Melodifestivalen 2026: Deltävling One (Linköping)

[ButterTart]

I can only assume this is sidesplittingingly hilarious if you understand Swedish.

Well, it was feature-length so it needed to have something about it.

 

[ButterTart]

YES JUNIOR!!!

 

[VoR]

How is this big post-show reveal supposed to work now that it's entirely obvious Jacqline is in third?

 

[Soldi]

Oh thank god for that

 

[win_the_game]

Well this voting format makes for truly exciting television

 

[VoR]

Thank God for that. I still have finalen tickets I need to flog, and I could see my money trickling away if the first two qualifiers ended up being GRECZULA and NOLL2.

 

[win_the_game]

Why has they kept this piss-poor format of a reprise?

 

[Agneeta]

Win the game isn't enjoying himself. Doesn't like to mention it though.

 

[ButterTart]

I mean, I know it's not the actual staging but you'd think someone could have told them which camera they were supposed to be on.

 

[Sheena]

Thank God for that. I still have finalen tickets I need to flog, and I could see my money trickling away if the first two qualifiers ended up being GRECZULA and NOLL2.

STILL TEMPTED

 

[Tisch]

This format making it look like A*Teens win the whole thing while Grezcula has won chimney sweeper of the day award. Has NO-ONE told Swedish glasses lesbian this?

 

[Sheena]

Also, Mr Sheena:

“It wasn’t like that year when Charlotte PERRELLI made the final”

 

[VoR]

Can you feel the tension?

 

[ButterTart]

Indra getting absolutely no pop from the audience whenever her name is mentioned. Why does Sweden hate her?

 

[VoR]

This really is staggeringly terrible television. It's a battle for third, WHO CARES?

 

[Agneeta]

What's happening?

 

[D5K]

So I assume SVT1 has cut away to something more interesting and it’s just us on SVT Play who have this wet blanket of an anticlimax

 

[ButterTart]

What's happening?

They've accidentally done the results everyone cares about first and now they're making a huge deal of who's playing for bronze.

 

[Sheena]

This is APPALLING!

 

[ButterTart]

How can they possibly think this is more exciting than GLOBEN OR BUST?

 

[D5K]

There’s no way this format can last all five heats

 

[Lucille]

Can someone summarise for those of us who knew this was going to be a nasty bag of turds?

 

[Tisch]

And now let's interview all these JADED people who might be through but probably not.

I feel like the show's ended and we're watching awkward during the ad break footage

 

[ButterTart]

Also, I assume the bronze medallist won't actually get a reprise, so the show is going to end a good fifteen minutes after the show-ending winner's reprise.

 

[D5K]

Can someone summarise for those of us who knew this was going to be a nasty bag of turds?

In summary, it’s a nasty bag of turds.

 

[Tisch]

It's like there's been a BOMB SCARE and they're buying for time. Really awful

 

[Suomi]

this is so stupid

 

[VoR]

Well done Jacqline for not totally flopping I guess.

 

[D5K]

OMG who saw that coming

 

[Apoca]

6 songs across 100 minutes of tv, 40 of those on the voting doesn’t exactly make for riveting tv, does it.

 

[Soldi]

I could’ve told you that result about ten minutes ago..

 

[ButterTart]

All that for the result we already inferred from the scoreboard twenty minutes ago.

 

[Tisch]

The announcement while they all sit there like:

 

[Sheena]

JACQLINE’S DREADFUL WIG

 

[Tisch]

JACQLINE’S DREADFUL WIG

 

[VoR]

The THRILL of learning she now has to hike all the way to Sundsvall in four weeks to sit in a green room and most likely be told she hasn't qualified for the finals.

 

[ButterTart]

And she can't even be that happy since she's not even made the final. This is all in service of telling her the public deemed her slightly less shit than the ones who failed to qualify.

 

[Sheena]

Is there only one through to AC?

I LITERALLY HAVE NO IDEA!

 

[Tisch]

I didn't even realise Andra Chansen was smaller. And the indignity of her not getting flowers and standing up on stage either. Honestly WHAT.

 

[Madison]

Ditch all innovations and go back to exactly how it was in Melodifestivalen 2008. Preferably with exactly the same artists.