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"Lost": How to Make a Good TV | Israel today

2021-10-14T05:51:15.664Z


Scout Grant's series on Network 13 delves into important issues in the company, and uses all the right tools to do so: invested research, gradual construction of the plot, use of emotion, accurate editing and great photography


The power of television lies in the ability of CWL to utilize it for their own needs;

Because when the story unfolds correctly, everyone can cut a coupon - Scout Grant, adopted Swedish twins or even a man convicted of horrific murder.

The story is about Matilda and her mother, twins who were born in Israel 36 years ago.

Their mother died in childbirth, and they were sent for adoption in Sweden.

Now, the two have somehow rolled over to Scout Grant to crack for them the mystery and the confused details in the adoption documents.

At first they were reluctant to use television to decipher their origins and hidden secret, but soon the twins were trapped in Grant's embracing arms and eventually found themselves in Israel.

They overlook a nearby hill on the Bedouin settlement of Tuba-Zangariyah, and are exposed to information that the biological mother was poisoned at birth, and their father, who was convicted of murder, is interested in meeting them.

Even before moral questions about such a meeting permeate, it is worth mentioning that while television speeds up processes and lowers barriers, the same public attention is an obstacle that Grant repeatedly encounters.

It's nice that she wants to help, but most of the people she meets are afraid of the accompanying exposure.

In the above case, the mother's family hid from the clouds of shame and sent threats towards Grant, and at the same time the father's family pressured him to take a distance, while he insisted that nationwide exposure would benefit him.

After serving 17 years in prison, the tormented father saw an opportunity to use commercial television to clear his name and purify his heart.

Did he kill her?

He claims not to.

Was he involved in the murder?

Does he know more than he tells?

"Lost" provides no answers, as she is swept up after the father's version to lead her to the climax of the story.

"Lost" needs him.

She needs the crazy story he holds in his hands and the closing of the emotional circle he was willing to provide.

Grant, wisely, does not make a clear position about his motives or allegations that he sat in jail for a murder he did not commit.

And yet, she slaps everyone in the face with the tough questions, does not miss, does not give up, and uses a lot of emotional manipulations to squeeze information and tears from anyone who enters the plot line.

Do not give up and do not miss.

Scout Grant, Photo: Ilan Besor

It would have been better to shorten and tighten the saga, but it is also clear why this story received a treatment that stretched the drama to maximum dimensions.

For the purpose of inflating, "Lost" uses all the tools at its disposal: invested research, gradual construction of the plot, use of emotion for mental crushing of the characters and viewers, precise editing with the help of True-Crime motifs, great photography sometimes taken from a hidden angle. One Scout Grant who runs them all.

In the minutes when the show does not function as a tear-jerker from the simplest model, "Lost" knows how to take sharp turns in fascinating directions, exposing the unhappy person in the moments of depression and despair of his life.

The affair that "Lost" has dealt with in the past two weeks is significant, because it is rare for a family honor murder to receive such a melodramatic extension over four episodes in prime time, including probing the consequences that developed several decades after the incident.

Because if everyone uses television for their own needs, it's great that among the many uses Grant has managed to use by chance to flood in prime time the issue of treatment of women in the Bedouin sector, and in Muslim society in general, and awareness of violence against women.

The connection of it all together made up a great sequence of episodes that reminded why "Lost" is one of the better series aired here.

Source: israelhayom

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