Category Archives: TV

TV: HaMeuheded (Special Unit)

Posted on April 20, 2012 by admin

‘HaMeyuheded’ (The Special, or The Special Unit) is a half-baked tentative of the Israeli TV industry to create a high quality crime drama, a genre which is extremely popular in Israel on the cable and satellite TV thanks to imports … Continue reading →

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War of the Universes (‘Fringe’ – Season 3)

Posted on January 2, 2012 by admin

With its third season ‘Fringe’ became my uncontested preference out of the TV series choices currently offered on the not-so-small-any-longer screens. Sure, one may say that the offer is not great at this moment in time, but I need to … Continue reading →

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“V” is for Visitors

Posted on September 30, 2011 by admin

In 1984 when we escaped the ‘1984’-shaped Communist Romania and became free people one of our first sources of fascination and the only entertainment we could afford as new immigrants was the TV. Coming from the 2-hours-a-day programs filled with … Continue reading →

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Polishuk, Polishuk, Polishuk! …

Posted on August 6, 2011 by admin

If elections were hold today in Israel a political party that never existed and a politician who was born only in the imagination of TV script writers and comical series directors would have good chances to exceed the minimal percentage … Continue reading →

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TV Series – The Borgias (first season – 2011)

Posted on July 15, 2011 by admin

I like a lot some of the previous work of Neil Jordan. ‘Mona Lisa’ and ‘The Crying Game’ were superb films, two of the best I have seen in the 80s and in the 90s. My problem with the prolific … Continue reading →

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Bring ‘FlashForward’ Back!

Posted on October 29, 2010 by admin

It’s for the second time that one of my favorite science-fiction series is canceled after the first season. Luckily it happens once every 15 years. Last time it was Earth 2, a space travel saga on an alternate Earth world … Continue reading →

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The 2nd Season of “The Tudors”

Posted on October 15, 2010 by admin

I finished viewing the second season of The Tudors which ARTE is broadcasting with a delay of about two years. It’s a daring challenge for the makers of this series to enter a historical territory that was already explored in … Continue reading →

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2 x 20

Posted on October 4, 2010 by admin

Two of my favorite cultural institutions are celebrating this month their 20th anniversary. I discovered the Internet Movie Database (or IMDb) about a decade ago. It immediately became my principal resource of information about the art of making and watching … Continue reading →

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’24’ – The Final

Posted on June 2, 2010 by admin

The curtain has fallen upon the 8th season of ’24’ and the producers claim that this was the final one. I keep a certain dose of skepticism about this, as the main character – Jack Bauer – was still as … Continue reading →

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‘Lost’ – The Final

Posted on June 1, 2010 by admin

My two preferred series on the US TV during the last few years ended last week. First the curtain fell on ‘Lost’. It started six years ago as what looked like a dramatized version of ‘Survivor’ with a group of … Continue reading →

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