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2021-03-09T21:01:35.584Z


HOT's new comedy-drama follows three roommates who get involved in the drug trade, and like them exhibits considerable immaturity when it comes to the underworld. She compensates for these problems with graceful characters with great chemistry, and an eye-opening look at a strange and interesting world that takes place in the heart of Tel Aviv.


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Even if "Naps" is lame at times, the magic and its main star cover everything

HOT's new comedy-drama follows three roommates who get involved in the drug trade, and like them exhibits considerable immaturity when it comes to the underworld.

She compensates for these problems with graceful characters with great chemistry, and an eye-opening look at a strange and interesting world that takes place in the heart of Tel Aviv.

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Ido Yeshayahu

Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 00:00

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Trailer for the series "Naps" (HOT)

In 2016, a cute Myslon burst into consciousness with her debut feature, "Not Here, Not There."

The comedic drama, written and directed by Hamoud, dealt with the lives of three young Arab women living together in Tel Aviv, and illuminated an unfamiliar corner in the lives of Israeli Arabs.

The three are trying to fulfill themselves in the face of the expectations and traditions of their families, as well as the racism of Israeli society even in a liberal city like Tel Aviv.



Five years later Hamoud returns with the next new project, which can almost be considered a spin-off of "Not Here, Not There".

Not only did two of the three stars of "Nafas", the new series - and the first one she created - appear in supporting roles in that film, but their characters had the same names - Case (Riyad Suleiman) and Saleh (Ayman Deo).

These two join Al Warda (Maisa 'Abd al-Hadi, "Dead for a Moment", "Tel Aviv on Fire") as three roommates in Jaffa, whose financial situation is so bad that they decide to serve as drug dealers on the mission of the head of a crime family (Salim Dow, "Arab Work" "), Mediated by one of his men (Ala Daka," Fauda ").



As can be understood from this summary, despite the flirtation between the two projects, there is a big difference between the genres.

"Naps," whose premiere episode aired yesterday (Tuesday) on HOT, is a comedic crime drama.

Assuming that Hamud has never gotten involved with scary criminals, her exit from the comfort zone is welcome.

Too many artists in Israel cling to the seller in their work, so this very exception is refreshing.

Nevertheless, based on the first couple of episodes sent for review (out of ten), the collection of genres of "naps" is not uniform in its level, and naturally, the immaturity is evident when it comes to the elements of crime.




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Maisa 'Abd al-Hadi, Riyad Suleiman and Ayman Dao, "Naps" (Photo: Screenshot, HOT)

Already in the first episode, the way in which the three protagonists roll into this occupation is not reasoned or reasonable to the need.

All they want is to hang out in the evening in their apartment, but a quarter of an hour later they find themselves in front of a threatening drug baron.

In another puzzling scene (the three are arguing in the bathroom while one of them shit) they agree to go on an adventure.

"Naps" makes it clear from the first moment that each of the heroes is in financial distress, but from here to this jump the road is long and unfounded.



It does not end here (easy spoilers for the second episode).

The first steps the three take in the field give them a touch of inexperience when it comes to negligence, but in fact the series is the one that treats them with negligence: one of them is a free seller in a rival gang club as if he has never seen a crime movie;

And if on that you can still skate, the other, at another club, just leaves his jacket full of money and drugs on the chair and goes to the dance floor.

come on.

When the three later make a force at a busy street party, the cops get right up to them, but the protagonists manage to escape from them quickly and easily under the hustle and bustle, leaving the cops surprisingly planted in their place.

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Conquering chemistry.

"Naps" (Photo: Screenshot, HOT)

It is difficult to know how and if these things will align in the following chapters.

It is quite possible that these are just birth pangs, that both the series and the protagonists will rub in the new gig.

The big advantage of "Naps" is that its other components cover everything right now.

As in Hamoud's film, here too Tel Aviv is photographed great through the lenses of Itai Gross - a colorful, attractive and cosmopolitan bubble, at least ostensibly.

The very glimpse that the series gives to the world of characters who do not usually tan the screens, injects it with a huge anthropological interest.

The criminal angle places the heroes between the hammer and the anvil, between a financial abyss and bad people with guns, which to some extent reflects the life of this gang as they routinely.

People who are, well, neither here nor there, crammed into their place between tradition and rejection, politically by their very existence - especially when the plot takes place in 2008, with "Cast Lead" in the background - and yet are present and trying to live and make a living and fall in love.



Beyond that, "Naps" is simply gracefully laden.

All three of her protagonists are cute and funny.

Although they come from different and different places - Varada from the "Nazareth aristocracy", Case "Falah" from Taibeh, Saleh was denounced from his family because he is gay (and still goes out with a Jew, but "ours" because he is of Egyptian descent) - there is captivating chemistry and fun to be with. .

Above them all shines' Abd al-Hadi, the real star of the series.

Varada in her role is armed with tons of charisma, charm, courage and sex appeal.

Her character spreads from this abundance over the entire "Naps", making her a series that despite its flaws is hard to resist.

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Charisma, charm, courage and sex appeal.

Maisa 'Abd al-Hadi, "Naps" (Photo: Screenshot, HOT)

Two episodes of "Naps" air every Thursday on HOT3 at 10:15 PM and on HOT VOD.

The first episode is already available.

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