This bizarre type of therapy seems traumatizing to me
When it comes to reality TV, sometimes you just crave a ‘snack’. Not always something like those extremely long Robinson episodes, but something you can enjoy watching in between, a kind of ‘pick me up’ before you continue with your life. That’s exactly what ‘Tamara & Maria’s Therapy Trip’ is for me. So, I’d like to update you on the fourth episode of this somewhat strange group of people who follow odd therapies together in Ibiza. That these celebrities are all pleasantly disturbed is immediately confirmed by Farja when he calls Walter a weirdo. And Walter really appreciates that, especially that Farja makes it so openly discussable. Then Maria and Tamara stroll in with instruments. It doesn’t seem forced at all, you know. It makes perfect sense to walk through the garden with a kind of banjo and a gong. Maybe they have shaken their fellow travelers awake this week, but unfortunately, we didn’t get to see that.
Today the group visits a medium, and Ayoub and Jacobien would prefer to turn back immediately. For them, it has to do with faith. They believe that the paths are already mapped out by God, and you shouldn’t interfere with that. So, they are skipped, but the rest of the group is really hoping to gain some clarity from this fantastic medium. Because the medium looks right through them. She tells Walter that she sees he is very open to energies and that he is not sensitive to judgments. Of course, we couldn’t see that in ‘B&B Vol Liefde’. Yes, this is sarcastic. The medium gets the feeling that Jaimie has a son. Again good. Her son will help his father, and Jaimie is quite shocked by this because it can be interpreted quite broadly. Let’s hope he helps him gain insights. And don’t get me wrong, I am very open to all kinds of spiritual matters. But these are indeed easy guesses that literally anyone who has ever watched TV could have shouted. Maria receives the dreadful news that she will not become a multimillionaire, and through her dramatic reaction to this, we see how the medium falls out of her role: ‘At least you won’t be left without money,’ she says, rolling her eyes.
It seems like Maria has to undergo some sort of punishment for that. And just like with ‘Special Forces’, if one person makes a mistake, the whole group suffers. And that’s why they now have to be buried alive. Supposedly this is also a kind of therapy, to gain certain insights, but it seems more traumatizing than therapeutic to me. Ayoub and Jacobien also don’t want to participate in this, because you shouldn’t want to joke about death. I can actually agree with that. Ultimately, it is especially therapeutic for Maria; she stands crying by the coffin where Tamara lies, because she realizes how afraid she is of losing her. Tamara herself then climbs out of the coffin satisfied, and I am once again left astonished on the couch while I watch the preview for next week: what have I actually been watching? Next time I’ll make sure to order a McDonald’s meal to go with it: combining fast food in your body with fast food for your mind. This is a real guilty pleasure.
