In order to justify their participation in the celebration of the nothingness of the secular culture known as "reality", the girls who star in the series "Daughters of Barak" tell themselves and the viewers that it is a "mission" to be on the screen, and insist that through the reality show they are sanctifying Hashem.
But they are lying to themselves, and to the viewers.
Because "Daughters of Lightning" is no different from any other docu-reality trash series, and therefore its five heroines mainly devote themselves to the values of exposure and publicity.
In the end, secularists and ultra-Orthodox are brothers.
Quite a few series have tried in recent years to mediate the ultra-orthodox world for the secular.
"Banet Brak", which has been airing since yesterday on HOT and introduces us to a new type of Bnei Brak, is also losing itself because it is busy mediating between sectors.
In fact, it is a series about religious women that is mainly aimed at a secular audience, that looks at its characters through secular eyes and tries to prove that there is no difference between the sectors.
To the tunes of Noa Kirel and Anna Zak, she presents young women whose daily routine is no different from any other reality or Instagram host.
It's just that they are ultra-Orthodox and live in Bnei Brak, and that should shake our world.
"Banet Barak" wishes to reshape the term "Orthodox woman" as it is portrayed on television, and highlights five women who deviate from the norm - a blogger, an event producer, a makeup artist, a gossiper and a wig shop worker.
They are groundbreaking, independent, generally based and manage Instagram accounts with tens of thousands of followers.
They have a headdress, ultra-orthodox slang and a fondness for cameras.
They do not represent some trendy ultra-Orthodox phenomenon, but rather the Instagram culture.
They are attracted to the world of glamor and fame, and know what it means to be a reality TV personality, what to say and how to behave.
And so, what came out is a humble version of "Periphery Empire", "The Kardashians", "The BuzzGloss", or any generic trash series you've watched in the last 15 years.
The seculars are already tired of it, but precisely now the ultra-Orthodox remembered to join, as usual late, and jumped headfirst into the kosher pot of doco reality.
And it's a bottomless pot.
Every sector needs its own Kardashians, and the ultra-Orthodox public also needs a strictly kosher freak show, but "Daughters of Barak" prefers to tread a stately and casual line.
The girls may touch on women's rights and the limits of freedom, but drown in banality and stay away from provocations, and progress without a plot and without added value.
Just trash made in Bnei Brak.
The initial idea was promising, but "Benat Barak" is having trouble getting it to work.
It is shallow, oozes stereotypes, is careful not to offend or fail and fails to build promising conflicts and storylines for the continuation.
It's like an Instagram story broadcast on TV.
There is nothing in it, certainly not holiness and mission.
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