Loles León's drama

When a program starts with the presenter shouting at the viewers at home as if they couldn't hear, you already suspect that the show won't be very successful. That's what happened last Sunday with Zero dramas, the new talk show on La 2 hosted by Loles León. Since the premiere coincided with Women's Day and the format had a feminist focus, the initial panel already caused astonishment by discovering Santiago Segura sitting there. The actor and director of Torrente developed a philo-feminist discourse that forced you to waste large doses of indulgence to bear it. The other guests were content creator Marina Rivers, model Alba Carrillo, and actress Petra Martínez. The synergies of cronyism were evident. The program reproduced a easily recognizable pattern of formats that define themselves as feminist, but are designed and directed by men: the editorial label ends up being a victim of caricature and simplification. From guests chosen according to a criterion of representation by age to a discourse loaded with clichés and what they call humorous freshness. That is, a feminism that is limited to talking about what is traditionally associated with femininity and doing so in a fun tone. Aesthetic pressure, motherhood, menopause, or machismo were a deluge of originality and innovation. Loles León took the opportunity to deny the audience that she had undergone a vaginoplasty, as if the news had caused some kind of national tremor. Now that we know that her vagina is in its original state, we can continue with our lives more calmly. The script was structured in supposedly provocative questions, with interrogations as disconcerting as ¿Los machirulos son tan machos que necesitan someter a las mujeres?”. They announced it as "the bombshell question" perhaps because it was so absurd that it made your head explode: they asked if machismo acted in a macho way. A reductionist and meaningless tautology that perhaps they thought worked as a television hook, but which evidenced the insubstantiality of the content. Fragments of videos from the masclosfera were included from the most unnecessary morbidity, and contests were proposed, such as guessing which beauty creams were authentic and which were fake, such as a balm made with whale semen. Loles León anticipated the advice column with a sexologist warning that it would be "hot, hot", as if we had to get in tune with the repertoire of "oohs" and "aahs" from the audience in the stands. They intended to break taboos on a subject on which we are already becoming desensitized. The worst, that puritanical preliminary of "¿Es normal que...?” where everyone expects to be told yes. Zero dramas was a rushed and terribly edited format. Structurally fragile, with a chaotic approach, very superficial, full of clichés and stereotypes. One drama was indeed present: that of current television, more based on inertia and insubstantiality than on the duty to be interesting.