The new sketch show that came up on HOT tries to burst with laughter but at the same time also to excite, bass and depress - and it is not clear what it wants to achieve
Yuval Samu and Guri Alfi in "Transparent"
There are transparent people, and there are the puppies of thousands.
My puppies are seen everywhere, all the time.
It is the most opaque there is at the moment.
There are transparent people, and there is Yuval Samu.
Samu is seen everywhere, all the time.
And here - in case you felt a certain lack - a new series, "Transparent" aired on HOT yesterday (Sunday), in which the two play a lead role alongside Gila Almagor, Tiki Dayan and Eli Yitzpan.
A cast that promises mountains and hills just by participating in the series.
This time, Samu and Alfi play security guards, contractor workers.
They are the transparent and miserable people from the peeling housing estates, who try to get a raise from the arrogant boss (Yitzpan) and suffer from him the humiliation that causes them to flee his office in embarrassment.
Then Alfi's character also snatches from the matchmaker (Dayan), who slaps him: "You are not the king of beauty. You have an annoying voice, the charisma of a fax and you come on a date with a bag of croutons."
"I thought we might flow into the soup at Kopix later," he replies, almost reluctant to match up with a prisoner.
Transparent that it's funny.
But "Transparent" wants us to take it seriously.
Her characters are pathetic - from their exterior to their interior.
They carry a tragic life story, even though it is wrapped in punches.
For example, when the two play "Eretz-Ir", Alfi's character provides the answer "You can touch me, but that will be our little secret" in the category "Teachers' sentences in the first letter", and the viewer is not clear if it is a gloomy punch or pedophilic harassment Which ruined his life.
And so the series spins from extreme to extreme, escaping into dark areas when it feels like it or when it gets stuck endlessly in a sketch.
In this way it can be said that "Transparent", created by Eli Ben David, Adar Mirom and Omri Amit ("Puppet of the Night", we are on the map "), was inspired by series such as" Little Britain "or its local imitations," Am Sgula "and" The Israelis "- They are all sketch comedies who have chosen to concentrate on the strange little man, who is transparent to the majority of the population.
After watching three episodes (last night two were screened, tonight will be the third) it is difficult to determine what "Transparent" is trying to achieve.
She gets lost between comedy and tragedy, trying to burst out laughing, but at the same time also moving, bassing and depressing until you want to cry to the melancholy performance of the characters to a sad Hebrew hit.
"Transparent" oscillates most of the time in extreme contrast.
On the one hand, it broadcasts a reality of "Poor Things in Life" in a desert version, but maintains the rules of comedy and produces not the most realistic situations that interfere with kicking the viewers' stomachs at the height of their power.
She's like a clown who's sad, trying to fuck everyone else.
The colorful makeup is smeared on his face, the tear sticks out in his eye, and even though everyone remembers his laughs, he himself is no longer convinced that he still wants it.
Just like "transparent".
The saddest clown is real and not hypocritical at all, but humans prefer their clowns to jokes.
People do not like sad clowns.
Transparent, HOT3, 8:30 p.m.
