Has Fauda Jumped the Shark?
The good news about Fauda:
It’s (finally) back on Netflix and is still a well-produced drama with tense scenes and very good acting.
The bad news about Fauda:
I’m halfway through season five, and the series is beginning to show its age — or its lack of inspiration/creativity. These are mostly script issues. There are sloppy scenes, both micro and macro. Here’s a micro: In an early episode, two good guys are tailing bad guys in their car. Good guy tells other good guy to keep his distance from the bad guys’ car, lest they be spotted. Cut to shots that show the tailing car, oh, perhaps 30 feet behind the first car. Couldn’t be easier to spot.
Another micro: We are told a bad guy always has security with him, “24-7.” This is shortly after a scene where we watched said bad guy standing, all by himself, in a crowd observing a crime scene.
Macro: Our heroes fall into the clutches of bad guys, who interrogate them and almost immediately decide our boys are not only acceptable but should be elevated to major roles in the bad guys’ organization.
Another problem, not limited to Fauda: Modern series need to stop this practice of waiting two, or even three, years between seasons (see picture at top). I watch the new season of Fauda and completely forget who died or who lived in previous seasons, who’s angry with other people and who is not, etcetera.
I’ll be damned if I’m going to go back to previous seasons just to jog my memory.
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This is like one of those puzzles where you are asked to find one item that’s different in two otherwise identical pictures:
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I’ve been reading about woke companies censoring, banning, or editing old movies that are now deemed politically incorrect (Revenge of the Nerds, for example). Or issuing provocative trigger warnings for “modern” audiences (Gone with the Wind).
But I had no idea they are also censoring promotional pictures, like above.
In case you can’t spot it, the dude is no longer holding her panties.
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