The story of an internal investigation to the Israeli police stages an institution that is no longer distinguished from the gangs that it is supposed to face.
by Thomas Sotinel
Discovering Manayek, we say that, compared to the Tel Aviv police, the Braquo or The Shield teams are as harmless as the Pat’Patrol. The first episode begins with the tobacco passage of a teenager on the occasion of an arrest. It is only the gateway to a police hell made of corruption, lying and violence, until the almost total erasure of the line which is supposed to separate the legality of the crime.
To resolve to dive into this iniquity bath, you need a convincing swimming instructor. It will be Izzy Bashar (Shalom Assayag), veteran of the Department of Internal Affairs, fifty -year -old Bedonnant with regard to infinite melancholy. His experience of the fallibility of colleagues on which he investigates, the astronomical sum of the enmities that he has accumulated throughout his journey do not prevent him from testifying to an almost childish astonishment each time he reaches a new layer of the mille-feuille de corruption that makes the scenario of this season.
Married to Eti (Orna Pitussi), also a policewoman, who has, as for her end of career, ideas otherwise dynamic than those of her husband, Izzy is also the Barak Harel line fishing companion (Amos Tamam) – Commissioner whose methods evoke more those of Scarface than of Maigret – and Dudu eini (Sasi Samucha), hierarque who would especially like not to have too many trouble. It only takes a few sequences for this fragile relations of relations to steal into the shatter.
gang war
started with the one who shows the arrest of a subordinate of Barak Harel, a dynamic boy who completes his police salary with his pledges of killer. First dismissed from the case because of his links with the corrupt commissioner, Izzy is brought back to the fold of internal affairs by his superior (Maya Dagan), who hopes to manipulate him. Meanwhile, the gangs that prospered under the protection of Barak Harel are divided into a multitude of deadly factions, which do not necessarily obey confessional or political logics.
More than an administrative inquiry, the procedure that Izzy and his colleagues follow resembles a gang war whose adversaries are only distinguished by their appetites: some prefer power, others, money. The creator of the series, Roy Iddan, is also one of the authors of the Tehran series, and we can reasonably assign him the frantic pace of Manayek, with this taste for the reversals of the situation which deprive in a second the characters of all their defenses, for these explosions of violence which spare neither the righteous nor the bad guys.
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