Variety reports about an upcoming series on Netflix, which sounds like it will make the haters go (more) nuts:
“Fauda,” “False Flag” and “No Man’s Land” producer Maria Feldman is teaming with Israeli director Dror Shaul on “The Collective,” an epic drama series set against the background of the early history of one of Israel’s best known institutions: the kibbutz.
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In the series, William is accidentally caught up in an incident that forces him to leave the U.S. Given his uncle is an Israeli government minister, he joins a ragtag group of Americans who set sail for Israel, many also escaping a past, in order to found and settle a kibbutz.
William arrives in Israel at a moment of hope and much freer love. But the kibbutz is situated on the edge of the Gaza Strip, inhabited just a few years before by Palestinians.
Israel, moreover, is preparing for a war it will fight against all odds and kibbutz members, even if they’ve never held a gun, are expected to defend the border.
Many of the volunteers didn’t really understand what they were signing up for,” said Feldman. “Some stay, some leave, some even die,” she added, calling “The Collective” “at times half comedy, half tragedy.”
Envisaged as a three season series, each season builds to a conflict, the 1956 Suez War, the Six-Day War of 1967 and the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Feldman said.
From being an outsider wanting to belong, William becomes a leader who defends the kibbutz against the Egyptian army.
While shows like My Unorthodox life have upset many Jews and Jewish groups, The Collective may have the opposite effect. At least that is what it sounds like. I sincerely hope political correctness does not lead its writers to try and paint the conflict in a “balanced” (i.e. ahistorical) light.
One thing’s for sure: Z-List actor and Israel-Hater David Clennon will not be auditioning for a part.
