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"Hit and Run" may not become a global sensation like "Fauda", but it is polished, elegant and fascinating
Even if at times "hit and run" looks like a familiar and banal nineties thriller, and despite a faltering start, its virtues regularly overshadow the shortcomings.
Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff once again demonstrate their talent for embroidering blood-curdling moments, this time in a slightly different way that indicates versatility, as part of an interesting conspiracy story
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Lior Raz
Avi Issacharoff
Netflix
Ido Yeshayahu
Friday, 06 August 2021, 00:00
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Trailer for the series "Hit and Run" (Netflix)
It is requested to attribute "Hit and Run" as Netflix's first Israeli series, the first to be created by Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff for the streaming giant, but this is not accurate. The Israeli duo is a driving force that conceived the series, produced it, wrote several episodes, and in the case of Raz also stars in it alongside many local actors, but the two did it with another TV duo - Don Prestwich and Nicole Yurkin, who actually directed " Hit and run". The two are the oldest pair of women writers on American television, who together have written and produced for series such as "Chicago Hope," "Carnival," "Battlestar Galactica" and "The Killing."
"Hit and Run," which airs today (Friday) in full on Netflix, is a joint creation of these two duos, each coming from so many different countries and industries.
Accordingly, there is an interesting resonance between the union behind the scenes and the series itself.
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There is a storm under the ice cap.
Lior Raz, "Hit and Run" (Photo: JoJo Wilden / Netflix)
The series follows Segev Azulai (Raz), an Israeli tour guide who is married to Daniel (Canadian actress Kaylin Um), a dancer in Batsheva who immigrated to Israel from the United States. The day before Daniel is scheduled to fly to an important audition in New York, she is run over to death in an accident - you guessed it - hit and run. With the help of his police cousin (Moran Rosenblatt, "Paper Wedding", "Doubles"), a grief-stricken back soon discovers that his wife's death is not as accidental as it seems at first, and that he and his family, including his young daughter Ella (Neta Auerbach), are in danger.
Grief becomes revenge. Segev goes to New York to find the culprits, and finds himself in a tangle of conspiracies and secrets. Some are planted in Israel, such as the mysterious man who is around Daniel time and time again (Lior Ashkenazi), and some are spreading abroad while Segev enlists his old friend Ron (Gal Toren, "the cook") to help him with the task, and enlists the help of an investigative journalist (Sana Leith). Estate, "the affair") that the two have a common past with her.
The big flaw of "Hit and Run" is evident in its beginnings: it takes time to start.
The first two episodes, which for some reason are also the longest of the nine that make up the first season, devote much more time to a slow and not very interesting drama.
Flashbacks from the shared lives of Segev and Daniel, her dance pieces, his fresh mourning.
Their purpose is clear - the extent and depth of the loss must be established in order to mold a purpose in the subsequent journey.
But it is not really required, and certainly not in such a concentration.
To add insult to injury, and as a sort of admission at this weak point, "Hit and Run" opens with the sick evil that characterizes far too many series nowadays: an action-packed future scene followed by going back in time to explain how we got there.
The good news is that the series is getting better, especially in its second act.
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Pressure Cooker.
Gal Toren, "Hit and Run" (Photo: JoJo Wilden / Netflix)
On the face of it, there are not many similarities between "Hit and Run" and the previous series created by Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff, "Fauda". It is a direct suspense and action drama that deals with the experiences of an Israeli undercover unit against the background of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while the new one is already in the realms of connection theories and relations between friendly countries - Israel and the United States. Nonetheless, there are some identical elements between the two series, and they even get sharper as the first season of "Hit and Run" progresses.
Even if Lior Raz did not play the protagonist in the two series he created, Segev's character imagines Doron Kabilio in "Fauda." In both cases it is a man-man who was formerly a military fighter and today, at the beginning of the story, lives in a pastoral corner with his family and with a much calmer occupation. In both series, though it may not necessarily seem so at first, there is a place of honor for some of the most basic layers of the craft of intelligence. and on top of everything,Both works manage to captivate the screen thanks to their ability to create a nerve-wracking pressure cooker.
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"Hit and run".
Moran Rosenblatt, "Hit and Run" (Photo: Corina Keren / Netflix)
One of the things that Fauda excelled at was the suspenseful engineer in scenes where her protagonists were at the heart of a hostile area.
Throughout her three seasons, Raz has repeatedly illustrated Issacharoff's talent for weaving blood-curdling moments, ones in which the wrong move may expose the characters while they are surrounded by elements seeking harm.
"Hit and Run" once again demonstrates this skill, but in a different way that makes it clear that the two know how to apply it to other shades in the genre.
This time, the threatening level of anxiety is being replaced by a feeling of paranoia.
Even in the more relaxed first episodes of "Hit and Run," the moments when it is apparent that Segev is caught up in a larger story than him are well made, slowly enveloping the protagonist with increasingly dangerous question marks.
The series presents it all with bubbling restraint.
Increases the sense of persecution all the time, occasionally the camera watches what is happening from a distance, as if lurking, or as a peek at the heroes outside the huge windows of office buildings.
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It takes her time to get started.
Lior Ashkenazi.
"Hit and run" (Photo: Netflix)
It is difficult to underestimate the contribution of the series' soundtrack, by the British composer Peter Raibren, to the whole and in particular to its elegant garnet.
The melody of the theme represents it in its entirety: creeping under the skin, an evil grove and yet melancholy and beautiful.
This packaging upgrades the "hit and run" all the time - on the one hand it aligns with the hero's composure, on the other hand it emphasizes that under the ice cap there is still a storm.
Thus, even though at times "hit and run" looks like some familiar and banal nineties thriller (perhaps the New York detective with the fiddle who investigates Segev's exploits contributes to this), her virtues regularly overshadow the shortcomings.
The action is compelling, the twists make sense, the parts of the intricate story connect as it progresses, and more than once even touching.
Even if it is not at all certain that "Hit and Run" will become a world cult creation like "Fauda", it is undoubtedly a step in the right direction for its creators.
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