In early scene Bad guyThe award -winning Israeli drama series, which has just arrived in Netflix, opens Tamara Scheinman to find his front door to find the hallway of his apartment building full of police. Dawn has not yet been broken, but they have already secured an order to search for a single mother's home and arrest his two sons parents, Dean (Guy Manster). “I asked them not to come,” Tamara (Neta Plotnik) demands a social worker accompanying the police. “I called because I was afraid.” His protests – and his refusal to dress – drag the boy out of bed and the team in the car where he drives to the station.
For some 130 million viewers Who has done in Netflix's say Adolescence the platform of your Third most viewed English -language series The scene is definitely familiar all the time. This miniserial opens with a significant similar situation: police, shocked family, early silence, young suspects rushed out of his bed. At the age of 13, the dean is even the same age as AdolescenceHigh school murderer. That does not mean Bad guy is ripov; In fact, it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2023 before Israel last year. But Netflix certainly knew what it would do just like the show's disclosure Adolescence Slide off his audience charts. In fact, in addition to setting them up, the series has little in common. And the inevitable comparison does not favor Bad guyWhose often engaging but scattered, toned, uncompromised minor detention is accepted by its focused and reasonable predecessor.
If Adolescence used a killer with his baby's face to explore the misogynia among a generation that has never enjoyed a day without social media, Bad guy Follows his protagonist Juvie with a less defined action plan. In a produced, an elliptical narrative structure with multiple schedule leaves the story behind Dean, which he accuses Tamara, blurred up to eight episodes of season late. What we know from the beginning is that Dean made it relatively unnoticed from prison. The series is designed by the stand-up comedy sets by the adult dean-or-who now confuses Daniel Chen, the real name of the comedian, actor and co-creator who is his own version. You think this structure would allow him to filter Dean's experience through the wisdom of an older man, but his monologues rest on low jokes. (“You know why I don't like pedophiles? They think small.
The show is much better if it follows the young dean's relationship with his cellular partner Zion Zoro (Havtamo Farda), who is notorious at the infamous detention center because he was a “psychopath” beating a young girl's death with a stone. Zorot is hated by fellow prisoners – who whispers that he committed his last cellular suicide – although it is difficult to say how much of this hostility is the reaction to his crime and how much to do with him is black and etiopia. The boy, for his part, is quiet and seems to be a repetition, making the cell Dean as a soothing shelter in an institution, which is unofficially prevailed by Mini Mob Boss Boss Freddie (Ishay Lalosh). Soon, Freddie Dean will forces Zoro to choose between his own security and loyalty, which Dean's knowledge of Zoro did, and ignorance of the details surrounding this monstrous deed.
Presented through an intimate but inconspicuous cinematography, with close-ups revealing the emotions that boys who post adult thugs are trying to hide, do young actors-Mummy and Fara-Psychological Details that rarely come through in dialogue. These performances are Bad guyis highlighted. If only a show whose theme is enough for the decorations, did not try to be so hard to be sharp. Another many of its many creators is the showrunner Ron Leshem, the original version of Israeli writer the controversy of the teenage drama Euphoria;; He was described even as “next EuphoriaTo. “It's not. HeartsstopperRecommend the seriousness of the story. Daniel's inexperienced comedy could have achieved a similar goal if it were more fun, more introspective and less dependent on stereotypes. On the Glib stage about the Arabs with a violent but semi-cosmic vignette of Dean of the Dean of the majority-Muslim cell, could have felt less spirited than Bad guy All substantive Arabic characters performed.
This is probably not the whole of Leshem and his co -creators that so many of their choices will come inexplicable for the American viewer. Comedy can be famously difficult to translate further from the language and culture from which it comes from; Daniel could have fun in Hebrew. I am confident that some of my significant confusion around the dynamics of the plot and character is due to my lack of knowledge not only with the Israeli criminal justice system, but also from the ways in which factors like race, ethnic affiliation and religion work in it. (Imagine trying to understand Orange is a new black Without this knowledge of the US)
Nevertheless, something elementary is missing Bad guy– something that makes it more precisely the disappointing continuation of boys and violence Adolescence So the telling was postponed. It is so suspicious to show an overview and analysis that it leaves the topics under -represented and the thoughts unfinished. How does Zoro live with himself? Why does the dean turn out to be so hungry for the exact form of a companion that Zoro and some other Juvie detainees offer? Have society failed teenagers who only hold themselves in a “good prison”? How could Dean imagine for decades to spend behind Zoroga bars as a “lifelong sentence of freedom”? Its connection to all these issues is quite superficial.
The series finally pushes two big gaps in the viewers' understanding of how Dean's past is related to his gift. First of all, we do not know why he and Zoro lost. (This storyline, like Dean's other old friend, turns out to be too easy to solve.) We also wonder how Dean developed from a minor cart with little interest in building the future on a successful comedian. The partial answer, which seems strangely isolated in almost all of the other broadcast, is that the detention center has a drama program that the teacher (Bat-Chen Sabag) sees him something extraordinary-the same thing that makes Zoro perception of the Dean better and thus worth defending. Never note that Dean's jokes hardly depict the outrageous proof of talent. It is frustrating to the extent to which his alleged excellence is overshadowed by the humanity of other prisoners. What was so cool AdolescenceAfter all, it was a meaning that its protagonist could have been any angry boy in the world.
