Tag Archives: TV series

too smart to be true (TV series: HPI Haut Potentiel Intellectuel, 2021 – )

The French series “HPI – Haut Potentiel Intellectuel” (“High Intellectual Potential“) debuted in 2021 – the year that most of us spent at home with very limited entertainment opportunities. This was actually a chance for shows and series of television … Continue reading

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strong real crime drama (TV series: Appropriate Adult – Julian Jarrold, 2011)

Those who ask about the point of traditional TV and its chances in the increasingly fierce competition to create content on various mediums can be answered with references like ‘Appropriate Adult‘. The two-episode miniseries produced by ITV, which premiered in … Continue reading

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a police detective travels in time (TV series: Life on Mars, 2006-2007)

One of my pleasures as a cinephile or fan of TV series is to find in them stories about time leaps or time travel. When the production is dated 17 years ago, as happens with the series ‘Life on Mars‘ … Continue reading

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real estate in East Jerusalem (TV series: East Side – Yossi Madmoni & Yael Rubinstein, 2023)

The fate of the Israeli public television continues to be uncertain, in a very volatile political situation. The best response of TV programs creators in these situations is to continue to do what some of them know how to do … Continue reading

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a mystery in Jerusalem (TV Series: Aviram Katz – Dana Modan, Eitan Zur, 2023)

Public television is in Israel, as in other parts of the world, at the center of a debate over its very existence as an institution funded (at least in part) by taxpayers’ money. At almost every change of government, its … Continue reading

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a camp in Africa (TV series: Carthago – Levi brothers, 2022)

The future of public television is under constant debate in Israel. The debate grows in intensity when, as in recent months, there is a change of government accompanied by changes in directions and priorities in terms of information and cultural … Continue reading

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a solid second season (TV Series – Tehran, second season)

When it was released two years ago, the TV series ‘Tehran‘ brought an element of novelty in the genre of espionage series. It was the first Israeli series to focus on the Israeli secret service (the famous Mossad, of course) … Continue reading

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love, art and politics (TV Series: Bauhaus – A New Era – Lars Kraume, 2019)

Famous artists are not easy themes in movies and TV series, as it may seem at first glance. The great personalities in the history of art have their fans who have opinions that are hard to change and dangerously to … Continue reading

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fighting violence with violence (TV series: The Cops / haShotrim – Rotem Shamir, Yuval Yefet, 2021)

Israeli television series have long gained an audience that watches them with interest, both in Israel and in other countries. The productions are characterized by the diversity of genres (police, political, comic, psychological) and the originality of the formulas, which … Continue reading

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a TV series about theatre (TV Series: Chazarot – Noa Koller, 2020)

Israeli television surprises and succeeds again with ‘Rehearsals‘ (‘Chazarot‘ in Hebrew), another series that has a chance to be an international success (after the success at home) and turn into a ‘formula’ to be exported and re-located in other parts … Continue reading

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