Precisely at a time when reality shows are trying to get smart, upgrade and reinvent themselves, "Dancing with the Stars" proves that it is possible to make do with the minimum and still rake in all the cash.
The reality of the archery of Keshet closed last night (Monday) a short season in a colorful and long final, which was signed with a backward somersault by Alex Shtilov, the lifting of a golden trophy, and viewing percentages that are worth showing off.
The secret to the success of the program is so simple that it does not need to be explained.
I mean, just like you don't have to explain the rules of competition because they are clear to everyone - dancing, ranking, voting, washing.
Thus, even when the identity of the conductor (Shtilov) was almost clear since the first episode, viewers still indulged in the glittering escapism led by Lucy Job, drifting into daily crises in rehearsal rooms, injuries, celibacy, and tears of twelfth grade. Everything was perfect - until terrorist attacks began. .
Because the show must go on, "Dancing" provided - as you were supposed to guess - a fairly standard and simple finale.
Each pair that advanced to the final presented two performances, the participants of the season jumped to say goodbye, Anna Aronov and Rona-Lee Shimon moved their legs and gave a solo, the judges pampered the finalists in the top ten as if they were Nadia Comanche;
You know, the usual and simple package of a final event.
Was simple, but also sad.
Lucy Job in "Dancing with the Stars", Photo: Keshet 12
Dancing with missiles
Flashback to 2009.
Rainbow envied the success of "Dancing with the Stars" (which aired on the network in those days), and developed its own competing dance format, "War of the Worlds" they called it.
But suddenly a real war broke out - Operation Cast Lead took over the headlines.
As a result, the show's problematic name was immediately changed to "We Won't Stop Dancing," but viewers had no desire to celebrate.
One plan was interrupted following a missile fall, another was canceled due to the situation, and it soon became clear that when cannons were thundering - discussions about articulation fell silent.
When they internalized the collapse, Yoav Tzafir directed a dramatic washout program.
Ten dancers were eliminated at once, and a week later folded the season.
This is how a war once wiped out a dance program.
That post-trauma was carried over the last episodes of "Dancing with the Stars" by director Tzafir, Teddy Productions and Keshet Broadcasts, and it seems that the most complex task for them this time was to reach the moment of announcing the winning couple, without an attack blowing up the celebration. In Ichilov.
At the end of the final, when Adi Ashkenazi gave the loss interview to Nadav Bornstein in "Live at Night", she told why she had long hoped to be after the project.
"With all the joy and escapism that television as a platform produces for us as artists, it was very painful for me to go through the filming alongside the war (in Ukraine) and the things that happened in the country.
Dances represent joy and sexyness, self-liberation, so it is not by chance that public discourse around "Dancing with the Stars" has faded as soon as the current wave of terrorist attacks has begun.
And who remembers being angry about dismissing Sandy Barr?
Good thing the season ended yesterday.
Not for nothing did Natasha sing, "I do not dance when sad."
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