The series "Children in the Forest" is content to be an excellent thriller
Yes's suspense series operates in the familiar conventions of the genre.
The plot twists are often exaggerated, the dialogues a bit absurd, the cops are super heroes with amazing technical abilities and the bad guys are villains on and so on.
But most of all, the rhythm of "Kids in the Forest" is overwhelming, easy to dedicate yourself to and hold fingers for heroes
Nadav Menuhin
10/02/2022
Thursday, 10 February 2022, 10:16 Updated: 10:29
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Trailer for the series "Children in the Forest" (yes)
Netflix is full of them: determined but complicated detectives who do not play by the rules, in pursuit of serial criminals who face horrific acts of violence - usually near a forest.
In small, desert Israel, there are not too many dense and gloomy forests that invite horror stories, and large-scale murder and violence conspiracies hardly occur here - but here, too, an intensive police series industry is developing, improving and professionalizing from time to time.
This wave, which includes series such as "FMTA", "Absent Case", "Manaich", "Blackspace" and "The Police" - melancholic series that flooded social and systemic decay and researchers' walk on the gray line between the legal and the illegal, culminates with The new series "Kids in the Forest", which starts today (Thursday) Bite. It is more extreme, darker and more frightening, and what do you know - as its name implies, it also has a forest. Netflix will fly on it.
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On the gray line.
Yiftach Klein and Naomi Lvov, "Children in the Forest" (Photo: Vered Adir)
At the center of the plot is Ami (the excellent Yiftach Klein), a commander of a police team investigating a horrific affair of international trade in infants, which begins in Israel and continues to Spain.
The criminal network entices poor women to fly abroad, give birth there and give their children up for adoption - just so they can be sold in Darknet to dubious elements. ), An eccentric street dweller, willing to cooperate provided the police help her find her brother, who was adopted separately from her and disappeared many years ago.
Ami's determination conceals his lack of attention to his loved ones - his second wife (Naomi Lvov), also a policewoman, who has just given birth to their joint daughter and feels lonely in the turret;
And especially his eldest daughter, who is estranged from him, who is addicted to drugs and works in prostitution (Lidor Edri).
Meanwhile, in Spain - on the other side of the investigation, a parallel suspense plot is underway, in which a determined policewoman reveals, despite lack of backing from her chauvinistic commanders, the horrific method of the trade network, while she seeks a white solution that is on the autistic continuum.
The plot, as can be understood, is laden with complicated parent-child relationships.
"Children in the Forest" is a waste of time, and from the very beginning it is almost too continuous in dramatic developments at a dizzying pace.
She does not spare her viewers and hits them with a hammer with all her might: she presents an ugly, violent world, full of cruelty, exploitation and psychopaths - that is, things that may be seen in detective series from cold Europe, but take on a horrible reality in Hebrew.
It's not that easy to watch.
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Not spared the viewers.
Dalit Kahn, "Children in the Forest" (Photo: Vered Adir)
The series works according to all the conventions of the genre, and thus, the plot twists - ambitious, it must be said - are sometimes exaggerated, the dialogues a bit absurd and the discoveries insane, the cops are superheroes with amazing technical abilities and the bad guys are superheroes, criminal minds from hell.
And as is the case with such series - if you have seen enough of them - the plot is also quite predictable.
It must be said of her duty that she does not have a special depth or an attempt to say something more complex about Israeli society, in her defense it must be said that she also does not really pretend to do so, and is content to be an excellent thriller.
Most of all, the rhythm of "Children in the Forest" sweeps the viewers, making it easy to dedicate oneself to it and hold fingers to its protagonists in the face of hardship.
Kahn, the recruited street cowboy, does a lot almost without saying a word, leading along with Klein a gallery of obsessive but touching characters.
The tension is fascinating, and it's just a pity that it's impossible to give one binge for the whole season and get to the solution already.
"Children in the Forest" will probably not change your life, but it is a milestone in the Israeli television industry.
After Danish, German, French and English, it is now possible to also dive into Hebrew into such a dark, dark thriller as it can probably only be in the woods.
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