Hypothetical question: if a tree falls in the forest but there is no human being around it - does the tree make any noise when it falls?
And how do we know that he did crash and didn't just fade away, wither and sink quietly to the ground, if no one witnessed his sad death?
The shrunken ratings (something in the region of 7-8 percent) that still watch Keshet's crumbling reality show, "The Group", proves that there will always be humans who would rather fall asleep watching a tree fall, than swallow a sleeping pill and be done with it.
"The group", in its last chapters, is like a cockroach lying on its back and desperately shaking its opposite legs, only wishing that someone would already step on it and put an end to its suffering.
"The group", photo: Keshet 12
"The Group" will be quickly forgotten, and will be recorded in the archives as one of the worst reality shows made in Israel.
She dreamed of being the new "Hatunami", but didn't develop beyond an awkward imitation of a messy and routine WhatsApp group, just like all the muted groups that run on everyone's personal cell phones.
As a format, this show is as confused as Tarantino trying to speak Hebrew.
And they pushed for hollow and generic casting, with zero conflicts or interesting content that could last a season.
It would have been better to look at drying paint - and Yoram Zak knows what that means.
Once, in an episode of "Big Brother", he tested whether people would agree to watch an episode that included a task with drying paint - and people really watched mesmerized by it.
"The group", photo: Keshet 12
The chronic problem of "the group" is that it is complete boredom.
No twists, no emotion, just a few couples stuck with their heads on the phone and texting each other - even when they are sitting on the same sofa.
For such situations we have reality.
Watching people do routine things is already a television pit that sucks us into a black hole.
And in the center of the hole is spinning Yoram Zak.
The director and editor, who in the previous decade raised "Big Brother" to record viewing and consciousness, and here is another series he leads is doomed.
That's how the magic touch ended?
First "2025", his pretentious reality project, crashed with a big noise, and now "the team" is dying of boredom.
No one hears, no one sees, but when a large, hollow tree falls in the forest of Keshet - it is capable of producing an earthquake.
"The group", Keshet 12, were we wrong?
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