audience data.
Carlos Sobera
said
at the beginning of the
Secret Story
finale gala that history was being made by being the most voted finale in the history of a
reality show
with 7 million votes.
Let's see, for God and for the Virgin, 7 million for a
reality show
that has had an average of 12.3% audience share,
1,207,000 viewers
?
There is the proof that free voting via the web must be the real reflection of the majority, but that they are not.
Almost always, because in the case of making
Rafa
the winner of
Secret Story
there are no 'bots' that could have done it.
Rafa has been a fair and deserved winner of
Secret Story
without being the ideal profile to win.
However,
Rafa
's victory also shows that what the viewer is looking for is something different.
The audience is tired of always seeing the same faces, the same profiles, the same personalities, all cut from the same cloth.
The pattern that until recently served and generated an audience, but no longer.
Rafa
was out of the ordinary and, furthermore, he was always the most real, the most sincere, the most like you and me, the one who was least aware of whether the camera focused on him, of if he did this or that he would be seen more or less.
Rafa
went to enjoy, to live
Secret Story
really and it was that naturalness, along with an overwhelming personality, which have made him the winner of
Secret Story
by a landslide and without generating a hint of doubt.
Secret Story
needed a winner like that, the pity is that it will be a forgotten winner, a winner who will go unnoticed through the history of
reality shows
.
Of course it's not his fault.
I don't want to imagine what
Secret Story
would have been like without
Rafa
until the final.
The torpor.
Rafa
is a clear example of the turn that Zeppelin wanted to give to
Secret Story
.
New faces, starting with the presenters -
Carlos Sobera
,
Toñi Moreno
and
Sandra Barneda
- and continuing with the collaborators -
Mario Vaquerizo
or
Eduardo Navarrete
-.
Rafe
It is the example of that transparency that
Secret Story
wanted to establish in its anonymous edition, but that was only a mere intention.
The presenters have shown during the 13 installments of Anonymous
Secret Story
that they were very aware of the opinions of the viewers, of what was moving on Twitter, of what the followers were claiming.
In fact, throughout these weeks, there have been many times that
Toñi Moreno
or
Carlos Sobera
addressed the public aware of what they were asking for or of what could be involved with certain decisions.
Same last night.
Secret Story
wanted to be more transparent, wanted to show that he cared what his audience thought, but the intentions did not last long.
Last night it was the contestants themselves, including the winner himself,
Rafa
, who left
Secret Story
with their ass in the air and at the feet of the horses .
The suspicions that viewers have been denouncing throughout the
reality show
were confirmed last night by
Nissy
,
Adrián
and
Rafa
himself .
Look,
Carlos Sobera
tried to stop it and tried to cut it, but it was impossible.
First it was
Adrián
, third classified in the final of
Secret Story
, the one that confirmed the suspicions we all had about
Nissy
's expulsion .
Nissy
was voted out in a nomination unprecedented in
reality
television history .
After weeks and weeks of monumental fights between
Nissy
and a good part of the house, one Sunday,
Secret Story
decided to place her on the list of nominees.
The following Thursday she was expelled.
Suspicions that
Secret Story
had forced her nomination and then her expulsion fell on
Secret Story
heavily.
Contestants uncover Secret Story
Last night
Adrián
confirmed what the spectators already denounced at that time.
When Adrián arrived on the set after proclaiming himself third finalist, the confrontation with
Nissy
was almost immediate.
He had already said it in the video that Secret Story
showed of the
three finalists reviewing their contest.
Adrian's worst moments on
Secret Story
were with
Nissy
.
As expected, the fight between the two of them was not long in coming.
Carlos Sobera
tried to stop him, but the desire they have for each other prevented him.
In a crossroads of accusations,
Nissy
told
Adrián
that the play had gone wrong and that he had been third, "which hurts a lot."
Adrián responded and released what
Secret Story
wanted to hide at the time: "Do you know when that was? After six people and a psychologist had to come, because it was unbearable to be with you and that's why they expelled you on Sunday. kicked out the show!"
Carlos Sobera
was quick and cut quickly, stating that the program "didn't take out" anyone, but what was said was said.
Secret Story
did not want
Nissy
's relationship with her companions, and vice versa, to cause any puddle that could not be gotten out of later, as has happened in other
reality shows
.
So, according to Adrián,
Nissy
was killed before things could get any worse.
First caught and in the final.
What else could end up finishing off Secret Story?
Well, surprisingly, the winner of Secret Story himself, Rafa.
It was he who, like
Adrián
, confirmed another of the shadows that have been hovering over
Secret Story ,
Adrián
's aggressiveness
.
It was no secret that something had happened to Adrián during his contest, because in one of the galas it was
Carlos Sobera
who addressed the audience to warn that the program could censor images that did not contribute anything, according to the program, or that could do unnecessary damage.
The images were none other than Adrián mad, beating the furniture of the house with wood.
The staunch followers of the program, those of the 24 hours -although the 24 hours is also when
Secret Story
wants-, were the ones who discovered that something had happened.
Suddenly, a broken piece of furniture and injured knuckles,
Adrián
's .
Secret Story
said
nothing, nothing was seen, but if there is something that reality shows have, it is their followers.
Nothing gets away from them and they don't let anyone get away.
Until
Rafa
arrived , until he sat down on the set, until he ran into
Adrián
and discovered the cake, leaving the show that was going to be declared the winner a few minutes later with its ass in the air.
"They reached an extreme situation kicking things and becoming aggressive,"
Rafa
released without being aware that what he had just said was going to end up sinking
Secret Story
.
What was missing.
I'll play devil's advocate and try to understand why
Secret Story
hid those scenes from
Adrián
.
I want to think that it was for no other reason than to protect him and that he tried without the audience being aware of channeling that aggressiveness.
But then we're not talking about a 24-hour
reality show
, we're talking about a staged show where you only see what the show wants you to see.
If they created a nomination for
Nissy
and expelled her because of the tension she was generating in the house, why not with
Adrián
?
They were able to do the same thing without having to show those images, which, indeed, would have been a difficult blow for him to overcome.
But yes with
Nissy
The nomination and his expulsion were removed from the sleeve, why didn't they do the same with
Adrián
?
That is what bursts, what exhausts, what tires the audience, that the same mistakes continue to be made, even if it is done with more nocturnality and treachery than before.
Do we now understand the bad audience data for
Secret Story
?
Except in gala 0 and in another gala,
Secret Story
has marked data below the average of
Mediaset
itself .
For a
reality show
and on Telecinco this is terrible.
It is true that its predecessor, the
famous
Secret Story that
Luca Onestini
won , is not that it did the impressive data of other editions or other
realities
, but nothing to do with the crisis of
anonymous
Secret Story .
I insist, this edition of
Secret Story
has done many things well, from recovering the anonymous, changing the voting format, new faces, and even the interest of the presenters in what the audience says.
But mistakes have been made, not all by
Secret Story
, but by the network as well.
That
Secret Story
serves to discover what is happening, to start over or not to do it again.
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