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2020-08-15T20:37:12.648Z


Two twins are all hiding their new gig as wanted hunters, a kind-hearted football coach who is unfamiliar with the game and yet conquers those around them, and an unbearable basketball coach with a penchant for rage and profanity. This is what we thought of "Give a Head", "Ted Lasso", "Step and a Half"


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Great trainers, terrible trainers and wanted hunters: Review of new series

Two twins are all hiding their new gig as wanted hunters, a kind-hearted football coach who is unfamiliar with the game and yet conquers those around them, and an unbearable basketball coach with a penchant for rage and profanity. This is what we thought of "Give a Head", "Ted Lasso", "Step and a Half"

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Ido Yeshayahu

Sunday, 16 August 2020, 00:00

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      Trailer for the "Teenage Bounty Hunters" series on Netflix (Netflix)

      Teenage Bounty Hunters

      Genji Cohen continues to remain loyal to Netflix. After "Orange is the New Black" and "GLOW" it comes with a new series in its production. A crime comedy that follows Sterling and Blair (Maddie Phillips and Angelica Betty Fellini), 16-year-old unidentified twins, who balance their lives as girls in a prestigious religious Christian high school in the southern United States with their new secret careers as tough wanted hunters in Bauer's service. Another world "), a grumpy middle-aged man who is indeed his true profession.

      There are so many problematic things in "giving in". The plot in it sometimes seems bouncy - whole passages that are suddenly skipped and only told about in retrospect; Artificial moments where the music played in the place is stopped in climactic scenes and then reproduced; Bad effects of a view from a moving car, a not particularly convincing comedy play by Phillips (in the drama segments it is cool) and priest and priestess.

      In addition, part of the basic characterization of Sterling and Blair is their tendency to constantly chat, which exhausts Bauser. This is a rhetoric that forms an almost permanent background in the series and on which hangs much of the comedy the series is trying to produce, quite similar to the relentless wit in the feverish coming of two other family members with a special and strong bond: Lorelai and Rory in "Gilmore Girls." The significant difference is that "Gilmore Girls" was funny while "Give in the Head" makes a great effort to do so and does not always hurt. This is an aspect that indicates something bigger, the sweaty endeavor in many aspects of "giving in the head".

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      An unconvincing comedy play by Phillips (right). "Give in the head" (Photo: Netflix)

      And despite all this, "giving in the head" has a lot of charm. It stems mainly from the connection between the sisters, the chemistry and the great and conquering love between them, including moments of telepathy that are explicitly dramatized time and time again. Another virtue of her is her ability to establish an interesting dissonance between the Christian faith of the characters, chiefly Sterling, and their desire to sin, to have sex, and so on. And if there’s one thing the series really does well to do, it’s juggle the knowledge gaps of the characters and ours. Often works present at the beginning a great secret that we know and the characters do not yet, which leads to the wait that the obvious will happen and everything will explode. It is done here too but in non-oppressive ways and with a host of successful twists.

      So in the end, even though it's not perfect, after I'm done watching the season I'm having a hard time shaking the "giving in my head" out of my thoughts. Even a little miss.


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      Great and captivating love. "Give in the head" (Photo: Netflix)

      Ted Lasso

      Nowadays, in sports, exactly one week apart, two new series are coming up that deal with coaches and teams. The first, whose first three episodes aired on Friday on Apple TV Plus (also in Israel of course, and with Hebrew subtitles), is a comedy created by Bill Lawrence ("Scrubs") and Jason Sodeikis ("Saturday Night Live," "How to Get Rid of the Boss"), which also Starring in a Texan accent. Ted Laso is a fairly anonymous American college football manager who gets a job offer from his dreams: to coach a professional football team in the town of Richmond in England. Although the two games are called by the same name, Lasso has no experience with the non-American version.

      There's something more accurate about Ted Lasso these days than it seems at first glance. It not only describes a parallel universe where football games are held with an audience, there are no social distances, everyone hangs out together, shakes hands and flies without a problem from the United States to England. It is also a series that is full of soul and comfort at a time when we definitely need such.

