So yes, whatever you think of “My Unorthodox Life,” one thing is for sure - season two will not be boring.īest Jürgen: “The Great British Baking Show” season nineĭid we expect to be willing to lay down our lives for a German British baker from the Black Forest who makes charoset pavlovas when we started this year? No, no, we didn’t, but “The Great British Baking Show” star Jürgen has our hearts, forever and always. The show has already been renewed for a second season, and it will have a lot of drama to address! Since the show first aired, Haart’s oldest daughter, Batsheva, a TikTok star and social media influencer, has divorced her husband, and rumor has it that Haart is also separating from her husband Silvio. “My Unorthodox Life” follows the life of Julia Haart, a former Orthodox schoolteacher turned fashion mogul, and her three children as they navigate their mostly very secular life. We can not talk about this year on Jewish Netflix without talking about “My Unorthodox Life.” This show is a cultural phenomenon, whether you loved it, or loved to hate it for what it meant for Jewish representation, or maybe a little bit of both. Now, please, please, let us have a “Shtisel” season four!īest Jewish reality show: “My Unorthodox Life” Season three of “Shtisel” ripped my heart out of my chest and I’m kind of OK with it? We have been waiting for the continuation of the story about our favorite Hasidic family for so very long and the wait was absolutely worth it, giving us inspired performances by Shira Haas, Michael Aloni and the rest of the fabulous cast, as well as a lot of drama and a particularly evocative plot line about surrogacy and high-risk pregnancy. It features lots of Jewish details and a guest appearance from the late, great Stephen Sondheim.Ĭasting nice Jewish boy Andrew Garfield as Larson was an absolutely inspired move, and watching him tear up the screen in this brilliant film is an absolute delight. Boom!” tells the story of the Jewish “Rent” creator as he struggles to make his dreams of creating the perfect music while working at a diner and trying to survive in New York City. This movie adaptation of the Jonathan Larson musical is absolutely magical. It’s an absolute treat, and more of it is coming - four new episodes of the show are premiering on January 6! The Jewish representation in this show is absolutely beautiful, from songs in Ladino to prayers in Hebrew to profound revelations connected to Jewish holidays. Matilda tries to rebuild her life and hopes to move to Israel, but instead, she finds herself working in a club in the Turkish capital with a diverse set of characters and reuniting with her long-lost daughter, Rasel. “ The Club” tells the story of Matilda, a Jewish mother released from prison in 1955 Istanbul. This Turkish period drama came out of left field, and I am absolutely obsessed with it. I was absolutely not expecting “The Club” to entrance me the way it did. So just in case you’ve missed it, here is the best Jewish (and Jew-ish) content on Netflix from 2021: Many of these programs were produced in the midst of a pandemic, which was quite a feat - go TV industry! So yes, luckily, Netflix totally delivered this year, bringing us a bunch of incredibly binge-able new shows and wonderful films - with a lot of Jewish content to feel proud (or if not, spend hours arguing) about. We were so ready to throw 2020 into a dumpster fire, not realizing we were about to walk straight into one, with a still raging pandemic and climate disasters and much much need to Netflix and chill (and by chill I mean tune out the rest of the world for a few hours and pretend that everything isn’t falling apart, right? Right?! Hahaha).Īhem.
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