The new season of ‘Thirties’: how much dullness can a person endure before he rots in the superficiality of existence?

For whom the script of Thirtysomethings as a blueprint of life, the great emptiness soon awaits. You will end a day behind a desk at the dining table with a meaningless conversation about the food that one person made for the other. In Sami’s case: leek, or so he guesses, with unfried fish.

After six episodes of the new season of Thirtysomethings – the second with the current cast – I feel like I’m on a local train that’s hurtling through a landscape in which nothing seems to change. How much dullness can a person endure before he rots in the superficiality of existence?

From a series that last year was the millennial interpretation of a Greek tragedy, I expected at least one plot twist after six times twenty minutes. But no, it took Sami three episodes to tell his grandmother that he was moving in with his love.

It seems like the writers of Thirtysomethings have written this new season while asleep. After it became clear a year ago around the same period that Jonas had been cheating on his girlfriend Laura for years with his best friend Ruben – and he still bought a house with her – Laura’s suspicion determines the tone of the excruciatingly slow series now that the couple is together again .

As a result, it appears half the cast was briefed to play the beaten dog. Sami is very good at imitating a depressed puppy. Jonas is a creditable second. And hopefully Laura’s dad’s chin isn’t too bad after dealing with one all the time mouth had to shuffle around to the ground.

At one point there was enthusiasm, because the Chiro foreign camp was on the verge of collapse. In the WhatsApp group of the friends – almost all of them avid cyclists – plans were then made for a “benefit” (hahaha!). In the meantime, Sami finally moved in with his sweetheart, Marvin and Nele officially became a couple after much bickering, Nele bought service vouchers for her father and the camera person took a photo of a penis print in bib shorts.

For the sake of clarity, I have not ranked the events from exciting to most exciting. Assuming that the thirties really ripple like that for some people, can’t we start up crowdfunding for those poor souls? Nowadays we like to raise money. Then it should also work out for the characters Thirtysomethings a visit to the set of At home to sponsor them, so that they at least experience something worth mentioning.

It must be a tactic – therefore not a good one – to first lull the viewer to sleep and then deliver absurd storylines. Jonas and Laura will get married, have a child, and while Laura is in childbirth, Jonas will end up with Ruben in the maternity toilets, where Laura’s sister will catch the bastards, after which Jonas will spend another full season with a dejected look. look will walk around.

In the past I mentioned Thirtysomethings the TV chip shop: bad for your health, but irresistible. Now I have contracted salmonella in the same shack. I’m kicking off for a bit.

The entire new season of Thirtysomethings can be viewed on VRT MAX and will be broadcast later on VRT 1.