
Benoît has been single for 1,787 days. “Two more days and I would have taken the Bastille”he jokes in front of the other “broken hearts”. For the ninth season of this reality TV show broadcast by TFX, the show starts as usual with “the round table ceremony”where the candidates will deliver one by one, around a campfire, the reasons to which they attribute their celibacy, their difficult childhood and their ” problematic ” in love: “I am always abandoned”, “I multiply the conquests”, “Love has destroyed me”, “I am toxic”etc.
On the island of Lombok, Indonesia, six girls and six boys go “reconnect with themselves to finally be able to love themselves”promises the generic. To do this, they will have to “to get naked” facing the “love coach” Lucie Mariotti, cathode ray ersatz of the Lilac Fairy of Donkey skin. How? By speaking, in particular, to their inner child. “What does this little girl want?”asks the coach to a candidate in tears in front of a photo of herself at 6 years old. “Of love”answers the young woman. “Give it to him.” Self-esteem problem solved. Why bother with ten years of analysis?
With an average of 300,000 viewers per episode, “La Villa des cœurs brisés” is a compendium of tried and tested recipes: a pinch of “Koh Lanta” (the exotic, the isolation, the campfire), sprinkled with “Pascal, the big brother” (what’s better than breaking bricks to vent your anger) and “Angels” and other “Marseillais” (we “position ourselves” on a candidate to form a couple and we fight over the loved one between girls, if possible). A few clashes, languorous kisses, crocodile tears, silicone breasts, tattooed bearded men and that’s it. If they find love among the other candidates or the suitors they are presented with, their future is almost assured. A “goal” (star) couple is now a profession, its staging on the networks, a source of income.
Viper’s tongue trend
This year again, the majority of candidates are not unknown but professionals of reality TV, which always excels in recycling. The monster feeds on itself. Thus Vincent Queijo started his career, twelve years ago, in “Secret Story 7”. It was in the “Villa”, in 2019, that he met Rym, then a reality TV star in Spain. Two children later, we naturally find them in “Moms & Famous” (or in front of a failed risotto in “A Dinner Almost Perfect”). Their difficult separation brought them quite a few new subscribers.
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