The format is new, the presenter is great, the alternative is not interesting and the curiosity is old, but the production managed to ruin the reality because of an old mistake
More of the same.
"New Love" Women
I'll start from the end: I'm not the classic audience of matchmaking shows, mainly because I'm not interested in watching other people's relationships, their complexity, and certainly not the eating rush that this whole thing brings with it.
Still, I sat down to watch the "new love" of Network 13, both because it's my job, both because a football game was broadcast opposite and because Liron Weizmann was promised, and it's easy to like.
Let’s get back to the beginning: Even in a whole new format, we again got the same annoying casting mistake.
For those who have not seen, we are told that these are four women who are looking for love, but what, and the twist in the case in question is closure, isolation, if you will, with a man of her choice for a long time in a camera-networked apartment.
By themselves, each of the women cast for the show delivers the goods, but when they are together they look almost the same, and mostly do not reflect the women in society, not even just those who are looking for love.
Roni, Rona, Noa and Noa - the similarity in the names is completely coincidental and insanely ironic.
All four in the very narrow age range 29-32;
They are all from the center of the country and only one from the periphery, although by definition Ashkelon is not considered a periphery;
They all also share the same slim physique, of course, and all four are good-looking;
They are all single without children.
With a lot of imagination, the feeling is that these are four of the elementary friends sitting at a table next to you in a restaurant and celebrating one of them a birthday with balloons tied to a chair.
Neither of them is divorced, not of minorities, not of large sizes, not of age (not even a little) and certainly not one who became a mother at the age of 20 and two years later divorced and wants to mend the previous relationship.
Not to be misunderstood - I have no problem with any of them, but when all four characters are almost identical, the conflicts, respectively, are very similar, and the result, respectively, is dull.
This casting problem is exacerbated when it turns out that men are also all winked at by the same material.
They are all single, handsome and sturdy, of the same age range of course.
The climax of the drama they provide lies in the fact that they, fed up with dating, and they even - hold on tight - admit it.
Wow, what a drama.
Thirty-plus-year-old men interested in a relationship, who would have believed.
Where have the divorced men who are looking for chapter two in their lives gone?
Where are the plumbers, the mini-bastards who love reality shows, the stationers?
Even just someone in his early 20s who was charismatic enough to get girls to choose him, or at least put them in a dilemma, would have miraculously improved the casting.
A similar critique has been voiced in the past about the "wedding at first sight" of the contestants, and rightly so.
The consequences of the critique on screen were expressed in the form of only one couple in the third season of reality - Eric and Dobby who were looking for episode two.
My bet: There will be no radical changes in the subject next season either.
It seems that the genre of matchmaking programs will not disappear from the screen any time soon, which is fine, because it has an audience.
But it's time for the cast to open their minds and hearts to different types, to different ages, to different shades and especially to take care to produce deep conflicts that are beyond a date at a bar in Dizengoff, or a three-minute conversation on Tinder.
From this we have enough in our gray reality.
After all, the cast knows this for themselves.
Fact, even though they broke up after a short time, the love story of Lior and Tikva in the last season of "Big Brother" is more interesting than all the couples who have left the reality shows in recent years and all the dates of "New Love".
So true, we have no expectation of true love coming out of reality shows, but if you are already watching them, at least it will be interesting.