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      Expanding heart. Jason Sodeikis, "Ted Laso" (Photo: Apple TV Plus)

      The story she tells is not new or original. In fact, the protagonist is a kind of masculine and mustachioed version of Leslie Nop, the efficient and nice character played by Amy Poehler in "Gardens and Landscape Department", while the basic story of the series is incredibly absurd, almost a fairy tale: we are expected to believe that a person barely knows the game. His new one (it still doesn't happen in the first three episodes, but that's probably where it strives). The thing is, for the sake of this magical tale, one can believe that Ted's humanistic approach works. An approach that seeks to bring out the best in all the people around, including the hidden janitor to the tools (Nick Muhammad, who recently starred in transatlantic series - he also created and stars in the "Secret Agent" series with David Schwimmer), so that the whole enterprise will succeed. Why would it not work?

      It is so easy to be convinced that "Ted Lasso" is so graceful that it lightly overshadows the reservations. The whole series is a weave of small and entertaining jokes, dotted here and there with sincere sentimental moments, wrapped in a well-meaning general approach. It is so effective and heart-expanding that even small jokes, ones that in other cases might have squeezed a small smile, manage to yield laughs of pleasure. Without us noticing, she applies our protagonist's attitude to us: just as Ted's basic optimism erodes the skeptics who call him "masturbator" and is anxious about the fate of their group, so she pulsates throughout the series and dissolves any opposition to her.

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      Step and a half (Hoops)

      As mentioned, a week apart from "Ted Lasso" this coming Friday, the adult animated series "Step and a Half" will be aired on Netflix, produced by Chris Miller and Phil Lord ("Lego" movies). In this case it's a high school basketball coach (Jake Johnson, "the new girl"): Ben Hopkins, the son of a famous former basketball player with a short fuse and a dirty mouth, convinces himself that if he only leads his terrible high school team to accomplishments - his miserable life Will improve accordingly. To this end he will do anything unethical or moral imaginable.

      The sub-genre of demonstrably non-educational pedagogical figures is not exactly new. The last few years alone have brought with them the "Deputy Principals" (which aired in Israel on Yes), "Teachers" (on HOT), the Danish "Rita" (on Netflix), "AP Bio" and "Those Who Can't" (both Not broadcast in Israel). All of the above are dozens of times better than "a step and a half." Familiar with the fact that unsuccessful comedians speak with shouts and profanity in the hope that this is what will sweep their audience? This is exactly the definition of "step and a half".

      Jake Johnson, one of the cutest and most entertaining actors of the last decade, is just awful here. And not just because the character he plays is a human scum who tries and manages to be exaggerated in every aspect, but because Johnson neutralizes any possibility that his own grace will stick to the character he plays. Coach Ben's irritability is expressed only in a thunderous voice and constant curses (in the first episode alone the word "fuck" is said dozens of times, and this without considering the other curses), and alongside his lousy character as the script is careful to define it, it is an unbearable combination of losers and dominance , Derives pleasure wherever it can only be found.

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      You can almost smell the stench of the boys' wardrobes. "A step and a half" (Photo: Netflix)

      Between Ben, his basketball team and the assistant coach, "Step and a Half" is a series from which testosterone is blown away. Almost everything in this series screams infantile masculinity or adolescence literally, as requested. You can almost smell the stench of the boys' wardrobes. There are only two female characters in it: Ben's estranged wife and the school principal, and their place is tiny in relation to the oppressive rudeness of the series' protagonist. Even when there is already a love story between one of the team players and a girl from school, it is completely presented from the male's point of view.

      There are quite a few difficult series to watch. This too is a sub-genre in itself in recent years. But to sweeten the bitter pill requires balancing factors, and a "step and a half" is free of such - whether it is in original plots, endearing characters that will surround him, and especially in the biggest sin of the series, the fact that it is simply not funny on the sail.

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