Even without taking the reality genre too seriously, it's hard not to get upset about the latest episode of "Wedding at First Sight" and the promo that preceded it

Look, it's not that we're naive. It is clear to us that "reality shows" do not reflect reality one by one, that the authenticity of the reality genre, despite its pretentious name, is questionable and big that the television product we consume is ultimately the product of careful selection and accurate editing, though sometimes Being portrayed as a bun, you can give up, because we still have fun. But this time, it seems, the editors at First Wedding took it one step too far - and sold us "Cat in the Bag." Or love the bag, if you will.

Judging by the last episode, and most of all the expectations the production has built with the "enamored and smiling" promo presented over a number of days compared to the episode itself aired yesterday (pretty dreary to say), in addition to framing "happily ever after" and the mock walk toward couples' sunset, Up until one episode, they could hardly look at each other - all that leads to only one conclusion: You really are, but you really do everything to convince us that the matchmaking worked, right?

Playing with love

Let's start with the first fiction that sold us the last episode. At least the promos seemed to be the case, we got to the estate. We can indulge in pleasure, contentment, and proclaim, "The long-awaited moment has come. We've been waiting for it. Disney's moment of catharsis after a long, teaser teaser, but finally it happened: the A-and-B-couples!"

Did you really expect us to believe that the moment of infatuation and devotion we longed for happened to the three couples at once? Well ... Cupid, what a lot of your doing

Suddenly he managed to live a wolf with a sheep, and Moses, no less, shared a shawarma with Nir, the anguished hunk, raising a shadow of a smile in the corner of her face. Did Christ come? We didn't walk away from the culinary and marvelous scene - both Ronnie and Noam fell in love with them, smearing each other. Dennis, a sasson voice and a joyful voice, also managed to squeeze an emotional compliment from the tough compiler, and came to Zion Redeemer.

But one moment, before you disperse the confetti trail, one question must be asked: Say, dear production team, are you serious? Did you really think we'd swallow it? For half a season you emphasize, insist and urge us to believe that the couples (this season especially the women, plus one arrogant emir) dislike each other, disapprove of each other and reject the very presence of their TV partner in the same living space. And suddenly, on a clear morning of episode 13, everyone falls in love with their partner? The chakras were opened, sky gates were opened, and each of the "perverted and blasphemous" found the spark of love in his heart that had been hidden in the tools until now?

What's more - did you really expect us to believe that the moment of falling in love and devotion we longed for happened to the three couples at once? After all ... Cupid, what do you do and we already thought that since the corona eruption there are no miracles.

As the size of the promo, the size of the disappointments

And now for the second part that disappointed in the last episode, and it came even before the episode was even aired. Of course I'm talking about the promo. We all know that promo is good for creating teasing for the viewer, to bring the most interesting part that will draw us to watch the episode, but still leave a question mark and vigilance that will make us watch the show. Makes sense, overall. However, there are basic rules, an unwritten code, of rationality for the episode's severance versus what it actually airs, and the final chapter's promo simply stretched the boundaries with wild exaggeration.

First, we were promised mountains and hills about the emotional breakthroughs that some couples made, when in practice what we got was a feeble smile from Hagar towards Nir (two minutes after the car filtered: "How did the matchmakers think it might work"?) And a mutual smelling of food products, mentioned Already before, between Ronnie and Noam - which at the end of the episode was translated into a short kiss. After almost half a season of couples not connecting with each other, we were expecting a little more than that in the long-awaited infatuation. Or was it not?

Escapism - yes, manipulations - no

In the reality show genre the question always arises as to how much of the show is true and how much we anticipate forgery and the product of editing. All the more so when it comes to a reality that deals with love and infatuation. After all, emotion is not something that can be engineered, and heart palpitations do not take into account photography angles and ratings. For this reason, we are never sure whether the thing that appears on the screen is real, or manipulates the production, the participants, or both.

Certainly, especially in the days of closure and isolation, we all need some good escapism to be comforted - a throw of hope for the world in general, and the prospect of love in particular - but hey, at least you will sell the lie more reliably. Try to portray the process that each couple went through as a more gradual, more heart-warming, more, well, connected to reality. Real reality, not reality.

It is interesting how many of the "lovers and lovers" we have witnessed this season, or as we defined them in the previous column - "The Brave and the Brave," will survive the season and skip them happily and eagerly for the orange sunset. Until then, we will crave lips and swallow the bait in the form of the love display we know, because after all we need it. While lying does not have legs, it is undoubtedly in high demand, probably in the days of a global epidemic.

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