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In just five episodes, "Trip for Five" has become one of the funniest shows in Israel
Almost six months have passed since the wonderful docu-reality of the travel channel, a leading candidate for the title of "Israel's next cult", came up, and too few people know about it.
In five short episodes you will be able to fall in love, hate, laugh and take care of the fate of the participants, and also win a cathartic and surprising climactic scene at the end.
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Ben Byron Braude
Tuesday, 31 August 2021, 08:33 Updated: 08:49
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In order to crown a program as a commercial success, there is no need for discretion, for this reason the rating data is published every morning, which determines for the TV channels whether the investment was worthwhile or a little less. The business becomes more complicated when trying to determine what is considered a cult - a creation with a small but devout fan base and an entire cultural world created around it that includes jokes for the knowledgeable, from water and what not. "Trip for Five" The docu-reality of the travel channel, whose only five episodes (so far), aired last March and are available to watch on YouTube and YouTube, is a leading candidate for the title of "Israel's Next Cult".
I am not the first to mark "trip" as a phenomenon. Already in April, Einav Schiff, the television critic of Yedioth Ahronoth, referred to her in a box in his column and noted that she was "shouting cult." Even among the Israeli Twitter industry, you can find tweets of people who get into tension just by hearing the name "Rachel Borta" - but here it more or less ends. It's been almost six months since "Trip for Five" came up, and it seems that too few viewers know who Hanit, Carmit, Rachel (in Malra), Jaber and Amit are. A particularly painful miss given the huge success of “Come Eat With Me,” the food reality of Here 11 that was at least an inspiration to its creators, Merav Saad Farkash and Roi Even Tov.
So why is it still worth your while to get to know her?
Certainly not because of the rather simple format, which would seem familiar to "Come" viewers - five Israelis are sent on vacation in the city of Naples in southern Italy.
Each day one participant serves as a guide on an organized trip to the rest of the group, taking them to three stops of their choice.
At the end of the day, team members give a secret score to the guide (yes, still sounds familiar), and whoever gets the highest score at the end of the week wins a two-week vacation in Italy.
The biggest difference in relation to "Come eat with me" is not found in the difference between the worlds of cooking and traveling, but in the absence of the witty narration of Shai Avivi or narration in general.
The lack of remade wit leaves more screen time for the participants themselves, and they, and especially they, make “Trip for Five” the most entertaining cult it is.
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Every good reality is built on this moment: a contestant tells that he gets along with all the people in the world, except for people who do not do / say / love X. Then Cut to: The next contestant who enters is exactly the type that the previous contestant really does not get along with. The five participants of "Trip for Five" were cast in a craft of thought (and quite a bit of sadism) so that they would endlessly shape each of their journey partners. In fact, even though these are five individual contestants, the production cast here are pairs of oil and water, people so different in their essence, that they have nothing but to quarrel with each other, even if it costs them in dropping points.
It starts with Spear, who describes herself as "a glass in the body of a not-so-thin woman," a marketing woman from Netanya (but renting in Tel Aviv) who likes tall Italian men and low humor.
Next to Hanit is Carmit, also known as her superheroine: "The Human Oxymoron".
A woman whose only thing she loves more than talking about her money is talking about how much she hates talking about her money.
Hanit's authentic popularity is like a red sheet (devoid of Swarovski) in the face of Carmit's effort to show that she is the same simple girl from Ashkelon, only with much more money.
Drinking game for viewers: Drink a whip by Aprol Spritz every time Carmit says that she does not care about winning the competition, because she will return to Italy two weeks after the end of the program.
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The second duo is already a real "power-couple" in Ramat El and Peg Bandy - Jaber and Rachel. The first is an international and first Druze spiritual mentor (he claims) one of whose hobbies is beating on a metal jug, as well as producing deep insights from looking at people ("In the previous incarnation you were poor") and endless compliments to himself ("I love you Jaber", "You Stunning Jaber "," You do not need Jaber "). The other is a current nutritionist, a "former judge on the IDF waves" (come on, this is an entrance exam), the woman who wears the most beautiful glasses in Israel, and the one who dislikes most people but especially Jaber ("I can not hear your laughter"). "Trip for five" consists of well, five participants and therefore also cast the young and fun colleague who came to enjoy, walk, get bored and be photographed without a shirt (the semi-erotic shower scene on his business card will not soon be forgotten).
The most interesting part of any reality show is the one left on the editing room, so it's hard to know what was said to the participants that made them so contemptuously to each other, but it totally worked.
Fortunately, and so that it will not be a show based only on hatred, between fights and fights the participants also enjoy and laugh quite a bit.
Everyone takes the group members to visit places that interest him, with zero thought as to whether it will interest his / her target audience.
Thus Rachel is asked by Jaber why the statue of Venus stands in this particular position and replies "I do not want to answer you", and Carmit has to explain to Hanit that in a two Michelin star restaurant (above) one should speak quietly and not "make a neighborhood".
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In just five half-hour episodes, you will fall in love, hate, laugh and worry about the fate of the participants.
And perhaps most important of all - to win a cathartic climactic scene that comes right in the final minutes of the last episode, and will leave you stunned (for real) and with a desire for more.
The Travel Channel hostel is a modest house, not to mention poor, but do yourself a favor, while you wait for the next season of "Come Eat With Me" also give "Trip for Five" a chance, tell friends about it, and who knows, maybe one day We will see new episodes of this candy.
And one last request: that someone already cast Rachel for another reality show, I'm starting to experience withdrawal symptoms.
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