The new 'Collapse', a program torn to pieces

On Saturday night, the Collapse The new era began with Jordi González at the helm. Ricard Ustrell appeared to hand over the baton, handing him a suitcase containing a button that started the program's machinery. González began by talking about himself and his return to public television: "9,125 nights later, in my language and on TV3, I bid you good night!" Collapse once again lived up to its name in that season premiere. Manu Guix introduced the band, warning that he was leaving the musicians there, but that he would leave later because he had a commitment to the Operación Triunfo Academy. Everyone has more important things to do than stay in the Collapse. González announced her friend Marta Torné as the program's godmother, a ritual disguised as important with no clear purpose. If anything has become clear to us from the Collapse It's that everyone brings their friends. And once again, we fell into the inbreeding of TV3, where the story revolves around themselves.

Collapse It's still being recorded, although it's harder to justify this this season. We have a Saturday night show that's recorded on Friday morning, with everything that implies for current affairs. The initial discussion (yes, another discussion on TV3's schedule) was outdated and had considerable doses of brother-in-lawism: clichés and repetitions of tired ideas. They talked about Donald Trump at the UN without referring to Netanyahu's significant speech that same morning from the same venue. They included statements that claimed to be from that week, but were actually from September 12, two weeks earlier. Jordi González connected with correspondent Lídia Heredia with the spontaneous alacrity of a live broadcast, but the recording was clumsily inserted, revealing that it was recorded. Collapse It's a piecemeal, poorly plotted, unpolished program. Jordi González is much more natural, but he seems tired, and at times, the program felt like it was dragging on his feet. The editing was botched. It seemed as if guest Valeria Vega entered the set, and it was Torné who appeared sitting on the sofa. Between sections, there was a difference in volume, and even González's energy and appearance were lacking in continuity. From the interview with Dr. Sans Segarra, we didn't fully understand why these disquisitions about death were so risky. The conversation provoked more perplexity than curiosity. The world of the guests seemed alien to us and indifferent. The first program was bland, very flat, and nothing excited us. Nothing marked a new direction or enticed viewers to stay on TV3 on Saturday nights instead of migrating to the platforms.

At the end of the show, the audience behind Jordi González was disheartening. They seemed somewhere between stunned and bored. That final table at 1:00 a.m. finished off the remaining viewers. A grotesque closing party featuring a video from the golden minute of television that spoke of rape. That button Ustrell said should be pushed at the beginning needs a lot of fine-tuning.