“The Sharks” is a successful television format: take people who dream big but who were only given a small amount of money by fate, put in front of them others whose pockets are full – and try to connect the idea with venture capital, sounds great right?
The truth is that it was a great idea, certainly in a country that was called “Startup Nation” and in episodes it seemed that every second citizen there was a potential entrepreneur, engaged in the most Israeli thing there is: looking for a shortcut, some patent that would bypass the queue, the “I’m just a question” version of financial success.
Couple this with the inflated ego of those who did it, people who truly believe that if they were lucky enough to be born to the right parents or to be successful in a one-time fashion, but one that made their next investments relatively safe, then they are a special breed of human beings – and here you have a format Where these stand against each other – the former beg (albeit in a nice way) for a resource that will allow them to change their financial future and the latter enjoy playing God.
Let’s leave for a moment the dolphins with the vision versus the sharks with the money and go straight to the kitchen of the “Chef Games” that aired last night at exactly the same time. Among food and cooking enthusiasts, “foodies” if you will, “Chef Games” was considered a valued program. Among the general public of viewers, she was not able to scratch the dizzying success of “Master Chef”, who knew how to combine the passion for the kitchen with drama, even melodrama, but the “professionals” at least in their own eyes, held her as one in which the level of cooking required of the contestants is much higher.
This level was a consequence of the format, but the relative failure of the program against its inferior-culinary competitor, managed to fool even its producers. What do we do? Bring in stories full of emotion, preferably ones created in the shadow of the war.
