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Love it really hurts: "That's How It Is" jumps a step in the second season

Dana Modan and Asi Cohen's comedy drama is much more focused and tight than its predecessor, and also much funnier.

The two nameless heroes are indeed together now, but he is more reassured as she shuffles around the place.

This disharmony is the magic spice of the season

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Ido Yeshayahu

Wednesday, 16 September 2020, 00:00

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Excerpt from "That's How It Is" Season 2 (yes)

I was worried about what was nesting in me ahead of the new season of "That's How It Is".

On days like these, when we are all about to shut ourselves up in homes of necessity, when everything around seems so discouraging anyway, can we really deal with a series whose protagonists are as frayed and submissive as reality threatens to do to all of us?

That the melancholy in it whispers like a charcoal?

Blackened on its banner the reconciliation with the destiny, the status quo?

After all, that's really the name of the series.

On the other hand, perhaps everyday banality from the days before the corona is exactly what we need?

Perhaps the triviality of existence that "so it is" so well described, accompanied by annoying whistling music, is something we can now cuddle up to?

But already in the first episode of the new season, which airs today (Wednesday) in full on yes, it turns out that this is a different creature.

The status quo is broken, and it continues to break as the season progresses, and yet without compromising the basic character of "That's How It Is."

In the first season, the two nameless protagonists - played by Dana Modan and Asi Cohen, who also created the series with director Ram Nahari - found a vital human connection with each other.

The relationship between them was then a kind of prickly dance that left them close but also at a distance of a simple arm forward, a moment together and a moment apart, and in any case not exclusive to each other.

The situation changed at the end of the season when they kissed passionately at the neighbor's party.

Now, in the new season, they are already really a couple, which inevitably brings with it a different baggage.

The same dance among its protagonists still exists, but is different.

Is at the level of advanced.

In fact, it's something that defines the entire second season - "That's How It Is" makes a leap in it.

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A masterpiece of yin and yang.

"That's How It Is" Season 2 (Photo: Ohad Romano)

It is possible to draw a direct line between the change in the character of the protagonist, this time we even get to find out what his last name is, and the whole "that's how it is".

At first he was depressed, turned off and sloppy.

Now, with the year that has passed since (according to the protagonist it is about the time that has elapsed since the heart attack she experienced in the opening episode), he is already recovered, nurtured and even a little imbued with purpose.

So is the second season of "That's How It Is."

It is much more focused and condensed in its most basic senses: it has only seven episodes compared to a dozen the previous time, and most episodes number 20 minutes, sometimes even less.

The series gets rid almost entirely of airy and detailed scenes whose point is understood long minutes before they end - like a routine meal at a restaurant, a prosaic argument at the checkout counter or a foreign couple eating dinner with their children - in favor of something even reminiscent of a plot.

On top of that, and again depending on the hero's mood, the second season is insanely funny.

In the first episode, the protagonist is forced to confront his daughter (Kim Azoulay) while he is on drugs and with his judicial ex-wife (Doreen Atias) next to him - a scene that can easily enter Asi Cohen's spacious comic pantheon.

The second episode has a saga with parking under the building - a scene that could just as easily have turned into a classic sketch starring Shauli.

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Recovered, nurtured and even a little purposeful.

Asi Cohen, "That's How It Is" Season 2 (Photo: Neti Levy)

The scripts for the first season were signed by Modan alone, while Cohen and Nahari served as the screenwriters.

This time, too, Cohen's name appears as the screenwriter alongside her, which may - with an emphasis on perhaps - help explain the changes.

It's not that the cards are preyed upon and "this is how it is" changes its whole character.

Its core is preserved.

If the series opens with his suicide attempt and her heart attack, in this case the shadow of death is represented by an opening scene in which two random people talk about burial arrangements - she complains that her current husband will be buried next to his ex-wife in the couple they previously purchased.

"Life is short and death is long," she says, distilling the importance and urgency of existence (these people are played by directors Eran Kolirin and Daphne Levin, who exhibit a natural and surprising play, especially Levin. Her freshest series on the resume is "Fifty," the new season of "Like That" It "conjures it up in several ways".

And since death lurks at the end, and sometimes even in the middle, the bitterness still lingers in the tone of "That's the Way It Is," and at the heart of the series still stands the growing bond between the two protagonists as a counter to anything that sucks: oppressive children, harassing strangers, and even both themselves who sometimes burden each other.

Cohen's character is already in another place, while Modan's character is stepping in place and perhaps even retreating, including a nostalgic encounter with a childhood friend (Roi Kafri).

The familiar fatigue of her character sharpens even more in the face of the relative blossoming of Cohen's character.

Most of the time it is hard to decipher on her face what she feels, as if she is so sober and disappointed that even her body no longer bothers to respond to them with too much emotion.

So when a shout is already emanating from her, she sends a shiver up her spine.

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Exciting.

Dana Modan, "That's How It Is" Season 2 (Photo: Neti Levy)

The disharmonious progress of the two protagonists flashes a charm of the second season, a masterpiece of yin and yang.

In one episode he even tells her explicitly, in a different (and funny) context: "Complementary opposites."

What used to be a connection based on a partnership of fate - in the clear sense of fate, since they are neighbors and doomed to save each other - stands the test of mentioning that love is really painful and who knows what the outcome will be in the end.

Until then he is very funny, exciting and captivating.

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