Experts in Nothing: The Great Mentors of 2021 on TV
2021 was packed with a series that they are really just, ones that we spent hours in front of them without remembering anything about them and even without having much fun in real time.
But there were also series that simply disappointed or even actively shaped us.
Those we loved before and then stumbled upon again, and those who tried something big and missed out on a huge.
And those are names
Ido Yeshayahu, Ilan Kaprov and Ofir Artzi
31/12/2021
Friday, 31 December 2021, 00:00 Updated: 00:24
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The morning program
Original Name:
The Morning Show
Broadcast:
Apple TV Plus
in the 2019 Parade: The 40th
largest testimony to ambivalence at the core of the "Morning Show," lies in the fact that it stars in both the Mental Disappointments and the parade of our favorite series this year. It's entertaining, fluid and fun to watch, but really not a good season, unlike its predecessor. From a series that gave a very contemporary and relevant feel, this time "The Morning Show" became Gilad for a long time. The decision to go back in time and present the early days of the Corona dispersed the mess that the series had well organized the previous time. Instead of the corona tightening the happenings, in practice it only caused the second season to disperse. The various parts of it seem unrelated, roughly sewn together. Patches of attempts to continue the events of the previous season, alongside blatant, often capricious moves that throw the characters into the heart of the new plots.
Worst of all: it seems that the Likud of stories almost completely eradicates the same delicate and wise aspect that made "The Morning Show" a multi-dimensional series.
If we had hoped that the new season would deal with Corona in the same challenging and thought-provoking way in which it dealt with sexual exploitation and power relations - that is far from the case.
In fact, these issues are also being treated with rougher hands this time around, and are mostly done from the angle of the condemnation culture - an interesting issue that is not exhausted here at all.
The second season featured the big dramas, love triangles, people screaming at each other (oh my god, the dumb scene of Alex and Mitch screaming at each other on the drive from the airport in the seventh episode).
Rigid scripts that only try to get from point A to point B, compress the plot with a minimum of layers.
This is what's left over from the "morning show" at the moment: its soap is expensive, attractive and entertaining, but one that is accompanied by feelings of guilt.
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Rough hands.
"Morning Show" (Photo: Apple TV Plus)
Ted Lasso
Original Name:
Ted Lasso
Broadcast:
Apple TV Plus
in the 2020 Parade:
14th place
as a dessert whose sweetness was perfect and then suddenly turned into a powerful saccharine attack with caramel sticking to teeth, "Ted Lasso" completely lost its balance in season two - which culminated in the episode A disgusting Christmas that will not embarrass the sticky ones in the Hallmark movies.
The series has found itself in a whole new place, devoid of conflicts and obstacles almost entirely.
Everyone loves each other, everyone gets along with each other.
Inevitably, it was a flaw in her.
The idea is so cohesive that at its core, the one that made the first season successful and complete, unraveled and had a hard time re-crystallizing despite a few good moments and episodes throughout.
Much of the affection for "Ted Lasso" was a matter of timing.
She landed at the height of the first corona waves in 2020, surrounded by closed closures and streets and feelings of anxiety, and so the overdose of her romantic kitsch landed in just the right place.
But love is a product of relationships, certainly when it takes place in the heart of an area as emotional as sports.
In her second season, "Ted Lasso" did not even try.
Like a gallery of generic Shatterstock images, it hurled at us scene after scene of hugged people, awkward dialogues, easily resolved conflicts, one-dimensional cartoons (Roy Kent) and characters with no gram of human credibility.
At times it seems that "Ted Lasso" really forces us to get excited even if there is nothing, and then again and again, like a juicer that has lost control.
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Full minutes of dancing.
"Expert for nothing" (Photo: Netflix)
An expert on nothing
Original Name:
Master of None
Broadcast:
Netflix
in the 2017 Parade (Season Two):
Second Place (!) As
opposed to "Morning Show" and "Ted Lasso," which more or less kept their line but provided less good seasons, "Nothing Expert "She went in completely different directions that betrayed the spirit and soul of the series.
A few months before Hagai Levy's new adaptation of "Pictures from a Marriage Life" arrived (which also made us turn up our noses), Aziz Ansari turned "Expert for Nothing" into a tribute to the same iconic work by Ingmar Bergman.
From a series that used to be a human and hilarious comedy-drama about friendship and love in New York, it has become an exhausting, pretentious, pretentious and disappointing boredom.
Almost everything in it is unbearable. The third season of "Expert for Nothing" has only five episodes, which coalesce cumulatively into three hours, and yet they impart an agonizing sense of eternity. A huge distance from the pleasure of the previous two seasons. "Moments of Love" seems like an ultra-pretentious and self-fulfilling exercise by an overly passionate film student. Long and tedious scenes where the protagonists dance together for whole minutes, or do laundry together and separately, car headlights illuminate a dark road and so on. And if that's not enough, it's adorned throughout with opera music, which is probably supposed to paint the minorities in epic, timeless colors, and in practice only sharpens the ridiculousness of pretentiousness.
Ansari's choice to look at them without close-ups and without movement, gives the series a narrow, shuffling, monochromatic feeling, devoid of animals and grace.
Just the opposite of everything an "expert on anything" was supposed to be.
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 a feeling of betrayal in the spirit of a beloved series.
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Went out of her way to be corny.
