Hollywood Sings The Kaddish

[Douglas Mercer]

Douglas Mercer
September 5 2022

Steve Carell isn't a Jew. But he plays one on Jewish television. He grew the beard, he is a psychotherapist, and is haunted by the sacred six million, dreams of gas chambers, in his mind's eye he pictures the "sunken eyes" of the famous victims, get in rows over his Orthodox offspring, is married to a cantor---that is his character is saturated with Jewishness from head to toe. They say this is the most Jewish show in the history of Jewish television which is quite the claim as they are all Jewish.

The show is called The Patient but from all the Jew flaks high fiving over it it might as well have been called The Jew. Or maybe The Victim. Whatever the subject matter of this show the subject is Jews. Indeed the subject matter is incidental.

You take a basic sensational and outlandish plot, a serial killer kidnaps a therapist and demands treatment for his homicidal rage---well, that's horrible, just like what happened to the Jews! There's suffering involved just like the Jews always suffer, a "gentile" is going to kill a Jew--just like the Holocaust!

How all occasions send their minds reeling to the death camps.

Killing and suffering

Why not make it Jewish?

Why not?

"Joel Fields’ and Joe Weisberg’s show doesn’t have a particularly Jewish premise."

Doesn't matter.

"Fields and Weisberg are absolutely not stealth Jews. In a recent NY Times interview, they said that their writing process began with the decision that the psychiatrist would be openly Jewish and he would be married to a cantor."

Are there any closeted Jews left? From what I can tell it's I am Jew hear me roar all around the clock.

Jews Jews and yet more Jews! Jewish plots, sublots and themes.

They are flying high on the Jew Radar! No one is going to mistake them for anything other than Jews. They are all in the Jewish Media ballyhooing that this is the most Jewish show ever on Jewish television--that's a mouthful.

"Is it Jew-ier than The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel? I don’t remember Midge saying the entire kaddish. Or imagining herself in the barracks of Auschwitz. Or, in a tense moment of recognizable coreligionist prejudice, dismissing Orthodox Judaism as a cult. Let’s call it a possible tie in."

Tie in? Hell, it's the main plot. They might as well just put a Jew on the screen and had him dance the Havila Nagila the whole time, or monopolize the money supply, or hold up signs saying We Are All Refugees.

Hava Nagila........

In any event they are all Jew shows. All In The Family was a Jew show (Bunker as in Hitler/that Sammy Davis Jr. kiss); Maude was a Jew show (a woman as man); Will And Grace was a Jew show (fag marriage): Orange Is The New Black was a Jew show (degeneracy); hell, even that homey ode to middle America The Bob Newhart Show was a Jew show ("I'm going to Denmark to have sex change operation; Howard Hessman played a gay character)

And now The Patient.

The Jewiest show of all.

"Looking for a provocative television thriller that will haunt you days after watching each episode? The Patient is a masterful psychological series threaded throughout with Jewish themes."

It even out Jews all the other Jew shows.

Which is pretty Jewy.

"Carell’s character needn’t have been Jewish, and initially he wasn’t. Fields and Weisberg said the decision was made later to add specificity and depth to their drama."

Oh he needed to be Jewish alright; just a plain goy would have been "default" and vanilla and generic and superficial. With Jews you go down in to the depths of anxiety and suffering and redemption. With Jews you get profundity and the roar of the angels and devils. Or so the self-dramatists say.

Haven't had your fill of Jews on the Jew Tube lately? Want to stick your head in the noose? That's hard to believe but for the benighted and blinkered for whom that's true The Patient if the go to show for everything Jew.

Jews!

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In addition to being the most unpleasant and obnoxious people on the planet the Jews are also the most arrogant, selfish, and self-centered--by far. They are prima donnas who preen their way through life as if they are always looking in a mirror--they take narcissism and megalomania to the ultimate level.

What else would the chosen ones do?

Dramatize themselves up on the screen all the time so everybody is aware of their plight.

They really do think that everything is about them and if for some odd reason they suspect that something is not about them they'll make it about them. The Queen died? What did she mean for British Jews? There's some trend afoot of "quiet quitting? It's really kind of Jewish if you think about it. Have a show about a serial killer? Why not make the victim a Jew? Jews are the best victims and Jews are in their element when someone is trying to do them in.

Nothing makes them feel more alive than when they think someone is trying to kill them. Even the thought of those trains rolling sends them in to paroxysm of self-worth.

"Being a Jew in America isn’t as dramatic or dire as being held hostage and fearing for one’s life. But sometimes it is."

What drama queens, eh? Bing a Jew in America is like being a pig in slop--quite literally. They've been allowed to rule our roost and call the shots, but they like to have people think they're always as vulnerable as mice being pursued by cats. You can see why the two yids who made this abortion got the bright idea to make the victim of the serial killer a Jew--other than it being a perfect vehicle to bring up all the Jew lore about the kaddish and the like--it was the ultimate victim and what better way for the Jews to shine than that?

