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The opening episode of "Wonderland": lukewarm but not terrible | Israel today

2021-11-11T08:26:17.541Z


At the opening of the 19th season of The Israeli Satire Power, we got a first episode that was characterized by quite predictable jokes from characters who can sting and bite much harder


Some would argue that in the last three years "Great Country" has returned to its great days.

It's not that she's ever come down from her greatness - yet, in the 18 years she's in the air, no worthy, successful, and honed competitor has yet emerged.

But after several years in which her interest diminished and it seemed that she did not dictate the Israeli satirical and comedic agenda as before, she suddenly woke up again, returned to form and created some of the most remembered characters, imitations and sketches in her history.

From the gun sketch at the bachelorette party, through the tribute to Quinn's Bohemian Rhapsody with the adaptation of the Elor Azaria affair to Shauli's Civil War monologue - and these came to the writer of these lines only in a quick retrieval.

It's not hard to guess what was the spark that ignited the burning again in the engines of the program that Molly Segev has been leading for so many years.

The political opinions of most of its writers and the ideological line of "Great Country" were hard to hide, not that anyone tried, and after almost a decade of opposition to the government, the country's satire program decided to take off its gloves and hit hard, even at the cost of conveying a painful message. The laughter.

Add to that the political tangle farce (as the news systems used to call it, as if it was a lovable children's game and not a shameful political situation) and it is not surprising that as reality became more and more absurd with every election without a clear result, so did the cynics and comedic critics. Their pens.

When the whole business was joined out of nowhere by a health epidemic that changed world orders and reality as we knew it, in general the world itself seemed to be becoming a satire program.

Tamir Bar and the high-tech sketch,

But yesterday, with the rise of the 19th season of "Land", one could feel the change already in its opening. If we put aside for a moment the sketch of the climate crisis (which is not meant to be funny, but also not exactly a direction for a strong punch in the stomach. Max a small blow with the finger on the forehead), the political panel, the one that developed almost every program and lashed out at local elected officials, felt milkier than ever. There was Naftali Bennett of Eran Zarchovich, as a prime minister who is still not sure how he got on and whether he deserves the status (but quite sure he does not want a rotation with Lapid). Avigdor Lieberman told jokes about ultra-Orthodox and gays, Ayelet Shaked no longer reconciled with the government Part of it, and Merav Michaeli refers to the new girl as the son of Lior Schlein.Not terrible, overall, but also no more than a collection of quite predictable jokes, from characters who can when they want to sting and bite much harder.

This continued to be a compelling reference to pop culture, in the form of how not - the "squid game", which became in the "country" studio a tug-of-war between the various components of the Bennett-Lapid government, and the appearance of Mansour Abbas as the ace card in the package.

Precisely the formation of the opposition took out of the sketch show its more amusing moments, but what to do when the objects of ridicule no longer hold power a little less in those to enter into them.

Sarah Netanyahu as the Likud version of the killer puppet of the "Squid Game" could have been given up at this stage, especially when it does not really occupy a place in the public discourse these days.

Bennett of Zarchovich,

The references to current culture continued, and in a certain place felt like nothing more than marking V on a list of references mainly for the purpose of proving presence. Crembo on a screwdriver? Check. A minister in the government (in this case Zeev Elkin) who is portrayed as a rapper? A piece that has already been exhausted. Varda and Corinne Gideon are disgusted even without an imitation that will present them even more in being here (although Kitsis' line of "girls, don't quarrel, you don't matter" was accurate), and we also saw more successful language games from Miri Regev's Gortsky imitation than "I'm not alive. I will challenge, I prefer to see the film. " The Shufersal Deal sketch was appropriate but no more than that, and the idea of ​​likening the issue of IDF pensions to the fact of "Fact" about Bnei Gantz's military operation was witty but to a certain extent. This time in the form of an excellent imitation of Mano, Nitzan and a huge cigarette, and a slightly less successful imitation of Karin and Itamar - all from "Wedding at First Sight".

not surprising.

"The Squid Game", Photo: Keshet 12

The best moment in the opening of the new season of "Eretz" was provided this time by Tamir Bar and the excellent high-tech sketch.

While he was horribly predictable (and do not say you did not see for miles the idea of ​​advertising in the dreams of a wounded taxi driver towards the end of the segment, like a gun at the beginning of the campaign), he managed in a few minutes to say something about high-tech employment culture. ", On the absurd conditions and even on the era of Raichel.

Too bad that by the time he arrived we had to come up with a plan devoid of really funny moments, witty gags or even ridiculous.

That's fine, it's just the number one program for the season and sometimes it takes some time to warm up engines.

And perhaps, and this is a pretty reasonable possibility, when anyone who has been attributed evil or interest is no longer in the House of Representatives, there is already much less desire to come and visit.   

Source: israelhayom

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