She's Awesome

This episode on Maidens:

~ Shelly and Roie explore the Hidden Lake, and uncover a startling discovery
~ Neri attempts to interview Uzi, but he’s let Karnit bribe him with pastries into letting her come, and…
- ...Karnit is only more convinced Maya was just a disturbed kid
+ Ruthie is still awesome, in case anyone wondered
~ What’s up with Yinon and Liezer, anyway?
+ Noam makes some distressing statements, and Grandpa Uzi is very concerned...
~ Shelly and Roie’s discovery rattled someone’s cage, but in a good or a bad way?

Other notes.
~ Ramon Prison, which Shelly and Roie visit in this episode, is situated near Mitzpe Ramon. That puts it some 150km/2hr from Eilat.
~ Something which would be implicit to Israeli viewers but not necessarily obvious to outsiders it the situation of the Sawaed family. As a (Bedouin) Arab, Amir Sawaed volunteered for enlistment - he had no duty of draft. Bedouins do that to make a living, and in hopes of improving their community's standing to the wider (Jewish) Israeli society. The second consideration... doesn't work out: the Bedouins may well be the most marginalized group in Israel. Moreover, the Sawaed family would've been open to violence from their community due to Amir's choice to enlist. This makes Amir's apparent abandonment by the military all the more bitter. The story presented in this episode? National headlines.

Content advisory.
~ A snake (nothing happens to anybody)
~ Karnit and the school counselor are horrible; adult women dismissing teenaged girls (and teenagers in general)
~ Self-inflicted violence (sharp blade, not life threatening) in the last scene (at Ramon Prison)

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This week on Maidens:

+ Neither Uzi nor his daughters have any fucks to give about societal expectations; Neri, Karnit and Roie are all quite exasperated with that.
+ Ruthie continues to be the absolute best
+ Roie continues to aid and abet Shelly
+ The Complicatedness of Elinor, Maya and Shelly takes front-and-center.

Other notes.
~ Amir Sawaed's story is based off the documentary Dolphin Boy
+ Maya's involvement with Amir was... the sort of a thing that would've opened either of them to significant violence. Most mixed relationships get through without such violence, but it's always on the table. Neutral-to-positive depiction of that relationship is... not obvious
+ It contributes to what seems to be characterization of Uzi and his daughters as Leftist. Portraying an entire Mizrachi family as Leftist flies in the face of every last stereotype. Letting a family from an Arab-speaking background people (Rejwan is an Iraqi name, and Uzi and Ruthie are shown speaking Arabic between them) in fiction keep this background and be positive about and proud of it is a relatively new phenomenon and a Big Damn Deal (it's politically loaded like whoa). Having this family be anti-racist because of their cultural Arab-ness is radical politics. (Bonus points: Sasson Gabai, who portrayed Uzi, is an Iraqi Jew and was born in Baghdad.)
~ Amir's sister has a name, given in the credits; her name is Raniyah.

Content advisory.
~ Preparing a body for burial (female nudity, soft focus, respectfully done)
~ Roie and Shelly’s vocab
~ Drug use (weed) and sexual behavior (kissing, groping) between a married couple and another man in a domestic setting; seems to be established
~ Discussion of past hard drug use of 15yr old teens
~ Sexism and ablism: one man character (Yinon) consistently uses “crazy” and similar words to dismiss the opinions of several women, his wife included

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