This text is a column with opinions that are the writer’s own and not Nyheter24’s.
At the outset, I just have to make one thing clear: The Challenge Sweden is the best thing that has happened to our Swedish reality world by a LONG time! It’s like Robinson and Big Brother had the perfect love child?
People can complain as much as they want – TV4, you did this well.
This program seriously has EVERYTHING? There are tough competitions, fighting spirit, personal trauma and a lot of emotion. At the same time that the participants live together and – they get to curl up. Which they happily do.
As the casting team really worked for the pay, this program has delivered from the first second. It even compensates that none of the host Pischa Strindsteds starter horns work.
This delicate program has been enjoyed in the same caliber as the support sausage you cut on the fly in town when you’re ravenously hungry, the first 50 cl Falcon on Friday, the perfect perfume that makes you smell like a billionaire’s wife or when your crush writes first.
But last Thursday night, for the first time, this program made me want to throw up my insides. And this because of a number of different events in the episode.
The immunity competition that took place involved (the girls separately and the boys separately) running to a pit to grab a stick with numbers and colors on it. The task then was to quickly get to the pit, get hold of the staff bastard, memorize the crap that was on it and then run back to pick a lock.
The way the competition was set up, it was written in the stars that you as a participant had to use violence to get hold of the staff. And yes, I am definitely including pushing, grabbing and other unpleasantness here.
But here it got much worse than that.
What happens is that several pieces target Fabian Thingwall, who has to receive several strong men against him – at the same time. The whole thing looks undeniably bloody unpleasant…
Soon after sheep Homayon Sytes a stranglehold on him so he can’t breathe. The whole thing has quickly gone from a tough competition to downright unpleasant.
As I myself am a competitive person of rank, I understand that you want to win at any cost. And sure, man against man, I think it’s cool bananas.
But when it’s several against one – in physical contexts, then it immediately feels wrong wrong wrong. And here it happened.
Fabian broke down and relived old middle school memories. People were getting hurt left and right and no one thought this was very nice. I understand that TV4 wanted good television – but it would have been much more reasonable to race man against man, because that will also be exciting.
The Challenge Sweden. Image source: TV4
What’s done is done, but I really hope that the guys who put Fabian through this get a moment to think and give him a fat apology.
I will rest my case and say that this program sucks. But here it went wrong.
But what did the girls do then?
Well, when the brides didn’t feel like pulling each other’s hair and buffooning around, they instead put the stick in plain sight for everyone to see. This without the channel’s knowledge as it felt it was better to pull a trick than to have to be pushed around and hurt each other in the sand pile.
Great.
Fabian if you’re reading this: Incredibly impressive how you managed to keep a cool head despite all the adversity in there, constantly talk with an ounce of humor, joke about the bizarre situations and show how strong you are both physically and mentally.
You may not have won the million, but you have our respect.