Trailer for the third season of "Manaich"/here 11
It's already almost a cliché, but it's unavoidable: almost everything we encounter on a daily basis, directly and indirectly, is still seen through the filter of October 7th.
Innocent song lyrics, children's drawings, movies and commercials - almost every image itches some trigger.
In this reality, a dark crime series like "Manaich" looks like an escapist and nostalgic postcard from a different Israel.
Brother, those beautiful days!
That sweet routine of corrupt police, internal politics and all-pervading rot!
In relation to the news, this is almost a comforting series.
The hit series of the corporation, after two wonderful first seasons that excelled in great acting, sweeping plot twists and a bitter but parodic look at the Israeli criminal world and the law enforcement system, returned last night for a third season, and among it the veteran package of detective Izzy Bacher (Shalom Assig) and co.
Bacher, a figure who is already in the pantheon of Israeli television, is the man to look up to now: the one who insists on justice, despises hypocrisy and hypocrisy, who falls and gets up and falls and gets up and yet continues to fight as long as he has strength in the face of a cynical and cynical world.
This is a commodity that is in demand right now, perhaps more than ever.
Shalom Assig, "Manaich" season 3/here 11
The third season finds us after Barak Harel (Amos Tamm) is forced to act as a police agent/state witness, and atone for his sins by incriminating the Prime Minister.
Meanwhile, the corrupt police officers he led get involved in the murder of a criminal and his cover-up, which re-enters the picture Tal Ben Harosh (Liraz Hammi), who is determined to fight whoever hurt her in the previous season.
In the meantime, she recovered, weaned herself off the painkillers and started a new relationship, but old sediments continue to float in her as well.
Some notable characters from the previous seasons are missing here, for example Yerushalmi, the dedicated investigator from the tax authorities, has meanwhile disappeared without a trace.
On the other hand, the police officer Yulia Zuckerman (Diana Golby), gets more volume.
It is too early to understand all this going from the first two episodes sent to journalists.
On the face of it, the constant dynamic of cat and mouse between the police and the corrupt policemen, as well as the prosecution games in the Prime Minister's files, will continue to be played on the big chessboard of "Manaich". Routine, but still fascinating, violent and original, and at a very high level. And yet, There is one significant difference in the third season that is worth dwelling on: this is no longer the odyssey of Izzy Bacher, but the story of the fall and fall of Barak Harel.
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Amos Tamm, "Manaich" season 3/here 11
In the previous seasons, the main focus of the series concerned Izzy's Sisyphean struggle with the systems and his former friends.
In the first two episodes of the new season, he is just another full-fledged character, and the focus is given to Barak, who closes everything on him - and Amos completed another great performance.
In an attempt to manipulate the whole world, he is pushed further and further into a corner, getting more and more entangled with all parties, to the point of a mental breakdown.
It's a deep dive, at the end of which there's really no way out - and it seems that even he, who always manages to evade and twist reality to his advantage, won't succeed this time.
It will be interesting to see how the most interesting and internalized emotional axis of the series will develop - the complicated relationship between Izzy and Barak.
The shift in focus between the two corresponds to the change in Israel's mood - from an angry society fighting for its image, to a depressed country seeking to find a way out of an impossible floundering and not seeing the light.
Well, maybe not quite an escapist series after all.
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