Marriage at First Sight: Ben's frustration is understandable, but there's no reason to blame Maayan for it.

Just himself

"Wedding" couples go on a joint vacation followed by a moment before the decisions.

Maayan and Ben again encounter Grandma Leah's magical power on the way to a mock idyll, Moshe and Mai invent a quarrel on the long way to the Dead Sea, and Katya takes out on Lior her fear of snakes.

Ophir Sagersky is already waiting to sit down

Ofir Sagersky

14/07/2022

Thursday, 14 July 2022, 08:33 Updated: 08:47

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Wedding at First Sight, Son and Maayan (and Grandma Leah) (Keshet 12)

The couples' last joint vacation is ahead of us, just before they part ways and cook around the fateful decision - whether to take a campaign for kitchens or sofas.

In this episode we accompany MM, Katya and Lior and Maayan and Ben, all determined to quarrel and all succeeding in varying degrees, an inspiring lesson on the power of will. We also meet Grandma Leah and her age-old wisdom, through which we will discover why "We did not learn from the mistakes

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May and Moses

Another normative morning opens with Moshe in a photo of old May, who will one day discover all these documentaries, a total of three and a half hours long, alongside strands of hair kept in a jar.

For a change, I will end here with the theme of cruelty, because I am under the impression that Moshe's intentions are good.

Besides, if May enjoys all his nonsense, who are we?

And you know how much I love Halin.

According to Moshe, he is a bit of a lover, and cynicism aside - what a sweetness.

Too bad the appraiser does not hear.

A few days before the decisions, they travel to a shared weekend in a pampering hotel, or in the language of production, "a last chance to quarrel in front of cameras." -City, an annoying game even without extras. May flows with him on the raffles and that's her right, but what crime have we viewers, who broadcast all this unnecessary saga to us?

Many to dispel boredom.

Moshe and May, "Wedding at First Sight" (Photo: Screenshot, Keshet 12)

Moshe bothers May when he is bored, but it is impossible to enter an entire trip with jokes, and he activates his second default - the celebration of the "process", for its beauty and difficulties, Yada Yada Yada.

May also rummages in the back of her mind, pulling out a fear of living conditions in a hostel that awaits them, even though a hostel is not waiting for them at all.

According to Moshe May, the atmosphere is cloudy, and he shouts at it to enjoy the view in order to improve it.

May's "good spoons" anger him, and it is not clear why, because the accommodation is at the expense of the production and it is not good in any way, but a production choice designed to serve its needs.

Sometimes it seems that Moses is in such thanksgiving (oh, people who are in thanksgiving) for the good he has received, that he forgets that no one is here for altruistic motives, not even the tattooist who fell victim to the prankster.

Everyone is there because Rainbow 12 found them used to lubricate the rating machine.

In any case, I would not take Moshe and May's quarrel too seriously.

In fact, even at that moment, it did not seem to me that any of them took themselves so seriously.

What happened is this: for Tel Avivians, a trip to the Dead Sea is experienced as a flight to New York - only without the New York at the end.

Unconsciously, it seems that May and Moses were looking for something to quarrel with if only to dispel this terrible boredom, and managed to produce a quarrel out of nothing really successfully.

In the visibly non-hostel hotel, Moshe apologizes to May for the quarrel they invented together.

They come to the realization that the main thing is that they have each other, but a pool in the room will not hurt.

"What fun not to have to mingle with the common people," May jokes.

"I most like to mingle with the common people," says Moshe, who always hugs the brats in Rabin Square.

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On the brink of an abyss.

Katya and Lior, "A Wedding at First Sight" (Photo: Screenshot, Keshet 12)

Katya and Lior

An entire season we heard Lior and Katya talk about the amazingness of their relationship, but say, where is the relationship itself?

Anyone seen it?

Sometimes it seems to me that Katya and Lior's relationship is only made up of love quotes that Lior copied from graphics sent on the family WhatsApp.

In their current attempt to understand the secret of their wonders, Katya says, "I am the most authentic person there is, I do not do drama."

To remind you, in the previous episode it turned on Lior because he dared not express complete disgust from their three days separately.

This is not a non-dramatic silence, but that Lior fluttered after her on a level that left her no room to be disappointed.

Still, after a month and a half together, the drama begins to come out of it - and precisely in the unexpected moments.

Say, when she thinks of snakes, while in a closed car and driving.

Lior has no idea if there are snakes in the north or not, he assumes yes, because they are part of this Teva package deal, but also assumes that the chances of meeting them are low.

Maybe a snake will not bite her on this trip, but Katya actually spits on Lior venom on Lior and in quantities, as if he himself is to blame for the existence of reptiles and arthropods.

What, drama?

I am?

No way.

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No drama (?!).

Katya and Lior, "A Wedding at First Sight" (Photo: Screenshot, Keshet 12)

Then, in the middle of the road - a real drama: Lior almost drives them to doom, and gets stuck with the car as it slides in the air, on the verge of an abyss.

This is exactly what Katya responds to, "It's not your fault from my mother," although it's quite his fault, but the really impressive composure is of Lior getting into the car for the rescue.

When he's risking his life Katya is already back to make annoying remarks.

It seems to me that this is how all the negative emotions are expressed in her, because with so much apparent voice, she can not just express fear.

It is always accompanied by some rage, and with no other person around, this rage is localized on Lior.

Luckily he is not interested in her moods, certainly not now, having survived the horror.

As you know, there is nothing like a slight danger to life from time to time to strengthen the relationship and passion.

