The fourth installment of “The least expected day” continues with the sincere tone but suffers from morbidity
Not all the mountains are oregano and not all seasons can offer the anger of Marc Soler, the fright of Miguel Ángel López or the very famous day of La Covatilla to make the glass of the morbidity of “The least expected day” overflow.
What curiously works best for the team, a dose of tranquility, although with nuances, is worse for a product that I hope will continue for many yearsat least for the enjoyment of cycling fans.
The fourth season of “The least thought day” is much more cycling, more sporty, without going so much personally and yes on the road, something that I like, but I don’t know if it will attract so much out of the hard core of fans , more in an environment in which the “insides” are the order of the day.
There are aspects that I still like, such as the fact that it is a canned and filtered production but also sincere.
That sincerity, which was key in previous seasons to the point of uncovering certain embarrassments, is the key on which everything revolves, but the narrative force that gives it a well-known fact like the ones we recounted in the first line is difficult to maintain without these facts. .
As we have written in previous pieces, the thing is structured around three names, the team’s sporting references, Van Vleuten’s great year, Valverde’s farewell and the recovery of Enric who, if you allow us the cheap joke, goes from less to more .
Then the rest of the characters dance around.
Chente is a star, but less, Lastras appears little, Patxi Vila doesn’t look so good -I know that he no longer directs the team like last year- and Iván Velasco wins integers.
Also Dr. Ibarguren has a certain focuscontroversial figure, whose main roles consist of curing Gregor Mühlberger and co-piloting Chente.
If an element could generate morbidity it was the theme of the pointsto the extreme of having very important quotas during the serial, almost always with the guiding thread of Eusebio Unzúe continually doing the old lady’s account, valuing any position that contributed to salvation
In various interventions the word “panic” is pronounced.
I know that among so many hours of images, you have to prioritize and this entails certain “sacrifices.”
It saddens me to see so little Alex Aranburu and Iván García Cortinarequired to score points in the alternative calendar, also leaves me with a strange taste having focused the entire female side on Van Vleuten, with the girls there, as testimonials at Valverde’s farewell party.
These are things that happen and little can be done, you have to cut corners and prioritize, in any case, a good note, once again, for a product that has managed to arrive at the exact moment, when the pandemic struck, and be a pioneer in giving a little light on a sport that many people are not aware of what it moves and implies.
Imagen: Unipublic / Sprint Cycling Agency
