TV review ‘Viewing figure nachtmare’: After slap in his face, this Jesus no longer got up

His face changed shape in slow motion. Nose, lips, cheeks – for fractions of a second they stretched and vibrated like gelatin pudding, as if they forgot for a short time which body part they had to be. Jesus Gaspar Diaz had just been beaten in his face-very hard, patswith the flat hand. Voluntary, though; Although there was little to see of his good sense on the slow motion images. When his face looked like a face again, Jesus’s eyes rolled up and his body dropped.

He blindly fell back, right into the arms of two men dressed in black who had to see that no one was hit directly to the hereafter. They put him neatly on the floor while the referee started counting to sixty. If Jesus could recover within that minute, he was put on. Then he was allowed to give a blow to the tattooed guy who had just shipped him down. But it was not allowed: very different from his most famous namesake, Jesus did not succeed in getting up again.

On Friday evening I didn’t know that all this was going on on Veronica. I didn’t know that there was such a thing as one Power limp-championship. I only found out on Saturday afternoon, via the Instagram account of viewing figer Tina Nijkamp. Like more often, she sought the heaviest terms to describe the lowest scores. For Power limp She came up with, among other things, ‘totally crashed’, ‘will no longer be good’ and ‘the largest viewing figure mare of the evening and 2025 so far’. I found that so sad that I decided to look back the championship. That was another pair of eyes.

From that point it would only be more sad, because the aforementioned couple of eyes saw how four sets of large men hit each other hard in a room in Las Vegas, until one of the two was no longer approachable. Then the other person got a champion belt cut, which was accompanied by roar and waving with fists. Sometimes you gained a view of the audience: people who grinned back in their seats, possibly with a phone at hand. Together they may have filled a third of the room. Many seats had remained empty. If the blow was hard enough, the people who were to show up their mouths and eyes very far open. Their faces reminded me of the only time I gave someone a chat against his cheek and his mouth and eyes of surprise formed three perfect circles (I am still sorry, Karel). But we were primary school children at the time. These were adult people.

God

In a studio in the Netherlands, two more adult men commented on the competition: presenter Mark Schaaf and former kick boxer Remy Bonjasky. They did not get much further than repeating things that the Power Slappers had said in their proposal videos. Jesus lived with his mother in a small house in a slum and hoped to earn the necessary money with his participation to move to a finer place together. His opponent called himself Ko Chris, had a woman and five sons and considered the chance that God had created this sport especially for him. « A nice contradiction, » found Schaaf and Bonjasky. « A life -threatening father against someone fighting for his mother. » Yes, they found that very nice to see.

When I had had enough of looking back, I switched to fun looking ahead and I took the entire season Chateau Promenade (NTR) by. Also Promenade struggled more than once with low viewing figures. Now Henry van Loon philosophized in a French forest: « Suppose you have a television program – but nobody watches it. Has it been on TV? » In the case of Promenade I would say: ‘Yes’. But in the case of Power limp… well, then I tend to ‘no’.

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