"Jupiter's Legacy" (Photo: Netflix / Steve Wilkie)
Jupiter's Legacy
Original Name:
Jupiter's Legacy
Broadcast:
Netflix
"
Jupiter's Legacy
" was one of Netflix's most resounding and embarrassing failures ever. Produced on a huge budget, as a first swallow a new location based on the comic book worlds of Mark Miller, but canceled after only one season. And no wonder. Who exactly is this series for? A series that on the one hand has an age warning because it features amputated organs, drugs and sexuality, and on the other hand dialogues are so poor that they seem to be intended for those who have never seen television. Alongside this trouble she suffers from such a discouraging plot structure that it is unclear how it is possible that a veteran creator like Stephen S. Dinate - who is in charge of the exciting "Spartacus" and has previously written for series such as "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" - dares to be signed .
One of the ills of this year on television was scripts that zigzagged between different times, and most of the time without it having any need other than the desire to be "complex" and "challenging."
What "Jupiter's Legacy" did was particularly dumb: it presented its heroic journey in the past, even though in the present we have already seen its results.
There was no real reason for that, certainly not over an entire season.
Not that present affairs are more fascinating.
The stories there range from an idea that remains undeveloped to a dull, slow melodrama.
One would have hoped that at least the detailed description in the two timelines the series would take advantage of to create a thought-provoking reception between the now and now, or at least to weave before us fascinating characters that would enter our hearts.
The answer is lol.
It seems that "Jupiter's legacy" has really gone out of its way to be corny, and it has done all this with self-importance as if it were the first ever.
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Sweating from exertion.
"Cowboy Bebop" (Photo: Christy Griffin / Netflix)
Bee Cowboy
Original Name:
Cowboy Bebop
Broadcast:
Netflix
Another expensive and failed adaptation of Netflix that was quickly canceled after one season.
The original "Cowboy Bebop" was a very influential anime series, a sort of western-style soundtrack, film noir and science fiction, whose impact can be seen in creators like Quentin Tarantino, Joss Whedon and Ryan Johnson.
On paper its flesh-and-blood processing sounds so promising: the possibility of re-capturing this spirit and mediating it to a much larger audience.
In practice, in stark contrast to the nonchalance that characterized the original, the result is sweat from effort.
The new "Cowboy Bebop" goes out of its way to recreate the anime look, the fresh shooting angles and the original sets - but in fact it imparts a constant feeling of a child trying to walk in his father's shoes.
Her biggest problem is a horrible villain, Vicious, who looks and is embodied as if he was pulled from a cartoon series of children in the 1990s.
Every moment he is on screen sharpens the grotesqueness that "Cowboy Bebop" is infected with, and even infuses his ridiculous spirit on scenes without him.
Because like the rest of the elements in the series, Vice is wearily ornate in a way that emphasizes how artificial everything in it is.
She has a problematic edit that lingers too much on takeaways, especially moments when the characters react without words.
The game of many of the players is really not good.
At no stage is there a sense of real, physical or emotional risk.
All of this neutralizes the possibility of being really sucked into "Cowboy Bebop".
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An exercise in unsuccessful drama.
"Nine perfect strangers" (Photo: Hollow)
Nine perfect strangers
Original Name:
Nine Perfect Strangers
Broadcast:
Hollow (in Israel on Amazon Prime Video)
This drama looks like a production line product, and to a large extent it is. This is the third series in which creator David E. Kelly and actress Nicole Kidman collaborate (preceded by "Big Little Lies" and "You Should Have Known"), which is also one of the work's top producers, and all cries out for an attempt to replicate proven prestige and a trap for awards ceremonies. But most of the time "Nine Perfect Strangers" is just plain boring. It's even a little funny to see the points where she chooses to end episodes - a kind of highs, or moments that are supposed to be highs, ones that will keep us in suspense until the next episode, and in practice they are not exciting at all and only indicate that the general is in charge.
Unsurprisingly in a work that seems like a duplication of being, there is something very artificial about "Nine Perfect Strangers," and not just because of Kidman's yellow wig and Russian accent.
Given all the forces at work, including a book that has already created the world for them and on which the series is based (and will be published in Hebrew very soon), one could at least expect a cohesive and effective series, but even that does not happen.
"Nine Perfect Strangers" looks like an exercise in an unsuccessful drama, shooting in far too many directions in the desperate hope of hitting something, and missing out on almost everyone.
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A glorious waste.
"Kevin can fuck" (Photo: Jojo Whilden / AMC)
Kevin can fuck
Original Name:
Kevin Can F ** k Himself
Broadcast:
AMC (in Israel on Amazon Prime Video)
Is there any point in being angry about a TV series? probably not. Still, this is probably the most annoying series of the year. Her simple plot - Allison (Annie Murphy, "Shit's Creek") is a housewife from a routine sitcom, who is disgusted with her life and wants change - has been claimed by so many factors that were supposed to make it the most original product in years, but a series of silly decisions crushed it all Its big buzz to the dust of small and deadly disappointments.
First and foremost, she had an important and necessary issue: the disgraceful status of women in American situation comedies. What does "Kevin" do with this concept? Nothing and nothing. Instead of exposing the forgery of the sitcom world, the series chooses to exist in both worlds simultaneously - the sitcom and the "real". This means that in each episode, viewers are exposed for a significant portion of the time to the unbearable plots that take place in the sitcom world and include musty punches, dumb tricks and the other gritty evils of embarrassing sitcoms that every sane person has long since stopped watching.
As a result, the transitions probably become less and less interesting, and are replaced by a sense of hatred and disgust at every sitcom injury.
What happens in the second part of the series, the dramatic one?
Nothing revolutionary you have not seen elsewhere.
The series is dedicated to extreme "solutions" that stink from over-scripting, and the seams between the worlds are losing logic as the season progresses.
True, there is no point or reason to get so upset about a TV series, but it's still annoying that "Kevin can fuck" took an excuse, timing, format and excellent means, and turned them into a series half of which can just be thrown in the trash, and the rest collapses with or without it .
What a glorious waste.
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