Since the start of the hectic reality show Survivor Quebec from Noovo, it’s really good, campers from Get me out of here! at TVA no longer inspire any pity. Zero bad a bar, but no chocolate, because it would have melted, yes.
They sleep on wooden beds with mattresses, they have a small sink with running water and they often receive rewards such as a barbecue, a stuffed animal (Pépé the monkey!), Ritz cookies, a poké bowl, Salvatoré pizza (which sponsors all the reality shows in Quebec, it seems) or Coca-Cola.
What are they complaining about, lord of the savannah?
Get me out of here!it’s the Club Med of the Maldives Islands in comparison with Survivor Quebec, where the brave live only on coconuts and lukewarm water. And white rice, on feast days.
The members of the two tribes sleep directly on the sand of their island or on a homemade mattress woven from palm leaves. In Sunday evening’s episode, downpours drenched the two – unprotected – camps of Tiyaga and Kalooban, cutting short their already restless nights.
The sensational arrival of Survivor on our screens will certainly force the team to Get me out of here! to raise the quality and level of the challenges it will submit to its stars in the second season. Between you and me, measuring water in an aquarium or evaluating the length of a vine at Dollarama, it’s peak-peak compared to the giant obstacle games of Survivor and its superb tropical-rustic decor.
Now that we’ve seen the big mazes and puzzles of Survivor, Get me out of here! can no longer weigh competitors coffee beans or ask them to blind-count fish. Too simple, too flat.
On Sunday evening, the contrast in production value between Get me out of here! And Survivor was banging loudly in our televisions. While the amalgamated orange team slid on a “giant wet banana,” which appeared to have been unrolled on a campsite in Lanaudière, the survivors of Noovo piled up on huge structures erected in the open turquoise sea.
Also, Get me out of here! has given more priority to mutual aid, humor and camaraderie for the past few weeks. We do not feel that the campers have the knife between their teeth to win this bush competition, which ends up becoming repetitive. In the test of guts and brains, ex-skater Marianne St-Gelais gave up very (too?) quickly. It was disappointing.
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Marianne St-Gelais in Get me out of here!
TVA’s adventure reality show focuses on the fun aspect of this wild camping in Costa Rica, and the interventions of the two animators, Alexandre Barrette and Jean-Philippe Dion, are part of this comico-empathetic current.
At the end of the event, the two co-pilots even descended the slippery slope of the “Slip’N Slide” to end up in a game of human bowling. It was very funny, I admit.
The greatest strength of Get me out of here!, which ends on May 14, remains its participants, who are vulnerable, funny and endearing. Who would have thought that Nathalie Simard, the revelation of this first chapter, would make such a sensational return to TV? Also liked to discover the chef Jean-Michel Leblond, the actress Livia Martin, the dancer Rahmane Belkebiche and the good Dr Francois Marquess.
AT Survivor, no room for fun, and it’s perfect like that. The competition is fierce and no one is messing around. Players scratch, dig, plot, run, swim and fight to keep their flame from going out at the evening tips.
The compact episodes contain many reversals, including a surprise elimination at Kalooban on Sunday, which the main interested party had not seen coming. Whoops. Already five people have been ousted in two weeks, no time to fool around, it rolls like a gigantic ball on an obstacle course.
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Patrice Belanger
In command of Survivor, it seems that Patrice Bélanger swallowed up the 44 seasons of the American version. He knows all the subtleties of the game and does not hesitate to shoot arrows at overconfident tribes. He describes the trials as a René Lecavalier of the Filipino jungle. And he keeps an arm’s length from the candidates, which is necessary for Survivor.
Now, who will succeed in breaking the duo of the two “brothers” – or the two gurus – Christophe and Jean Junior of the Tiyaga tribe? No longer able to see them behaving like masters of the universe. Get them out of there, really.
Still among the yellows, I like Sandrine and Marika and I hope that Joël and Johannie, the excluded from the majority alliance, will not go through the wringer controlled by the omniscient JJ, whose hockey metaphors gass us as much as a tear gas canister in a demonstration. Also, what does Kimberly do with her days? We never see him in the episodes, never, never.
On Kalooban’s side, Denis, Karine and Maryse prove to be fierce competitors, while Nicolas and Justine have targets drawn behind their backs.
A word to the production, in closing. Can you stop spoiling the turn of events in the short segments inserted before commercial breaks? It’s painful and annoying. Like eating white rice with shell utensils.