Suffering is their element.

"Early on in writing the series, co-writers and co-executive producers Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg decided to make Alan and Beth Jewish."

Here comes the Yids.

“We were just trying to take this therapist we had and round him out, Weisberg said in an interview with Hadassah Magazine. Giving him a Jewish background, we realized, would give us certain sorts of things to play with his character and his psyche that we thought would probably yield a lot of fruit.”

There it is, the Jewish psyche, the Jewish anguish, the Jewish suffering. If it's a White person who is about to be killed by a homicidal maniac what images can come to him in his dreams? Being mugged by some fellas? Some Jews trying to dispossess him? That wouldn't work for these kikes--obviously and anyway for them it would be infra dig. But Jews have a trademark on suffering, they have blasted their woe and travails all over the world for so long that for far too many when they think of pain they think of---barbed wire, vicious dogs, emaciated human in cattle cars praying for some water----

That certainly is what the protagonist of this show thinks about.

The Jewish agony. Always up their on Masada, always wandering the face of the earth, always the townspeople on xenophobic tears.

Steve Carell isn't Jewish. But he plays a Jew on Jewish television.

"Both Fields and Weisberg grew up in Jewish households and have a deep connection to the Jewish storylines in The Patient. I think it’s on a different level, because Jewishness touches all those sides of our lives, said Fields, whose father, Harvey J. Fields, was a beloved rabbi at the Reform Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles. Indeed, aspects of the series broach the Holocaust and modern philosophy, the tensions between the different Jewish denominations and Jewish mourning ritual."

It's kind of an in house short-hand but the Jew and the Jew wizened savvy viewer will get it. It's Jew lore, and arcane Jew references, it's Jew sagas discretely referenced.

"The authenticity of Jewish representation onscreen was important to the entire team behind The Patient. Fields and Weisberg hired Menachem Hecht, an Orthodox rabbi and educational director at a Los Angeles yeshiva high school, who consulted on the Orthodox depictions and storylines, and musician Duvid Swirsky, who assisted with the Jewish music and Debbie Friedman songs used during a synagogue flashback scene."

It's all hands of all Yids in! This is a Hebrew extravaganza. They'll consult musty old books in long forgotten libraries just to make sure everything is fully kosher symbolically. They'll wheel in a hundred year old rabbis (he survived Auschwitz twice!) to make sure the Jew i's are dotted and the Hebrew T's are crossed. They'll find old bubbelehs at Cantors on Fairfax and haul the kike in to make sure all the kosher food has the right trimmings.

"All this yichus behind the scenes makes the choice of Carell, who is not Jewish and who is best known for his comedy work, unexpected—especially in light of recent controversies around Jewface, or non-Jewish actors representing Jews onscreen."

In case you are blessedly unaware of the so called finer points of Yiddish "yichus" means lineage or pedigree, meaning, broadly speaking, the Jew table has to be made fully Jewish. Hell, even the flaks in the Jew media are getting in to the terrible swing of things. That's why they love this show, it is so steeped in Judaism that they can imagine themselves back in the old country walking around the ghetto in a shawl and letting out constant wails of pain.

As for Jewface that's rich coming from these reeking Hebes. Forget about movies of shows--Jews play White in real life whenever it accrues to their benefit.

"Added Fields: We’re real believers in the value of artists using their art to express common humanity. We believe that in the specifics of every character choice are found the universals that bind us together, and that’s what artists do.”

Common humanity? First off that's a Jewish invention--and there is nothing universal in this portrayal. It's steeped in Jewish particularism, all he way down. It's a Jew show for Jews, and of course the savvy gentile hip to Jewish ways. Otherwise who cold relate to serving ice cream and getting glacial stares?

"Fields and Weisberg have faith that audiences will be riveted by Carell’s thoughtful performance, noting a scene where Alan recites the Kaddish."

The mourning Kaddish they call it, they say it's a hymn where they magnify God but what they are really doing is magnifying themselves, magnifying their travail, otherwise known as magnifying a molehill into a mountain which Moses is always coming down from.

Jewish culture (such as it is) is one long ritual of mourning, they rend their garments at the drop of a tiny hate, the gnash their teeth, they whine and kvetch, and try to convince the world (against all evidence) that woe is them.

"The two also enjoyed delving into Strauss family drama with Carell, who is also an executive producer of the series, exploring the relationship between father and son and why Ezra rebels against his particular Jewish upbringing by becoming Orthodox."

Looks like one of the offspring didn't' want to be a secular insect. All White Americans can relate, as this is important yichus.