The adrenaline, the action, the reminder of the finitude of life - everything merges into a stormy fling, and if it can be calibrated in a quality hotel, what good.

At a good time they arrive at the estate, and Lior can continue to get excited about the woman he got on Amazon, a genetic engineer for their future daughter.

"Children we do not choose," he reassures, "each other yes."

I loved Lior's accident.

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There is an "Amale" connection.

Matan, Guy and Maayan, "Wedding at First Sight" (Photo: screenshot, Keshet 12)

Maayan and Ben (and the grandmother, and Guy, and Matan)

After refusing to find love in Ben, Maayan begins to give work towards shared parenting with Matan and the appendix.

"When I realized that the problem was with him and not with me - wow what a relief," Matan talks about Guy in the third person, as if he himself was the child who was dragged with them for a picnic.

So far I was sure that Maayan and Matan had come to terms with their fate and finally separated the confused from the picture, but the wonder and wonder - a reversal.

According to Guy, there is an "Amale" connection, Matan is the perfect man for him and he is happy.

Say, what did we miss?

Maybe sex, because it also turns out that they sleep spoonfuls all night, and there is no explanation that will convince me that you can sleep in this position without going to bed.

Maayan clings to them to convince herself that her and Ben's relationship went through the same process, but a scene later chanting in the car, "What's all this love story worth," sends Ben 44 hints. Worlds, and it's good that way, because he's going to need those powers when he gets to Grandma Leah.

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Does not see with the eyes.

Grandma Leah with Maayan (Photo: screenshot, Keshet 12)

If there are successful castings this season, they are undoubtedly of the grandmothers.

Match me between Katya's grandmother and Ben's grandmother, send them on a trip around the world or bake sourdough bread, I do not care - just let me watch this magic over an entire season.

What an abundance of determination, boldness and swag that belongs only to women aged eighty and up.

Such is Grandma Leah, who fell in love with Maayan on the eve of the wedding and accepts her as if they had gone through elementary, high school, internships, world war and two incarnations.

The chronicle is known in advance: again a family member presses, again a kind of catches a ride on the wave, again a son just gets scared and walks away.

But Grandma Leah does not see with her eyes, and she throws on a kind of heavy artillery in the form of silver jewelry, who knows what they went through and in what holes we were flooded in order to survive wars and reach their destination - in the arms of a reality bride.

Ben's biggest nightmare comes true before his eyes, and a kind of awareness of it, but for gifts it is not nice to refuse and especially if they are vintage.

Besides, she's having fun.

Grandma Leah picks up, what can not be said about Ben and his sour face sent to the butterfly in the kitchen with cookies to leave them alone.

Grandma Leah recognizes a gym class, and begins to sniff around the nature of the relationship.

"You wait and wait and it does not come," she dubs Maayan, because there is no time to waste and no eggs.

"Do you want a son to love you? Do not show him that you love him. Even if you are burned from within."

Maayan's breath is taken away.

A mythical horror hovers over it like the voice of an ancient prophecy.

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A hug from a distance screen.

Ben VeMa'ayan, "Wedding at First Sight" (Photo: Screenshot, Keshet 12)

Back from there, Ben criticizes Maayan for the quick rapprochement between her and Grandma, as if she had a Sei here.

He claims temporary insanity with Grandma Leah while handing over her jewelry, but misses out on a huge one.

Leah is sharper than him and sort of together, which is exactly what scares her.

She is one of those grandmothers who at one glance mentally undresses you, and reads your soul in one scan while you are still studying the alphabet.

But Ben is sure he is the responsible adult in the situation, and mentions that it is important to "manage risks", talking about human relations in terms of the investment world.

If he gets into his son's shoes for a moment, he's right - everything in this show is excessive and too fast.

This is the format.

Ben apparently signed him - mind you - without risk management, and his frustration is legitimate.

What is illegitimate is to blame Maayan for this frustration.

Just as Lior did not plant snakes in the north, so Maayan did not establish the "wedding" rules.

In light of this crisis, the trigger and his partner return to Danny, and Ben, as usual, embraces Maayan in stark contrast to the harsh statements hurled at her.

In the worlds of close communication, it is customary to encourage loving contact during a time of dispute, but something here simply feels wrong.

The hug does not really express closeness, but rather screens the distance that lies beneath it, which is actually quite the opposite.

If one more time I hear Ben, our contemporary Descartes, "put question marks" on things, I'll knock myself an exclamation mark in my head.

According to him, it is difficult for him that every time they talk about him, Maayan attracts the conversation to her - but I do not really understand what he is talking about.

Is there an episode where Ben didn't get to voice his fears?

In fact, after this episode I'm not sure I've ever heard a topic of conversation other than Ben's fears.

"What happened to my mother?", He asks her on the way back from there.

It is not clear whether it is the editors or the people, but the "wedding" characters have a tendency to throw harsh truths at each other and then act as if nothing happened, see the entry Limor, The Toilet Affair.

"I know I'm complex and you have to deal with sailing," he softens her, and a kind of volunteer immediately deals with this complexity, leaving behind Grandma Leah's golden advice.

Sublime I understand why Maayan is still so recruited to contain Ben.

In a relationship, everyone sacrifices something and gets something, but what kind has she already received from a son other than a huge stock of question marks?

Not even choruses have been baked there since the wedding.

They close "Perfect Evening" while a mock idyll, and thank God, on Shabbat decisions.

Who will give and stretch less than this relationship.

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