The HBO thriller delivered a finale that few saw coming, it also provided a “beautiful reflection” on how communities deal with loss, death, love and mercy.
Beyond the Old City walls, in a neighborhood where names of the dead echo against stone, the squabbles, loves, joys and doubts of ultra-Orthodox Jews play out often with piercing humor in a modern-day drama balanced between devotion to God and the yearnings and imperfections of his creations.
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The Israeli TV boom comes at a time, Ziv notes, in which “the world has become a more international village and audiences are more willing to hear foreign languages and discover foreign settings. At the end of the day, it can be a story that is very far from your culture and what you know, but if it’s a good story, it can touch you in a very personal way that makes it feel like it happened nearby.”