After the Mercè fireworks, TV3 premiered a new absurdity: BestialThe program's promos were already setting off alarm bells about yet another grotesque and incomprehensible decision by public television. And, painfully, we confirmed it on Sunday. Bestial It's a talk and music show where both the host and the guests have to exercise their arms and legs: dance, stimulate the audience, celebrate some kind of comment or pretend to meditate... In the middle of the set there is a button, a sort of dynamic device that is supposed to be pressed to make "beastly" things happen on the show. The resource was quickly forgotten, revealing the enormous nonsense that it really was.
The program marks the return of Bibiana Ballbé to TV3, which has gone from that apparent delicacy of Silence from its beginnings to the unbearable noise of the Bestial.
From the La Paloma room, the presenter is in a state of overexcitement and fear, to which she ends up falling victim. Exaggerated laughter and hyperreactivity to any absurd response provoke stupor. The criteria used in choosing the guests generates perplexity. You don't understand the interest they arouse, nor the reason why they are there. It's as if the presenter needs to strengthen her network of personal ties and influence by inviting celebrities she connects with through Instagram. In fact, the aesthetic and artificial essence of this social network transcends the screen. Bibiana Ballbé's questions couldn't be more trivial; no guest has an interesting speech or the opportunity to develop one. The viewer feels completely alienated from this kind of pretentious party.
Bestial It's the festival of the most absurd emptiness. It's a terribly sterile program, which seems designed only to contribute to the presenter's self-esteem and empowerment. We don't see a professional rowing in favor of a solid, cultural idea, with a wealth of content. We see a television station putting itself at the service of a disturbing egocentrism. In fact, the logo of Bestial, with two B's facing each other that correspond to the presenter's initials. In Bestial, everything is narratively overblown. Ballbé is constantly selling smoke. Because the entire program is a factory of false emotion. A sterile vindication of the most absurd fun. To make way for a performance by The Tyets, he announces: "Something brutal, spectacular, and historic is about to happen!" He calls out to the presenter, who from the start seems hoarse, the result of an excitement that doesn't even let her breathe properly. And what we saw next was a simple and inconsequential performance on stage.
There is a tragic element: TV3 has programmed Bestial in the Sunday night slot occupied by the 30 minutes, since the news program doesn't return until October 26. It's an attack on prestige and public service in favor of a presentation of emptiness, aesthetics, and frivolity. It's proof of bad television taste and the perfect allegory of the resounding degeneration that TV3 is experiencing.
