The sixth season of the successful series "80s", and in its latest version "90s", opened with a loud shout.
There is a buzz, and there is room to analyze the qualities of the series, but first wisdom will be emphasized: the prevailing principle that a high-rated TV show is often a work of poor quality (and vice versa) - is primitive nonsense.
"The 90s-80s" is a comedy based on memories from an eastern development town where social interactions centered around the S-C-W-N-H.
The boys of the 1970s and 1980s remember a similar series created in the educational television incubator: "Haim Neighborhood."
Her protagonists were mostly Oriental types, such as the shopkeeper Arie Elias, the guide Sasson Gabay and the singer Ofra Haza.
The creators of the series aspired to promote values and language, and therefore pushed aside the existing and emphasized the desired, and not rightly so.
In contrast, the creators of the "90s-80s" who are committed to ratings, sanctified the existing (and distorted it) and abolished the desired.
The result: "Neighborhood Haim" was an educational work but pale and dull, and if not for the captive audience it would have received zero ratings.
In contrast, the "90s-80s" with its many stars, is much more authentic.
Sometimes the viewing experience is bursting with laughter, and sometimes, as Mordi puts it, it is "disgusting-disgusting."
why?
Because the creators in us are ridiculous, self-conscious, bouncy, impulsive, explosive and violent-saturated characters.
Oops.
Exactly the list of symptoms that professors of education have pointed out as distinct characteristics of Oriental cultivators.
The Asaig brothers, what did you do ?!
And what today?
Of all the neighborhood-Mizrahi life, only ethnic enclaves remain, distressed neighborhoods that populate perhaps 20 percent of the entire Mizrahi public (such as the Dalat in Be'er Sheva, Kiryat Moshe in Rehovot, Ir Ganim in Jerusalem, Hatikva in Tel Aviv). Shanikim, single-parent families, the elderly.
The vast majority of the next generation came from the neighborhoods, and live in the middle-class suburbs where communality is conducted on technological platforms.
Many of them traditional, proud of their heritage, tend to the right.
But alongside these you can find quite a few rude young men and women - the result of educational neglect or nouveau riche culture.
The next generation (Eastern middle class) rose up and succeeded, at least financially.
It is a fact that behind the series are advertisers and capitalists who see the center of gravity of the audience as the same 80s boys who later established themselves and formed a market segment with purchasing power.
This audience is not really bothered by the extroverted ethnicity in the series, which has in fact faded due to the deep logic of the Jewish ethos: merging postcards.
And so Mamuka's son (as a type) married Gidi's daughter "the freezer", whom he knew at university.
Their children sometimes watch "90s-80s" episodes as entertainment content that smilingly reflects on the life of a parent or grandparent.
Entertainment but not educational.
The transition from the "Haim neighborhood" to the "90s-80s" is a parable for a broad social change: from the humble, socialist-educating Israel, to the established, leading but also capitalist-vulgar and unbridled Israel.
There is no obligation to localize on one of the poles.
It is important to balance.
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