Moments of Death: The third season of "Nothing Expert" is unbearable to watch - Walla! culture

2021-05-25T02:03:35.656Z

The once-delightful series of Netflix turned into a pretentious and self-made work in its third season, which seems to have been made by an over-enthusiastic film student

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Moments of Death: The third season of "Expert for Nothing" is unbearable to watch

Under the name "Moments of Love", the series that was once Netflix's delightful became in its third season a pretentious and self-made work, which seems to have been made by an overly passionate film student, giving a narrow, shuffling, monochromatic, animal-free and graceful feel

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Not the series we knew.

Lina White (left) and Naomi Aki, "Nothing Expert" Season 3 (Photo: Netflix)

In previous seasons of "Nothing Specialist" Dennis, played by White, was a close friend of the protagonist, Dov. She was a secondary character who bought her world in one of the wonderful episodes of the series, "Thanksgiving" from the second season, which depicted Dov and Dennis regularly celebrating Thanksgiving at her family home over the years, from childhood to the present day, including coming out of the closet to her mother (Angela Bast) . "Thanksgiving" was delightful, exciting, graceful, funny, waiting, rhythmic and heart-expanding, and accordingly won Ansari and Waith the Emmy Award for writing a comedy series, making Whit the first black to win an award in this category.

It all happened in 2017.

Since Ansari got involved with the accusation of a dubious sexual experience and disappeared from the spotlight for a long time (until he returned in 2019 with a special stand-up that also addressed that affair), Go out to restaurants, hang out with friends and travel the world.

These led to a completely different third season of "Expert for Nothing."

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Full minutes of dancing.

"Expert for Nothing" Season 3 (Photo: Netflix)

This time, under the title "Moments of Love", we find Dennis living a peaceful village life with her British wife Elisha (Naomi Aki, "The End of the Fucking World") an hour's drive from the city. Dennis has written a successful book that made her famous, her partner is an interior designer, making their home a particularly aesthetic display of purpose. Ansari himself, the star of the series so far, hardly appears in the new season. He only comes to visit twice and that ends his role in front of the camera. Behind her, however, he is as active as ever: together with White he has written all five episodes of the season and directed all of its own episodes.

There is a point in praising the very idea of applying such an iconic marriage and relationship story as "pictures from a marriage" to a black lesbian couple. This is also not the first time that "Expert for Nothing" has made an explicit tribute to European cinematic classics - the second season opened with a cute homage (in black and white!) To "Bike Thieves".But where is the kindness of that episode and where is what is happening this time.

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Positions the camera far and allows the scene to take place.

Aziz Ansari behind the scenes of the third season of "Expert for Nothing" (Photo: Netflix / Cian Oba-Smith)

"Moments of Love" is not only satisfied with a similar general story, but draws inspiration from almost every element of it, including identical plot moves and gestures at the scene levels. The Swedish source opens with a press interview of the couple - a similar scene can also be found in the opening episode of "Moments of Love". Just as in the original, in the first episode a couple come to visit - Dov and his current girlfriend - whose unsettled relationship serves as a contrast to the apparent harmony between the protagonists. In both series the story spans years, in both there is an engagement with abortion, and the last episode of "Moments of Love" is almost identical to that of "Pictures from a Married Life." The gestures are also evident in the technical choices, like the use of film, a 4: 3 resolution as in the square TVs of yesteryear, and if it was up to Ansari we would also have been required to watch it in a massive device from the 1970s.

Yet there is a particularly technical, and critical, big difference between the two series: "Pictures from a Marriage Life" was characterized by close-ups of its protagonists, while "Moments of Love" is demonstrably avoided almost all the time.

Aside from the fourth episode, which also happens to be the most likely in the season, Ansari and his photographer, Themius Baktakis ("Dog Teeth," "Kill a Sacred Stag"), seem to place the camera on a tripod far from what is happening and simply allow the scene to take place.

A kind of fly on the wall - or on the pantry or on the dresser - designed to increase the sense of realism.

In practice this is unbearable.

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An agonizing feeling of eternity.

"Expert for Nothing" Season 3 (Photo: Netflix)

In fact, almost everything here is unbearable. The third season of "Expert for Nothing" has only five episodes, which coalesce into three hours, and yet they give an excruciating sense of eternity. A huge distance from the pleasure of the previous two seasons, certainly from the canals as in the episode "Thanksgiving". "Moments of Love" seems like an ultra-pretentious and self-fulfilling exercise for an over-enthusiastic film student. Long and tedious scenes where Dennis and Elisha dance together for whole minutes, or do laundry together and separately (yes, the point of these scenes is clear, no, it does not improve them), car headlights illuminate a dark road and so on. And if that's not enough, it's adorned throughout with opera music that is probably supposed to paint the minorities in epic, timeless colors, and in practice only sharpens the ridiculousness of pretentiousness.

All "moments of love" events take place at home and in the yard and a bit in the car and in the hospital.

The original was also very chambery with few locations, which contributed to the feeling of intimacy, but Ansari's choice to look at the heroines from a distance and without movement, makes the series feel narrow, shuffling, monochromatic, devoid of animals and grace.

Just the opposite of everything an "expert on anything" was in the first two seasons.

It might have been easier to accept it if it had been a different series from the same creators.

Although she would still suffer from the same ailments, at least she was not accompanied by the feeling of betrayal in the spirit of a beloved series.

And as for a proper incarnation for "pictures from married life" - let's hope that Hagai Levy and HBO will do her a greater favor.

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