Few communicators remain like Jorge Javier Vázquez, and that is something that in certain corners there in Fuencarral perhaps they have not been able to see. He is quick mentally, he has an answer for everything and every time he comments on something, it becomes the topic of the day.
Thus, the Catalan journalist is back in the news for another day, after becoming the protagonist of the presentation of the President of the Government’s new book; for his honest criticism of the docuseries Pombo, the new reality show from the family of influencer María Pombo.
The communicator has seen the new series that tells the experiences of one of the best-known families on social networks and, as is usual for him, he has not left anything out. Mordacious and with the style that characterizes him, Jorge Javier Vázquez analyzes the series in his new blog for the magazine Lecturas, with which he has truly been “scaly.”
“In short, I can say that I have seen more life in a funeral home than in this reality show. It’s like watching a plant grow. Which I find as disturbing as it is attractive,” says the man who owned the Sálvame farmhouse.
The one from Badalona compares the Pombo family reality show with one of those French films “in which nothing happens because the important thing is what doesn’t happen” or what is intuited. This constant bragging about his model life makes him think that “there are tomatoes in the family.”
Among others, the communicator is convinced that the relationship between the three sisters -Marta, Lucía and María- is not as idyllic as it might seem. “There is a latent rivalry between them that, no matter how much they try to hide, comes to light in several sequences,” writes Jorge Javier, who is convinced that they love each other, “but they watch each other out of the corner of their eyes.”
“They judge each other, criticize each other and they must have anthological bits,” says the communicator. Even so, none are shown, which makes it flaky, with “pasteboard-mâché emotions.”
Vázquez calls the Pombo sisters hermetic, of being more concerned with maintaining their image as “good people” than showing themselves as they are. He goes further, pointing out that none of them stand out precisely “for their friendliness.” “They don’t stand out for anything, that’s the miracle,” says the collaborator.
At the moment, reviews of Pombo are being positive, with some exceptions. The journalist Ángeles Caballero criticized the series with irony, agreeing with other professionals about the “disconnection” and superficiality of the family in their daily lives: “If María Pombo were a musician, she would be the elevator’s background music. And yet here we are, talking about her”.
