A supermarket is a very suitable setting for a comical series, and this Israel series is by no means the world's first supermarket comedy. It's best when it's closest to the reality-- when we can recognize the comedy as only a slight exaggeration of what we ourselves confront in our everyday lives as shoppers and workers. Unfortunately, there are times when the writers go way over the top.
The show started out on Israel's educational TV station, with a side agenda of demonstrating how Israelis from different backgrounds work together despite their differences, so I'm especially disappointed that as the comedy goes over the top, the token Arab is somewhat clownish in his embrace of Israel's majority culture.
The series takes the form of a mockumentary, in which an interviewer seems almost to jerk the characters into a fourth dimension as they are free to discuss incidents that seem still to be very much in progress in real time. But if you accept that convention along with other departures from credibility, the series can often be good for a laugh.
The show started out on Israel's educational TV station, with a side agenda of demonstrating how Israelis from different backgrounds work together despite their differences, so I'm especially disappointed that as the comedy goes over the top, the token Arab is somewhat clownish in his embrace of Israel's majority culture.
The series takes the form of a mockumentary, in which an interviewer seems almost to jerk the characters into a fourth dimension as they are free to discuss incidents that seem still to be very much in progress in real time. But if you accept that convention along with other departures from credibility, the series can often be good for a laugh.