“The Jewish themes are very personal and important to each of us, Fields added. My dad was a rabbi, so I grew up in that world. Joe grew up with a Jewish family, as well. So we were able to tap into something very personal for us."

Did he mention that his father is a rabbi?

I believe he did. It's quite the yichus.

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When they were coming up with show ideas you have the feeling they were playing spin the dreidel, because everything was coming up Jewish. A show like this probably wouldn't even have flown ten years ago, let alone twenty: a show hyper focused on Jews would have been seen as alienating to the White public. But this public has by now been eased into the acid bath of Judaism so they think it's normal.

It most certainly is not. It's is alien and strange and bears about as much resemblance to America as medieval rabbi had to a feudal Knight.

"At the close of the first episode, Sam tells Alan he met with three different Jewish therapists, and chose him to be his captive. The line is a kind of tell. Sam, who is non-Jewish and working-class, has internalized stereotypes about Jews. If he needed an accountant, I’ve no doubt he’d be hunting for synagogue treasurers."

Or if he needed someone to monopolize the money supply, or whine and kvetch, or hold up a sign that says we are all refugees, he'd look for a Jew as well.

"The show is excellent and tense and largely achieves that depth, but finds it in a familiar place: the arena of fathers and sons. It works, but is less interesting territory than the conflict between Jew and non-Jew that it often seems to be teasing."

It's doing more than teasing, sir; remember the "goy" is a maniacal serial killer and the Jew is the victim. If they had hit us over the head with a rolled up chuppah or blown the shofar at the beginning of each show they would have been more subtle. The minute the Jew is a captive his mind goes spinning in the direction of those camps. It's the whole point of the show.

"While Sam and Alan’s sessions make up the bulk of the show’s early episodes, they’re soon replaced by Alan’s grappling with his strained relationship with his son, Ezra who became Orthodox (I think Chabad, though it’s never specified) during college. Through Alan’s flashbacks, we see the effect Ezra’s choice had on his mother, Beth , a cantor for a Reform shul. Beth lashes out, bristling at the rules Ezra’s denomination has about women and insisting on singing at his Orthodox wedding, causing a scandal."

What a quandary! The professional suburban secular insect Jew is offended that her son has opted for the black hats and the weird dancing. Safe to say this isn't Ozzie and Harriet, unless that quintessential White family was secretly wolfing down gefilte fish unbeknownst. Wholesome family fare this is not, unless you have a greasy beard and a tiny hat and are always thinking about poisoning the wells.

"In an unforgivable show of favoritism that keeps replaying in Alan’s mind, Beth serves ice cream to their daughter’s non-Orthodox children after dinner as Ezra and his sons look on. Ezra and Alan lock eyes, their pain palpable. Incredibly, the show doesn’t explain what is happening. Gentiles unhip to the amount of time kashrut requires between meat and dairy courses might well be confused – or think that ice cream is somehow off limits for the Orthodox. The show doesn’t care, trusting that a savvy viewer will fill in the blanks. And it’s right to."

Are you unhip to Jewish nonsense? Do you not dig? Don't know all about the interstitial rules of a demonic religion? Haven't boned up on how weird race aliens order their eating habits? Well, it's time to stick your head in the noose White man and get with it, in the future they will make no concessions to the fact that you are a normal person, they'll expect you to be up on all the arcana of their vampire lore.

"For all its Jewish bona fides — a soundtrack that includes Leonard Cohen, Debbie Friedman and Dodi Li, casual deployments of terms like Ben Torah and Kibud Av V’Em, a dream sequence with Viktor Frankl and the Kabbalistic notion that we’re all broken vessels — the show seems to be driving at a subtler Jewish theme to which it isn’t quite ready to commit."

Subtle? Subtle? This is a about as subtle as two by for to the head, this is about a subtle as the great big menorah they put on the White House lawn once a year, this is about a subtle as the knock on the doo which precedes vanishing in the gulag. Even the aural wallpaper to this tripe is Jewish. It's like they want to pipe all the kikeness in to each of the senses----images, words, chants, prayer, music, themes, it's a sensory overload and surfeit of Jewishness. Eventually they'll just put the helmet on us and make us watch images of those corpses piling up while Barbara Streisand bellows out The Way We Were

"Sam doesn’t seem to be an antisemite — he even attempts the kaddish later on — but his identification and selection of Alan as a Jew jolts their dynamic with a crueler subtext. Alan engages with epigenetic fears. He imagines himself in the gas chamber, the sunken eyes of prisoners from the little camp at Buchenwald staring at him. It’s not clear if Alan is a descendant of victims or survivors, though it’s maybe a logical place for his mind to go as he is chained to a bed and at the mercy of a young killer."

