47 years old. Johnny has the complete characteristics checklist of an Israeli success story. Former kibbutznik, good-looking, a graduate of an elite military unit, and has an MBA from an American Ivy League. In his early forties, Johnny cashed out his holdings in his first successful startup and became an angel investor. He has a portfolio of about ten startups he's invested in and even branded himself as Johnny Angel. After all, it sounds more international than Yonathan Oron.
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Johnny is a man of contradictions: he's half Polish and half Persian, city mouse and country mouse, moral but opportunistic. Above all, Johnny is determined and tireless. He'll die before giving up (see opening scene from his childhood). On the other hand, he's soft, compromising, and supportive. Johnny, the person, is much more sensitive and vulnerable than Johnny Angel, the brand. He's not cool at all. Instead, he's enthusiastic and inspiring - and that's what made him a success story.
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What is success? He's a multi-millionaire, drives a million-shekel Range Rover, runs, swims, and works out regularly, is a skipper, lives in Arsuf in a villa with his stunning wife Anat (45, owns a marketing branding company, studied with him at IDC for her bachelor's degree). They have two children, Noam (16, actually a good kid, despite being gay), and Noa (10, a curious, smart, and unbelievable headache of a child). He tries to prepare his children for success in life, but you know, life (and children) don't really cooperate.
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And indeed, the family is stunning. But Johnny and Anat are more like business partners who need to maintain the power couple facade despite not sleeping together and only having sex with the aid of mushrooms and MDMA. Noam challenges Johnny with his pride celebration by bringing a new boyfriend each month and surprising him (feminine, Arab, Eritrean, and transgender - and that's just in the first season). And Noa, bless her, is an activist who believes in almost every conspiracy. Her TikTok? Lizard people and Illuminati. And Johnny Tackless Angel.
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In the background stirs Sara, the spicy Persian grandmother, a retired school principal who, despite being Israel-HaShniha, manipulates everyone. Even Johnny, alongside his facade, doesn't move an inch without consulting his dominant mother. On the other hand, Kobi, Johnny's father, is an Ashkenazi Sabra born in '48, a brilliant engineer but with emotional autism, who never hugged him.
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This not-quite-ideal idyll is destroyed by a cover story that exposes Johnny, complicates his life, and sends the entire Oron family into a tailspin.
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Example of an opening scene: at age 14, Johnny competes with a tough kid from a nearby village in a diving competition. The tough kid completes two lengths underwater, and Johnny completes three lengths, raises his head to his friends' cheers, and then disappears underwater without anyone realizing he's drowning. Only after a few seconds do they call the lifeguard, who was just on a cigarette break, and she gives him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation with nicotine-filled breath.