Willem te Molder was already done with it after delivery one. “There is a lot of shit on TV and this program is also part of that. It is not so typical Achterhoek, it is just a caricature of the region with a few strange types together, then you are done ”, says 65-year-old Boh Foi Toch bassist from Groenlo. “I don’t watch anymore.”
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Thijs van Beem, former mayor of Winterswijk, uses similar wording. He sent an angry letter to the EO: “I think it’s a bad program: very one-sided selection of subjects, easy choice, stereotypical”, he writes. ‘I think you are in the program Typically Achterhoek makes a caricature of the Achterhoek. Completely out of place to portray our dynamic region, with so many modern people and companies, in such a ridiculous way ‘.
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