The Mole 2024: who he is, who won and why he deserves another chance

It’s since when The Mole returned to the air that the audience was divided into two factions: those who praised the cross-media experiment that gave life to a 2.0 edition of the reality show and those who watched with immediate nostalgia the live edition conducted 16 years ago from Paola Peregoconvinced that that magic would never return. For us, as often happens, the truth lies in the middle, because this is true Mole It had some flaws, but it is equally clear that a program of this type was missing on our television. Through physical tests halfway between tests of courage Hi Darwin And Beijing Express and game dynamics that involved the spectators themselves, called to search for all possible clues via the Internet, The Mole she managed to package a well done show and, above all, with a much stronger cast than that of Big Brother but also of the latest editions ofIsland of the Famous.

The final result – Lucilla Agosti as the moleeven though many spectators had understood it from the first rehearsal, and Alessandro Egger winner, because he managed to correctly answer the greatest number of questions regarding the alleged identity of the group’s saboteur – he was consistent with the path undertaken and with the narrative climax which, over the course of the episodes, gave rise to dynamics that perhaps, in a different setting like the summer, when the schedule dries up, would have shone as they deserved. Together with the added value represented by competitors such as Veronica Peparini And Marina La Rosaalready managed to resurrect a recent edition of the Islandand so on a structure far from the most extreme and harmful tendencies of trash for the benefit of a more balanced but no less fun formula, The Mole 2024 he tried to propose something new although, unfortunately, it did not achieve the success it deserved.

As we know, Mediaset has chosen to combine the last two episodes into one to make up for the problem of low ratings achieved in previous weeks, but it’s clear that the program didn’t deserve it, especially because it is clear that, in this case, work on the cast and writing has been done, and not bad at all. Perhaps the problem, and we had already written about it after the first episode, could be represented by a management, that of Diletta Leotta, a little too cold and institutional, perfect for more standardized settings – such as an awards ceremony – but a little less so for a genre like reality, which essentially needs someone with a certain attitude and a certain stage personality. The fault, however, is not Leotta’s, who found herself moving overnight from a protected platform like Dazn to the Coliseum of Canale 5 prime time, but who thought of making her land on the generalist by entrusting her with such a complex project without first letting her grow as she deserved. Meanwhile, due to errors like these – why, for example, not wait for the Big Brother before sending it? – it is likely that The Mole His journey will end here forever, and we are truly sorry. Because we are absolutely convinced that he deserved another chance.