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Hot's new series, which follows two apartment partners in Tel Aviv, is too reminiscent of clichés about unbearable partners and suffers from characterization problems. Nevertheless, there is great room for optimism in the face of the talents behind it, and mainly thanks to a huge point of light that comes only in the third episode


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I wish "conflicting girls" would realize their huge potential

Hot's new series, which follows two apartment partners in Tel Aviv, is too reminiscent of clichés about unbearable partners and suffers from characterization problems.

Nevertheless, there is great room for optimism in the face of the talents behind it, and mainly thanks to a huge point of light that comes only in the third episode

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Ido Yeshayahu

Thursday, 21 October 2021, 00:27 Updated: Friday, 22 October 2021, 00:26

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Excerpt from "Conflicting Girls" (HOT)

At one point in the mid-nineties, just about every American television tried to create duplicates of "friends."

The comedy's huge success led both the contestants and NBC itself, which aired it, to find the formula that would yield the next hit series that deals with twenty-something single friends who are having fun and loving in the city.

In Israel, too, this inspiration was felt in the form of local products in the 1990s - "Upside Down", "Florentine" and "Puzzle".



That wave comes to mind while watching Hot's new comedic drama, "Conflicting Girls," created by Shir Reuven, one of the most brilliant comedic minds of recent years in Israel, and directed by Talia Lavie, who returns to television for the first time since "Who Gave You a License?" "Zero in Human Relations" and after the fun new movie "One in the Heart". At its core, their new series deals with two apartment partnerships in Tel Aviv. Leahy (Mia Landsman, "Headquarters"), a medical student who currently works at a regional radio station, moves into a new apartment in the same Florentine, which was and remains the relatively-cheap refuge of young people making their first steps in the relatively-large city. Since her cousin (Niv Sultan, "Tehran") who was supposed to be her breeze partner at the last minute, Leahy has to find another, and this comes in the form of Leah (Einat Holland, one of the rookies in "Headquarters"), a mini-crook who knows how and who to maneuver to land on the legs.




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Drifting and passive.

Mia Landsman (left) and Einat Holland, "Conflicting Girls" (Photo: Hot, Yaron Sharaf and Yoav Gross Productions)

Most of the time the match between the two is a monstrous reminder of hell that he is the other, especially one who is doomed to share a roof with him.

The big problem with "Conflicting Girls" is that it's not enough, at least not in the four episodes sent for review (out of ten).

Leah is too passive in front of Leah, allowing her to be a terrible and reckless partner, and the options to deal with the problem are either expulsion or suffering quietly.

There is no middle and no attempt at the middle.

It makes the dynamics between them frustrating and worn out, another copy of the unbearable partner cliché (like the one who lived with Chandler a few episodes when Joey left).



Beyond that, Leahy's character is not really consistent.

Most of the time she avoids action, allowing herself to be sucked into involuntary adventures, both with Leah and separately, such as when she is called up to the reserve even though she has an exemption.

On the other hand, in front of her object of love at work, Inbar (Tali Sharon), Lehi does not hesitate to show assertiveness.

Of course people may exhibit different shades in different situations, but here it seems mostly like a character acting only to advance the situation at hand.

Much of this stems from the feeling that the connection between Lehi and Amber itself is inorganic.

It is hasty and unconvincingly constructed, revealing the mechanics behind the two's choices.

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Spin off required.

"Conflicting Girls" (Photo: Hot, Yaron Sharaf and Yoav Gross Productions)

But there are also real bright spots, and they are especially noticeable in Leah's character. Her background and psychology are fascinating, and in nuances create an underground connection between the two heroines. Already in her first meeting with Leahy, Leah recognizes in her some old-fashioned need that has never been satisfied - to make an earring in the navel - and insists on realizing it for her, even though on the face of it Leahy herself is not really in the section. Just like the faucet from the apartment, the piercing did not happen at the age of 15 because the aunt Shabbat was on her mind at the last minute. With keen senses and a lack of shame, Leah takes advantage of this opening to sneak through to the vacant room in the apartment.



Accordingly, the best episode in the opening cluster is the third, which in a sense presents Leah's original story - revealing what led her to where she is today and what made her who she is.

She returns to her childhood neighborhood to meet her father (Shuli Rand) after a long time of not seeing each other, and her experiences there look like Shalom Aleichem meets the one who stole Monica's identity and made her understand things about herself (a matter that also connects with the second plot in this episode).



Episodes that deviate from the usual stanza have been a regular interest in television in recent years, and usually yield real treasures.

The same thing happens in this case, which comes at a relatively early stage and makes you want it to actually be the series: a funny and soulful story about a crook who uses her skills to help her father in a time of crisis.

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Will they grow up together?

"Conflicting girls" (Photo: Ohad Romano)

Even if we do not win this agile spin-off, the critical thing in the episode is that for the first time (and the only time in the first four episodes) Leah gets to exist as a character in her own right, detached from Lihi. This is something that "conflicting girls" need like breathing air, both to deepen the world she creates and to elevate Leah to something that is not the sum of her annoying qualities. Suddenly the connection between her and Leahy, whose names are even similar, seems two-way, transcending the need of one in the roommate and the other in the apartment; It seems like the beginning of a story - which is also worn, and yet may charm - about two very different young foreign women, who nevertheless become friends and even become allies.



Already her name "Conflicting Girls" emphasizes the developmental status of her protagonists - a bit stuck in high school, that stage where Leahy did not do the piercing and Leah was busy with pressing matters.

Now, through Tel Aviv adventures and the help of the other, perhaps each of them will be able to grow, mature and realize its potential.

And even if not, the point is that "conflicting girls" will do it.

"Conflicting Girls" airs on Sundays on Hot 3 at 8:15 p.m. and on Hot and Udi, starting next week.

The premiere episode is already available on Wii.

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