2024-02-17 08:37:59
This week, two big reality shows aired, facing each other: “Peking Express” on the network, and “The Winning Kitchen VIP” on Besket. Both programs were recorded before October 7. They are about food, advertising and the pursuit of money. Both are out of context, striving for Their strength comes from reality TV competitions, culinary lust and the desire to win. The consciousness of the participants is a consciousness of abundance and peace, which characterized Israel before the war.
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It is a privilege that has nothing to do with our lives, to be interested in a gathering of strangers who are trying to get by abroad without money, when Israeli abductees are in the tunnels of Hamas. Or to contrast, how much Anna Aronov’s married life or Kobi Oz’s refinements and wit about a dish or fried eggplants touch our lives, when North and South Evicted and displaced citizens. Their rise to the air shows the desire of the commercial television channels to return to the old life and the familiar financial profits, but they belong to the past.
In the meantime, “The Patriots” appears to be the best entertainment program during the war. It is the only non-news program that talks about current affairs and succeeds in producing an original and vital angle. The viewer can feel a spectrum of emotions in front of it, from satisfaction and pleasure to disgust and disgust. Each according to his position, each according to taste
Yanon Magal turns out to be the moderator of Dodo Topazi. He juggles between poignant and annoying opinions and elements that turn everyday Israeli depression into a comical and hilarious lever. This week he added a blue casket hat with the inscription “Absolute Victory”. He rejoices, utters howling voices, shouts to the sky, mixes Yiddish, raises the studio in threatening tones, imitates leftists, mocks the commentators.
Right after that he does a round of introductions to his panelists for the evening. This is a homogeneous group with similar or identical opinions. One supports, the second encourages, the third agrees, the fourth adds and emphasizes.
The audience in the studio consists of two rows of completely tired people who, instead of living their lives in peace and at ease, go all the way to Modiin in the wee hours and look for reasons to applaud, when sometimes one of them gets to get close to the microphone and deliver his verse.
This is a program with a distinct and clear DNA: right-wing, bibistic, coming closer. Their great pleasure is to show that someone from another channel, in another studio, talked about them or even broadcast a segment of their program. Like little children who just want to be “said over the loudspeaker”. Sometimes it’s Yaron Avraham, sometimes it’s Raviv Drucker.
For them, this is the confirmation that they exist – they were talked about on the channels of the greats. They’ll show clips of other broadcasters showing them, and they’ll be shocked, convulsed, annoyed and teased, and then they’ll come back down on the other studios.
The activity of the Nahal Brigade’s combat team (photo: IDF spokesperson)
It’s a cheap and spectacular entertainment show, the best in town. Their purpose during the war is to flatter the country, to cultivate the Israeli ego, to commemorate the national erection. Not always in complete harmony with reality or the truth or the public mood or the objective situation, on the contrary. As much as outsiders think one thing, they will cultivate an opposite opinion.
“The Patriots” is like Ben-Gurion’s Channel 1, a kind of branch in the prime minister’s office. United, victorious and no one will tell you otherwise. Always enthusiastic and uplifting. This is not journalism in its basic sense, of criticism, the search for power and exposure of corruptions. Definately not.
They perceive their role as uplifting, exciting, stimulating and joyful. They’re like a TikTok video of an influencer just selling face serum. So for them Bibi is a serum. They will broadcast flattering pictures of him patting a religious soldier on the back.
Magel surrounds himself with his likenesses of different ages and in different formations, but it is a room of mirrors of the same opinions. Itamar Fleishman puts together an argument in speech at an ever-increasing pace, as if experiencing inner ecstasy while rolling his eyes with pleasure. Noa Drumi tries to put together a puzzle with logical logic, she doesn’t always succeed.
Yaki Adamkar is not gifted with charisma or the ability to ignite. Her friend Meir is smug and convinced that every time he speaks the Shekinah comes to visit. This is a collection of types that no other studio would house. Dror Kapah is not a person known to anyone, with a past as a fitness instructor he has found his place and here, we also hear his opinion.
The only one who rises above them all is Yotam Zimmeri. Beyond the fact that he is handsome, he also knows how to put together an argument with punch. He is connected to reality and also to his heart. He seems to be the only one who does not have a treasured evil in him that threatens to erupt at any moment.
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