Contact Admin. Drama show Blue Natalie, began its second season on oct. All kinds of Israelis have become traffickers, and Blue Natalie dramatizes how an ordinary family in Ashdod becomes part of this violent, brutal business.
In many ways, this is a fine example of the creators of a television series using real-life news stories, particularly ones that have not been dramatized like this before. But the question remains: Is it good TV? The first season showed how Gadi Zvika Hadar, most recently seen in the film Hunting Elephants , a family man with all-toofamiliar money problems, gets involved in the party-boat business with his brother-in-law, Yoni Yiftach Klein, who played the title role in the film Policeman , who is struggling with drug addiction.
Gadi thinks the boat will host a few parties with strippers, but the Russian and Israeli bad guys Yoni is involved with bring a full-blown trafficking operation on board. Some of the girls, notably the angelic-looking Yulia Alona Yiv , think they have come to Israel to care for the elderly. Gadi is upset when he learns the truth, but the money is too good to give up, and the bad guys are too threatening.
While Gadi struggled with his moral qualms in Season 1, things got even worse when a prostitute died from a botched abortion and Gadi helped dispose of her body. Toward the end of the first season, it all began to unravel, and it was clear that Gadi, the least criminally skilled, would end up in deeper trouble with the police than the others. He is living on his boat, while Yoni is finishing up rehab and goes around making amends.
But meanwhile in the Sinai, the traffickers are bringing in a new group of women and get into a shootout with rival traffickers. The plot complications add action and suspense, but again raise the question: Other than the trafficked women, who are we rooting for here?
