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The actors are great and the direction is wonderful, but they also do not save "Transparent"
HOT's new sketch program has some huge benefits.
A cast that includes, among others, Gila Almagor, Tiki Dayan and Eli Yitzpan;
Directing, photography and art are truly admirable, and all with one great brilliant idea behind it.
Only none of this can save mediocre writing
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Transparent - series
Guri Alfi
Yuval Samo
HOT
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Ido Yeshayahu
Monday, 18 January 2021, 00:00
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Part of the basic experience of watching TV is the frequent encounter with not very good content.
It's normal, it's happening.
But occasionally you come across a bad piece of the kind that makes the heart sour.
Such is "Transparent," HOT's new series.
Its concept promises: an invested satirical sketch program focusing on some of the company's fringe figures - security guards, cleaners and a host of contractor workers - the people we tend to pass by and the system loves to knock, while themselves trying to find ways to improve positions, even at the cost of knocking the other.
Great potential for both statement and serrated comedy.
Beyond the initial idea, the talent concentration of "Transparent" alone is glorious and impressive.
The poor heroes are played by Guri Alfi and Yuval Samu, Eli Yitzpan is their abusive boss, Samu's mother is played by Gila Almagor with a curly wig, and Tiki Dayan is a purposeful matchmaker.
In addition, the directing (Eli Ben David), the photography (Itzik Portal) and the artistic design (Yael Komrovsky) are simply phenomenal.
"Transparent" is filmed in real locations, most of which are swords, and with an artist's hand, this misery is as beautiful as a picture.
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Magnificent cast.
Yuval Samu and Gila Almagor, "Transparent" (Photo: PR, Alon Maor, HOT)
The series also hangs in tall trees.
Every sketch in it opens with a quote that ostensibly defines the next few minutes;
Starting with those of giants like Hanoch Levin and Yehuda Amichai and ending with more modest legends like The Pale Tracker or Danny Sanderson.
Of all these, Levin is undoubtedly the main inspiration of "Transparent".
Like him, the new series tries to distill human misery into a poetic satire full of wisdom and savagery.
At the end of each episode, the characters perform an Israeli musical classic, one that serves the general theme, with a new arrangement and dramatic staging.
If this format sounds familiar to you, it's because it's almost identical to that of "We're on the Map," HOT's sketch show that sent arrows into the Israeli sports world.
Like her, "Transparent" was created by Ben-David, Adar Mirom and Omri Amit (in this case the last two are signed alone on the scripts), both in which each sketch opens with quotes and in which each episode ends with a song.
And unfortunately - and really much grief - "transparent" suffers from the same "we are on the map" ailments.
The pretension and promise of the new plan shatters to pieces in the face of its basic miss.
Based on the first three episodes submitted for review (out of ten), the script just doesn’t come close to the peaks it is supposed to reach.
On the contrary, it pulls everything down.
Slackness that is evident in both macro and micro.
Contrary to the clever premise of the series, the idea behind most of the sketches is worn from the first moment, and the writing in them relies on a sequence of lazy punches.
Some of them can be identified coming from miles away, others just not funny, the vast majority of them both.
For example, someone tells of his bad condition with a host of exaggerations such as "I slept in a closet for two years, on a hanger," or another who resents a match he received: "She had a lovely smile, but no teeth."
This is the level.
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The position is dramatic.
"Transparent" (Photo: Screenshot, HOT)
The leaks highlight the weak points of the format object.
Sketch shows have recurring roofs, that's part of the deal.
A similar format that is filled with fresh, similar but different jokes.
But in this case, in the absence of successful punches, the use of recessed roofs also seems like an easy and uninspired choice.
The boss (Yitzpan) is a terrible person who will do anything to take advantage of his employees, so every sketch looks like with him.
The matchmaker (Dayan) will try to stab Aviel with the worst options behind her, as every sketch with her looks like.
It is a recurrence that detracts from the kindness we might have given to the "transparent" elsewhere.
For example, Eliav (Alfi) and Dudi (Samu) are more or less in the same boat, but there are quite a few differences between them.
One smiles and is much more innocent, the other is cunning and shrewd.
One is an adult single, the other is divorced and the father of a girl who lives with his mother.
And yet, in two separate episodes, each of the protagonists meets up with another childhood friend for an up-to-date conversation, and revisits his resume to make it sound much more impressive.
Exactly the same scene that we have seen a thousand like it before, and without anything that will renew or refresh it.
The third episode of "Transparent," which will air next week, nevertheless manages to inspire some hope.
It deals mostly with Eliav's attempts to find a mate, and ends in an intriguing way that raises the question about the continuation of the story.
There's something about it that raises the question of whether it would not have been better for the series to be an ordinary comedy drama.
One that is free from the need to push a forced and off punch every few seconds, but simply focuses on its protagonists and their stories with more patience.
As it is now, "Transparent" is frustrating in a way that no Star Power or aesthetic will be able to cover.
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It would have been better to focus on them without racing for punches.
"Transparent" (Photo: Screenshot, HOT)
"Transparent" airs on Sundays and Mondays at 8:30 PM on HOT3.
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