The discourse created around the promos of "Zero Hour," even before it aired last night (Monday), has already begun to establish the series as a "citizenship lesson," but it is not.
and better this way.
The enjoyment of it will come, and it will come, of all the things that make up a good series: an original story and a new left-right angle, a well-crafted plot and wonderful acting. But a decent rate in citizenship is not. Certainly not when only one ideological side is properly presented: yes, yes. You guessed it - the leftist. Whoever judges the series as a political debate between left and right will sin the matter, because it presents a real leftist in the form of a citizenship teacher, but the right is represented by a girl without a cohesive political affiliation, a problematic teenager who adopted a superficial view that leftists easily stick to right-wingers ("Death to Arabs"). Mainly to overcome feelings of rejection and low body image, and to get closer to the boy she loves in class.
According to the first three chapters, the root of the conflict and the plot that develops from it lead to the trending assertions to which we have become accustomed from our cultural world: the left is values and haunted, and the right is racist and militant.
This time, the education system also mobilized to abuse the martyred saint and protect the common right.
The leftist pays the price of the conflict and embarks on a journey of torment in Israeli society, and the rightist only benefits from it.
Creator Dikla Kedar has created a drama inspired by the storm of teacher Adam Verta, who was fired after the same public scheming with a student.
This is a series that focuses on issues of racism in Israeli society, the question of the IDF's morality and even marking "V" on the Elor Azaria affair, but so that oilmen will watch and feel guilty about these opinions of theirs.
It is not a real discussion, mainly because the subject of the lesson - Arabs who throw comments at Jews in the pool and therefore should be banned from entering - it is doubtful whether it would have led to "death to the Arabs", or an Israeli citizenship teacher and students in such chaos.
But as mentioned, this is a fine work that can be really enjoyed.
In contrast to the disease of quite a few Israeli series, of unrealistic dialogues, it is well written and staged (Eitan Tzur), and introduces us to a world of sensitive and complex characters who can be believed to have just placed a camera next to them.
Above all stands out an acting cast of an entire cast, led by a great performance by Doron Ben David ("Fauda") as the teacher, Mia Landsman ("The Commander"), Ronit Appel and Amir Banai (Orna's son), who reliably plays a boy who has to deal with storms he has arranged Lou his father - a reality he probably knows from mom.
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