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 The time is the 1950s. A heroic group of Israeli girls and boys from Tel-Aviv has set up a secret society called "Hasamba"; they gather in their secret base, the Electric Cave hidden in Haifa's Carmel mountain range, and fight the British Mandate for Israel's statehood- all the while crossing swords with various sleazy criminal elements.All rather idealistic, right?Well, we're sorry to break it to you, but it's been a while since the 1950s.Hasamba3G (Or more literally Hasamba The Third Generation; Hebrew "Hasamba Dor 3", "חסמבה דור 3") is a 2010 Israeli TV mini-series sequel to a series of pocket books written by Igal Mosinzon since the 1950s and regularly until his death. The books feature the adventures of Hasamba (which stands for "Absolutely Secret Group" in Hebrew), a Seven Man team: Yaron (The Leader), Tamar (The Second-in-command), Uzi (the Thin), Ehud (the Fat), Moshe Yerahmiel, Shulamit (The Medic) and Menashe (the Yemenite). Hasamba constantly struggled with anyone that got in the way of Israel's foundation or was generally a prick, but held a particular (mutual) grudge for criminal kingpin Elimelech Zorkin, essentially Hasamba's Arch-Enemy.Well, as mentioned earlier, that was then and now is now. As You Know, Israel was founded in 1948, so the 1950s was a rather sensitive and desperate time which called for idealism and positive thinking; this is why the books are rife with Black-and-White Morality, patriotism and Happy Endings. This state of mind has since been derided and mocked endlessly, by the left-leaning and otherwise, so now- 60 years later- some Israeli screenwriters had decided to go back to Hasamba and make a Darker and Edgier reconstruction of it.The show is set in the Present Day and attempts to Retcon all the zany adventures described in the books to make sense while taking them to their logical conclusion. 60 years have passed, and Hasamba has grown old. Yaron is a lt. colonel in reserve duty in the IDF and a pensioner, he and Tamar are divorced and everyone had generally dispersed each to their boring hum-drum lives. Then a Dr. Zacks calls up Tamar, telling her that he has something she "wants very dearly"; it turns out to be a hard disk which supposedly contains some sort of important information. They set up a meeting- then mysterious bad guys show up at the place of the meeting first and shoot the doctor dead.Thus the 70-year-old Hasamba gets dragged back into the action one by one. But they're not alone: Several guys and girls of the younger and fresher generation find themselves involved, including but not limited to Yaron and Tamar's granddaughter Renan and her schoolmate Iggy (who happened to be assigned to "help" Yaron as a part of an obligatory "help a pensioner" school program). Though inexperienced, reluctant and often at a loss, these two and the other teenagers who soon join are obviously supposed to eventually become Hasamba's third-generation counterparts.And they don't have an easy way ahead of them. They're up against Big Bad Sunny Zorkin, daughter of Hasamba's hated arch-enemy Elimelech and CEO of Israel's largest cellular communications company, Zorcom. Sunny is incredibly ambitious, ready to do anything to get her hands on that apparently crucial Hard Disk and personally oversees some rather shady conspiracies involving corporate expansion and prototype brainwashing technology.Hence the title, punning on Hasamba's evolving third generation and the 3G (third-generation) cell phone technology so popular in Israel 2010-ish.It is hard to give the average non-Israeli reader the gist of how absurd this premise is. This is like putting Disney Characters into a Final Fantasy Game. This is like if DreamWorks Animation made a CGI movie where we find out that Tom Sawyer had a son, only the Illuminati put him in Cryogenic Suspension and now, centuries later, he is defrosted and starts a great trek across the USA driving a Subaru station wagon in search of his heritage while unravelling a malevolent conspiracy involving the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill. Hellish copyright disputes had to be resolved before the concept even took off the ground.Will Yaron and Tamar recover their lost love? Will the third generation of Hasamba pull together to save the day? Will the Mind Screwy plot to brainwash children into worshipping cell phones succeed? How will Hasamba deal with the fact that someone took the real cave which inspired their mythological hideout and built a Hilton hotel on it?All these questions and more will be answered, young love will bloom and hardened avocado fruits will be thrown on the way to Hasamba's most epic mission yet.Renewed for a second season, which started airing on August 2013.This show contains examples of:
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