Mel and Helene Blatt’s relationship reminds me of the one I have with my mum This series is a moving, tender, joyful portrait of parents getting to know their adult children – and their adult children really growing upIt was four years ago, on holiday in Morocco, when my mother declared with some pride that I was finally an adult.
I have travelled quite a bit with my mum, just us two. When I was a child I was very competitive about getting her on her own for “quality time” and I suppose I haven’t grown out of it: I think concentrated time with the people you love is important and it’s hard to find unless you prioritise it. Also, she does the driving.
It really is brilliant: a format so simple you can’t believe it hasn’t been done before. It is a thrilling competition, is regularly extremely funny, and offers a far more realistic depiction of travel than you get elsewhere on TV . The challenges that language, custom, food, and financial barriers present make very good unrehearsed TV, and the universality of compassion and generosity are uncomplicatedly heartening.
The celebrities are just about recognisable but unlikely to get any A-list treatment abroad, unlikely to have been totally ruined by fame, and their no-nonsense civvy teammates are marvellously entertaining. But the series has not been about life as a star, nor really about survival or compromise. It has, accidentally, become about how parents and their adult children accept each other.
Mel and Helene have the relationship that reminds me of the one I have with my mother . Helene made it clear at the outset that she felt Melanie would struggle away from luxury and the lifestyle that she has become accustomed to; Melanie, on the other hand, with much eyerolling and tutting, insists she is not spoilt, and has been out to prove to her mum she is independent and resourceful.
Or maybe you don’t grow up in one straight line. In last week’s penultimate episode, she changed a duvet cover and may as well have stuck her tongue out at her mother, she was so smug about it . But later, when they got separated at a German train station, it was Helene who was teary and worried, and Melanie playing the parent when they reunited, holding her close and convincing her all was now OK.As you get older, it is easy not to think about your relationship with your parents all that much.
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