"Echo of Your Voice": A tribute to a coop or drama about a father-son relationship? | Israel today

Seeing with your own eyes the unrealized potential, and feeling up close the intensity of the success you have almost reached, can be a depressing and frustrating matter, as all the boys and girls of.

Take for example the character of Kobi Shemer from the new musical drama series here 11, "Echo Your Voice", imprisoned somewhere between the historical success of his late father, a rockstar from the seventies with Einstein's face, and the erupting talent dripping from his teenage son, who goes on to star in poetry reality.

Then, not only does the protagonist have to internalize that he will never be able to step into his father’s huge shoes, but he also realizes that the family talent has probably skipped a generation.

In short, and we knew this before, being a "son of" is a very filthy bag.

On the film in which the descendants of the successful live, the series "Echo Your Voice" is built, which skips between the present and the past and tells a story about three generations from one family, the sensitive relationship between men and the effects of fame.

Everything is wrapped in original songs written by Shlomi Shaban for the characters, which are played by, among others, Or Amrami Brockman, Itamar Rothschild, Shaul Luria, Shmuel Vilozny and others.

However, just as Kobe Shemer's career refuses to rise and he fails to come close to realizing his potential hidden in the genes bequeathed to him by his artist, genius and unsettled father - so too does this series try and try, but it too does not get where it wants to go.

Although the characters are carefully constructed, intriguing and realistic, the modest frame story holds with difficulty, but the scenes are not uniform in their level, the script is mediocre and the series conveys a blatant instability.

For some top actors this is a first dramatic role, which is noticeable at times.

But at certain moments they suddenly transcend themselves (especially Rothschild in the lead role), and precisely then, flat dialogues inserted that prevent the scenes from flourishing.

So on the one hand we have melancholy and absorbing ballads made by Shlomi Shaban, which provide a pompous atmosphere for a story of the above kind, and on the other hand - even the chosen name, "Echo Your Voice", is not attractive and attractive enough, and perhaps only manages to imply that the series includes several scenes Boring and not baked.

Thus, after watching three of the ten episodes (it airs on Mondays and Tuesdays here), it is impossible to really understand how much of its inherent potential it will be able to realize.

Right now, the potential is scattered between a parody of musicians from the seventies, a nostalgic tribute to the coop gang, a critique of the culture of admiration, a deep drama about father-son relationships, or actually dissolving into the melancholy crisis of the main character.

Yes, that character who is supposed to internalize sometime because in this mess of her life - she will no longer be able to realize the potential that everyone saw in her.