"The Patriots" without Yanon Magal is not the same, and I will forgive Itamar Fleishman who presented the Channel 14 primetime program last night in his place - because Magal actually plays the court jester of the parliament, and his absence will always be felt.
Magel is the one who sits at the head of the table, controls the bag of seeds and the distribution of topics.
He is always grumpy and nervous, leading the conversation with a raised hand, shouting "Where have we come?"
and adds exaggerated hand movements.
When he's not there, something is amiss in the loudest populist parliament on TV.
Now 14's evening circus is the flagship program of the channel.
Every evening, when the Eretz Israel flock is drawn to reality TV on the commercial channels, Magal greets his viewers who voted on the sign with a hymn about the troubles that have befallen the country, from the Knesset and the courts to his Twitter feed.
"The Patriots" are no longer the same without the familiar moderator (for illustration), photo: Noam Rivkin Fenton
Around him, a group of opinion changers rejoices, with radical statements that can be guessed in advance.
This is the parliament of the "Patriots" - the program that criticizes those who celebrate gentile holidays, that calls not to adopt Christian or leftist customs, that preaches loyalty to Judaism and Hebrew, but chose a foreign name for itself.
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Since the establishment of the government, the "patriots" are arrogant, oppose the protests and began to invite a supportive and noisy audience to the broadcasts.
"Yes, we also applaud the leftists who come to the studio," Yanon Magal usually clarifies when he introduces the Smolen panelist on duty.
The debates on the affairs of the day mostly serve a single-party agenda and are built on the principle of "whatabautism" (ignoring the claims at the center of the debate by emphasizing claims on the opposite side).
Last night, for example, complaints were heard one after the other that "this is exactly what the members of the opposition did", "the previous government closed microphones", "and why doesn't Miara investigate Lieberman"?, and Efrat Reiten and Nelly Tager, and now advertisements and we will immediately continue.
"The Patriots", from Channel 20 (archive), photo: Nadav Cohen Yonatan
The patriots in Hebrew are the nationalists, the people of the homeland.
That's why it's probably convenient for Ari Shamai to sit there and spew racist comments at everyone he can ("What's Lieberman's Russian called? It's your fault I'm confusing them").
This is how it is in the parliament - one moment they read a tweet by Gilat Bennett, the next they get into it, sting Gideon Sa'ar, and finally they are upset about the integration of trans people in the IDF.
On Tuesday, "The Patriots" achieved a rating record of 5 percent.
This is proof that the people of Israel in part like to watch gladiator fights, shouts and shofar playing.
But you can't argue with that - "The Patriots" is currently the most divisive program on television.
"Welcome to the Chippendales", Disney+
Americans like to go with the flow, so today it is easiest to sell an idea for a series in Hollywood when it has at least two of the following ideas: a story about a man who founds a business, a plot that takes place in the eighties, a reversal of power between men and women, buttocks and hidden sexuality, an immigrant hero who fulfills the American dream.
The drama series "Welcome to Chippendales" that premiered yesterday on Disney+ includes all the necessary elements.
At its center is the story of Steve (Suman) Banerjee, an immigrant from India who invented the world's most successful male strip empire.
In general, it is like other series about a businessman from the eighties who broke conventions;
And yet, the drama touches not only on exposed parts but also on the dilemmas of prostitution, objectification, management, racism and a few more.
"Welcome to the Chippendales" is a great series for quick viewing, not too provocative, but on the other hand excessively long, greasy, enthusiastic and tiring.
She is like a random stripper that is consumed and thrown away.
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