In the office building of Channel 13, although they did not open champagne, they did celebrate the victory of "Survival" yesterday with a launch party with pizza trays on the roof for all the employees.
"Victory" means that the opening episode attracted 0.6 percent more views than the costume karaoke of the simultaneously broadcast Rainbow, in a kind of cross-channel gladiatorial battle.
But the network did not stop at the pizza, and in the evening fed its viewers in another episode, whose promo already featured an extreme statement by actor Henry David: "I have a rejection from a person who comes from a more eastern tribe than me. I admit it, I have a rejection ... ".
N., who would have believed, but "Survival" chose to release the ethnic demon already at the starting point.
Disturbing hints were scattered in the premiere episode, but last night the racial debate really burned in the Tribal Council bonfire, where the two tribes were rarely gathered together to catalog and hurl insults that correspond with Avishai Ben-Haim's teachings about the first and second Israel.
It did not come out of nowhere.
Let's take a moment to look at the casting for the season: Henry "I am a racist Achushilling" David, along with his uncle Awat who picked up a second career from filth on Ashkenazis on Twitter, Of Bouzaglo "Babon" last season, or Odelia Suissa who raced against Ashkenazis in every reality she went through.
With such a headache, who would have time to look at Michael Lewis' squares?
In other words, the explosion of racism and ethnic insults already in the second episode reflect more than anything the broad vision of the series' production regarding what it is interested in getting from the survivors it has chosen for the game.
And it turns out that this includes racism against Orientals, Russians, and other colors and types.
At the same time, through Leah Gil, the production also pushed for an attempt to create a gender division among the contestants and to establish a women's alliance that would later lead to control struggles between the girls and boys.
Because what "Survival" does is take forgotten celebrities with plowed agendas, then shuffle them around each other around these conflicts, and from there strengthen the ratings.
But nowadays, when racism is slapped in prime time for the sake of family enjoyment and entertainment, it no longer shocks people, and certainly does not affect viewers' built-in worldview.
Thus, the viewer’s popular backlash is just to get dirty back on social media, then come back to get more in the next episode.
That’s how “Survival” did its ratings last season, which dropped as low as possible and provided viewing percentages and public discourse.
More than that, after all, she's not looking for.
In the early seasons of "Survival," the villain on duty used to lie and maneuver to advance the game, oust others and win fans, and the state was shocked by the erosion of morality.
Dan Mano is a good example.
Today, human survival is a negligible part of the plot.
And it sucks because this is a process, some evolution that has taken place in the Israeli format.
The plot content we get less deals with the development of a game of strategies and of physical and mental endurance struggles, but rather looks like a playground for humiliations, personal declines, wars of honor and ego, and as mentioned, quite a bit of racism.
Is this a subversive and gloomy message about the way we are supposed to survive in the reality of 2021, when bestiality rules our lives?
It seems not.
Because first of all "VIP Survival" looks at ethnic and gender conflicts like a flint that is capable of igniting the entire season and catching viewers on screen.