Here's the crux of it, the ur-moment of the show, the bedrock of the Jewish psyche, a psychologist chained to bed experiencing reveries of the Holocaust. Their gaunt faces are designed to cement in the viewer the umbilical connection between what they are seeing and the final (for them) avatar of Jewish grief: they want it to be seen as a part of a long and uninterrupted continuum of what they say is always happening, expulsions, pogrom, uprooting, persecutions, holocausts.

"But the borderline sensationalism of these Shoah sequences, shot in black-and-white, feels easy compared to the flashes we get of Alan’s own experience. Left alone for long stretches, the doctor free-associates. He recalls a patient saying she never went to a Jewish funeral. Walking through a college campus, where he teaches, he’s stopped in his tracks by a flyer: March against the radical Zionist agenda, the graphic for which is an Israeli flag with a swastika in the place of the Star of David."

What a narcissistic insufferable lot, everything revolves back to them, to their alleged tragedies. Indeed, the psychologist is in the primal Jewish position--victim. When his mind becomes untethered it strips away every layer except that of Jewish victimhood, it is the very substrate of his consciousness and that of all Jews.

"If the marquee traumas of Alan’s life include estrangement from his son, Beth’s death from cancer and his forced therapy sessions with Sam, there is also the sideshow stressor of being a Jew among gentiles eager to other him. It may seem like a small thing, but, as we learn from Alan’s own reflections, those microaggressions have major power."

Microaggressions against Jews? They really must be kidding. Jews are a hostile and aggressive people bent on total domination. As for there being stress for a Jew to be living among non Jews they seem to have taken to it like piranhas to river water--they are the classic parasites among the hosts and are as in their element as a pickpocket in a tightly packed subway car.

"When Alan imagines a session with his dead therapist, Charlie (David Alan Grier), in a book-lined room (yeshiva shel ma’ala, perhaps) it is the small interactions that lead to breakthroughs."

Naturally the Jew has a negro therapist and one, apparently, up on Jewish literary trash, at least in the fervent imagination of the Jewish flak.

"With Alan and Ezra’s relationship, Weisberg and Fields, the latter of whom is the son of a rabbi, provide a father-son dynamic easily grasped by any audience, even if the specifics of the rift might seem obscure. (All viewers really need to know is that Ezra is, in Alan’s words, an extreme Jew and that Alan and his wife are not that kind.) Bubbling under the surface is a more urgent story that was maybe too niche, if, at least to Jews, far more universal, a kind of Jewish Get Out.”

Did they mention that he was the son of rabbi? And after all this obnoxious and recondite Talmudic references to Judaism they finally found something that was too niche?

"As it is The Patient handles Jewish content well, giving us moments that feel authentic and don’t deign to explain themselves and in the final reckoning does not at all vilify Orthodox Judaism as one might fear. But the deeper Jewish questions too often feel like Easter eggs in a montage of Oedipal jousting. Alan dreaming he is at Auschwitz is one thing. Recalling a synagogue shooting or the likely fears he had of Ezra becoming visibly Jewish, would be something else entirely."

Oh one step at a time. First they saturate us with this Hebrew dogma and Hebrew storylines and Hebrew suffering and Hebrew religious rifts; and they stand pat on the sacred six million; but next up will be the Tree Of Life or the way people look at the freaks with the black hats. Jews always have a time table, and it's speeding up.

"This one of the most Jewish shows to grace this era of prestige TV."

Really grace is a word that should never be paired with Jew.


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If you want to be in the in crowed I guess it's time to study up on your Jewish lore, get up to speed on the ins outs and the excruciating niceties of your qorbanot, pikuach nefesh, shaatnez, tallit labbu, shinnar, mount horeb, emet, and more, much more; learn about your bubbeles and your Purims, and your Mizrahi and your shul. Other than Jews this is no one's cup of sholom tea--but for the Hebrews they're in luck. Not only have the Jews run television since they got rid of those popular rural shows and replaced them with the working single woman in an urban and professional setting but now they have taken their mask off all the way with The Patient, they have road tested it being an explicit Jew fest down to the final nook and cranny. Expect more of this kind to disgrace our airwaves in "prestige television"--the kaddish is a mourning prayer but these Jews are thick as thieves and see it as a celebration, a celebration of themselves. And Steve Carell? He's not a Jew of course--but that's no matter--he's playing one on Jewish television.

[Douglas Mercer]

This is a about as subtle as two by for to the head, this is about a subtle as the great big menorah they put on the White House lawn once a year, this is about a subtle as the knock on the door which precedes vanishing in the gulag. Even the aural wallpaper to this tripe is Jewish. It's like they want to pipe all the kikeness in to each of the senses----images, words, chants, prayer, music, themes, it's a sensory overload and surfeit of Jewishness. Eventually they'll just put the helmet on us and make us watch images of those corpses piling up while Barbara Streisand bellows out The Way We Were.

[Douglas Mercer]

[Douglas Mercer]