{"id":2142132,"date":"2025-11-08T02:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T02:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2142132"},"modified":"2025-11-08T02:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T02:20:08","slug":"happy-place-offers-a-touching-and-humorous-look-at-modern-societys-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/happy-place-offers-a-touching-and-humorous-look-at-modern-societys-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Happy Place\u2019 offers a touching and humorous look at modern society&#8217;s challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">KAN 11\u2019s new dark comedy mixes comedy with heartfelt moments as a speech therapist faces family and personal turmoil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Happy Place<\/em>, a dark comedy, which perhaps should be called a dramedy, which is airing on Sundays and Wednesdays on KAN 11 (and which can be seen on kan.org.il), sounds bleak, and I wasn\u2019t looking forward to it. But it\u2019s about real people with real problems, as well as about the solutions that many people actually turn to, and it\u2019s both funny and moving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The main character is Vered (Noa Koler), a speech therapist who is in the midst of a midlife crisis, without even realizing it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She\u2019s not particularly happy with her husband, Ben (Avihai Pinhasov), or their kids. She\u2019s close to her mother, Naomi (Tiki Dayan), a woman who suffers from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/health-and-wellness\/article-869400\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:diabetes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">diabetes<\/a> and is depressed about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Vered is surprised when an old friend of her mother, Devora (95-year-old Lea Koenig, who is absolutely wonderful), a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/j-spot\/article-868717\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Holocaust survivor;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Holocaust survivor<\/a> who was in the partisans during World War II and who had an unusual specialty while hiding in the woods, gets in touch with her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Devora says that Naomi asked her to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/article-868712\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:euthanize;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">euthanize<\/a> her. Shocked, Vered learns that a doctor is urging her mother to have her leg amputated, and she doesn\u2019t know what to do when her mother tells her she wants to die.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>A blood glucose test is done to check sugar levels in a Type 2 Diabetes patient (credit: DARRYL LEJA\/NIH\/FLICKR)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Impulsively, Vered brings her mother to a seminar run by Yotam (Idan Haviv), an \u201cemotional coach,\u201d the latest boyfriend of her friend Ossi (Moran Stoyitzky).<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">A mix of humor and deep emotion<\/h3>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The scene in the seminar, where the relentlessly positive coach and the relentlessly negative ailing elderly woman meet, is unexpectedly touching, and all the scenes with Yotam are interesting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The series makes fun of Yotam and the wellness industry but doesn\u2019t discount it or discredit him, and the series respects the people who are hoping to change their lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Yotam influences both Vered and Naomi in unexpected ways, and that\u2019s at the heart of this series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Noa Koler, who is one of the busiest actresses in Israel \u2013 she also stars in <em>Checkout<\/em> and was in <em>Rehearsals<\/em> and <em>The Wedding Plan<\/em> \u2013 created the series with director Ram Nehari, and she also wrote the screenplay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She has done a good job at capturing the way many people live now, and created relatable characters. Koler and Tiki Dayan, one of Israel\u2019s most beloved actresses, are especially good in their scenes together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAN 11\u2019s new dark comedy mixes comedy with heartfelt moments as a speech therapist faces family and personal turmoil. Happy Place, a dark comedy, which perhaps should be called a dramedy, which is airing on Sundays and Wednesdays on KAN 11 (and which can be seen on kan.org.il), sounds bleak, and I wasn\u2019t looking forward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2142133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[393086,408845,408843,408844],"class_list":["post-2142132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-dark-comedy","tag-naomi-tiki-dayan","tag-noa-koler","tag-speech-therapist"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018Happy-Place-offers-a-touching-and-humorous-look-at-modern.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2142132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142134,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142132\/revisions\/2142134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2142133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}