Valentine's Day obliges, Arte rewards its viewers with this Israeli romantic comedy.
A series about the romantic adventures of two 30-year-old “BFFs” (“best friend for ever” or “best friend forever” in French, editor’s note), roommates in Tel Aviv and single.
Dana (Rotem Sela, Best Actress Award at Séries Mania 2023 for the infertility series
A Body That Works
) is a medical student, busy with her guards at the hospital and her internship competition.
Murray (Naomi Levov, discovered in 2018 in the autism comedy
On the Spectrum
) is a screenwriter, tossed between an immature ex, a script to finish and her film classes.
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So close and prey to the same pattern of abandonment that they have become totally emotionally dependent on each other, they end up falling in love with the same boy.
The “troubles” begin, peppered with just the right amount of romance and comedy, most of them perfectly academic, others totally unexpected.
And that’s what makes this series so special.
The screenwriter – the real one – takes care to exploit one by one the codes of a popular but delicate genre and waltzes with it all.
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Through the character of Murray who gives screenwriting classes to earn a living, she mixes the story - her love tribulations - and her commentary - her interactions with the students -, referencing famous works like
Pretty Woman
,
The Life is Beautiful
or
Cinderella
.
From episode to episode (9 in total), she takes the audience on a journey, pushes the game of love and almost coincidences to its climax and offers her story an ending worthy of its characters.
Open and full of hope, but also of questions.
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Popular at Séries Mania 2022,
Dana & Murray
(in English,
Bloody Murray
) is moving, spicy and delightful at the same time.
Season 1 is available on arte.tv until November 16, 2024, in its entirety.
A season 2 has been ordered, in collaboration with Arte.