Black Space

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00s Hollywood high school plots about the secret life in a school, the intrigues, the subculture, but it doesn't look outdated, anachronic or so...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...

There's little cohesion in the arc of the story. Where is the forensics team? This is more of a "solve by mood" type of approach to a serious crime, and it's un-believable in light of detecting in this day and age. The back stories are weak and muddy; it's unclear what's going on and takes forever to get clues, and the supposed grievances that are supposedly driving their revenge actions are fuzzy. As far as revenge plots go, too many loose strands. It's a shame because the performances were good, but the story was no match for them. At the end, I was like, "That's IT?!" Pffft!

So they couldn't check all students for GSR on the hands ? All we got from this serie was that israelí teenagers are as bad as every other narcissistic teenagers from any country.

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!

An entire school of dirty, smelly, drunken, stoned, cynical and amoral teens? Even the one kid with a respectable demeanor is a drug dealer and a forgery expert. Add in administrators who bury their heads in the sand, and a morose detective with a grudge that we never even get the full back story on.

Having said all that, I did like the concept of a middle aged detective assigned to a case at his old high school, and incorporating a handicap issue.

The plot was too hard and vague for me to follow. I watched it all and I still don't fully understand who did it and why. That's not a good sign.

The description mentions a small town, but it's clearly not. That is a big mistake. This is an urban setting that is obviously in a fairly upscale, secular area of Greater Tel Aviv. The urban aspect is part of what alienates the kids. Because there is no small town vibe.

By not including any normal kids, you get the sense that the entire student body is disaffected. That is not realistic.

Nevertheless, the actors played their parts convincingly, and our lead's intensity mixed with care was intriguing.