Black Space

You want to figure out who did it and why, but it was kind of hard to differentiate actors sometimes because the girls looked alike and the names. Once the detective figured out it was students we really stayed with it because ...who were the four and why????? The dubbing was a pain because they were English speaking accents instead of Israeli so we had to keep rewinding to understand who said what. When we finally get to the end and see who did it, it was a bummer, because the reasoning was not sound and so it seemed like they did it for a stupid reason, ughhh came undone for us. But it was good enough for us to stay up late to keep watching haha so there you go!

But its all downhill after that. The ending is absolutely stupid...Pleeez dont waste your time..I did and I regret it...

I don't want to spoil, so I am not going into details, but it has its flaws. But thing aren't that bad to say it's not worth - the show is fine. It's a high school scenario, so in a way, not that typical. True, it suffers from the usual thing - the actors are supposed to be teens, but they all look in their early twenties. Whatever... The cop is a bit inadequate and rough for no reason, also doesn't look good at all as a body figure.

At least you discover the story episode by episode really, which is nice. It resembles some late 90s early 00s Hollywood high school plots about the secret life in a school, the intrigues, the subculture, but it doesn't look outdated, anachronic or so...

I don't know if it represents at least a part of the Israelis' life, but again - whatever...

Bad dialogue, story and pretty much everything adds up to this being nothing more than a shallow boring copy of more successful shows of it's like.

Do not recommend.

This Israeli drama opens as a ceremony is taking place in a high school; it is interrupted when three or four people wearing unicorn masks start shooting at the students. Four are killed. The building is quickly locked down and three Palestinian workers are promptly arrested... however there is no sign of the weapons or masks and Rami Davidi, the policeman leading the investigation is not convinced of their guilt. He believes the killers are amongst the students. As the investigation progresses we learn more about the various students leading to suspects emerging. We also learn about our protagonist; notably how he lost an eye while he was a student at the same school.

I found this to be a gripping series. The characters are interesting and the identity of the killers isn't too obvious. Davidi is good lead characters, Guri Alfi does an impressive job in the role, his backstory adds to his character without distracting from the main story. The rest of the cast are pretty solid too. The ending is perhaps a little melodramatic but not overly so. It must also be said that the student characters are mostly fairly unsympathetic; even those we know to be innocent. Overall this is a good, tense series and would recommend it despite some faults.

These comments are based on watching the series in Hebrew with English subtitles.