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"The Cops" is a great series, but can be a lot more than that
The true story on which Keshet's hit series is based is very powerful in itself, and no doubt longed for processing into some screen.
It is also enough to make the series sweeping and fascinating, but throughout it is hard not to shake off the thought that it lacks shades of gray that will give it depth
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Ido Yeshayahu
Monday, 08 March 2021, 22:30 Updated: 22:37
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Excerpt from the season finale episode of "The Cops" (Rainbow 12)
In an interview with Haaretz ahead of the last episode of "The Cops", the creators of the series, Rotem Shamir and Yuval Yefet, said that after so many series centered on anti-heroes, it turned them on to engage in their series with cops who are real heroes.
"There was at least a decade with heroes like Walter White and Tony Soprano, that we got used to, and we felt it was time to tell a different story," they said.
"That justice is on the side of the protagonist. That they are working to protect the right thing - the home and the family. The title 'Classic' accompanied us in all aspects. The references were in films like 'The Night is Ours' by James Gray and 'The Unbiased' by Brian de Palma "I think the story of the filthy protagonist is moral, that you can never know if you like or hate him, has pretty much exhausted itself."
This is a bit of a funny statement, for two reasons.
First, "The Cops" is very reminiscent of an iconic series centered on an explicit anti-hero: "The Defender."
In FX's excellent crime drama, Michael Chiklis plays Vic Mackie, a detective who heads a police burglary unit that uses illegal tools to retaliate against criminals, while a police investigation department tries to expose them, and the criminals themselves bring the war to the detectives' homes as well.
Second, and much more important, Shamir and Yefet's view of the "cops" characters as distinct, "classic" heroes, as they say, betrays what prevents the series from becoming truly great: the absence of shades of gray.
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Classic heroes?
"The cops" (Photo: screenshot, Keshet 12)
The true story on which "The Cops" is based, whose last episode aired tonight (Monday) on Rainbow 12, is very powerful in itself, and no doubt longs for processing to some screen.
Some of the most sensational and seemingly absurd passages the series describes did take place in reality (spoilers), such as firing a rocket at the police station, throwing grenades at detectives and their families and a mourning ad revealing the names of the cops (though not exactly in the format the series presented).
But by and large, this is indeed a classic story, and by that I mean also that it is familiar: the policeman who takes the law into his own hands to arrest or neutralize the criminals.
The “cops” knowingly describe this story in the most direct way and without real difficulties about ethics and morals.
If there is an accusing finger, it is directed at the police establishment that preferred to contain the criminal organization of Michael Moore, ah, Maor Ezra (played by the great play of Shlomi Yifrach), rather than act to overthrow him.
But even so, the "cops" do not regulate an interesting and broad indictment against a system that abandons its people to their fate, but uses this detail as a tool designed to move the plot from point A to point B.
This is a particularly big miss given the particularly difficult and demanding year of the police, and of how its details are perceived by the public.
Plenty of evidence, some filmed, of violent policing in demonstrations, allegations of selective enforcement of Corona's guidelines and so on - has caused the public's trust in the police to erode more and more.
In doing so, even unintentionally, reality itself provides a sober view of the story of cops ignoring the law - an angle that if the "cops" had actually and consciously resonated with it, would have provided itself with vital depth and subtext.
Can we really applaud wayward cops given what we know about those in the real world?
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It's better for her to stick to the suspense scenes.
Tzachi Halevi, "The Police" (Photo: Screenshot, Keshet 12)
This absence hurts the series, which is especially noticeable when it abandons the main story in favor of what happens in the families of the protagonists. Then the weaknesses of sticking to a seemingly classic story stand out. Because when the "cops" are stripped of their action and suspense, they are left with scenes of the detective whose wife took the girl and left for Givatayim, while he, defeated and shattered, seeks solace from the mythological ex. Or in other words: banality. The characters are not developed enough and not interesting enough for us to be appalled by the fate of the marriage of Alon (Tzachi Halevi) and Miki (Shani Cohen), or to be interested in the pregnancy of Kobi (Maor Schweitzer) and Hadar (Liron Vigdor). In fact, there will be those who remembered the names of more than two of these characters after eight episodes in their presence.
The luck of the "cops" is that the story she tells is fascinating and sweeping even if you settle for the surface. This is the way of revenge - hard to miss. They detail basic human emotions that help us identify immediately with the protagonist and his war. Shamir and Yefet ("Fauda") are skilled craftsmen, and this is also evident in "The Cops." Nahariya is aesthetic and beautiful through the series' cameras, the acting is excellent most of the time, the workmanship is planned, and the successful soundtrack loads everything with drama and anxiety.
Even those who know the story in detail can enjoy plenty of suspense and action throughout the season, ranging from the effective to the nerve-wracking (except for the embarrassing scene where a colleague attacks the school security guard with blows), whether the protagonists are facing a murderous crime organization or Their colleagues trying to capture them. In the last episode she even managed to excite, in a scene where the station commander, who most of the time opposed the detective unit's attempts to increase the flames in front of Ezra, came to express his - and the writers' - feelings of appreciation to his men. All of this is enough to make "The Cops" an entertaining watch and a justified hit, even if it's hard to regularly shake off the feeling that she's capable of being much more than that.
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