Quando gli eroi volano

I feel a lot of reviewers missed the point of this drama: this is essentially a story about trauma and how four friends became a brotherhood that were there for each other and had a bond that I am sure most of us would envy. And, yes, some of them did fall out but their coming back together depicts real life well and shows us the meaning of humanity.

And I cannot disagree with a lot of reviewers who said this series was a few episodes too many. And I get the disparity between the emotionality of the mother language of those actors who are Israeli and those who are South American when it is dubbed into English and whatever language you are watching it in your country.

But this is to take from Netflix bringing mainly great drama to the masses. You can't have it every way.

I sometimes think viewers overlook the central theme of a drama series or film by being too narrow in their judgment of the acting, script, direction, plot holes and yes, language dubbing. Criticise these if you must but always bear in mind the bigger picture.

And no pun intended.

In spite of recurring topics and performers as well as apparently one-track approach, this is also a series (in addition to e.g. Fauda, Bnei Aruba, Hit&Run) that caught my attention from the beginning to the end (the inclusion of a distant foreign country, Colombia, just added thrill and dynamism). All the leading performers are also up to their task, with the distress past and present well depicted, without become too effusive.

Well, the ones with far deeper knowledge of Israel may find more oddities, including as regards to the end, but I found Bishvila Giborim Afim to be another solid stone of the Israeli modern television.

The first half of the series was quite good but I felt the last 4 episodes became very predictable and tedious. If I hadn't invested so much time in getting to the half way point I'd have given up. As long as you go into this with fairly low expectations you'll be ok !!

I haven't finished watching, but I'm emnjoying this and unlike some of the other commenters the flashbacks don't confuse me at all. First of all, they're clearly marked, secondly, they all have very different haircuts during the different phases of their life.

As for subbing the show? I'm watching in the Netherlands with subtitles. Everything is in local languages, so I hear the Hebrew, Spanish and English as spoken by the actors.

Found this on the off chance when browsing netflix; pleasantly surprised; thought it was well written and good acting; enjoyed it