![]() One example of a scene that seems particularly unnecessary is when Elite’s chief operating officer Robert-Julia’s second in command and her constant companion-has to babysit Julia’s sister’s kids.Įlsewhere, “dramatic moments” fail to deliver: Will weather prevent the Haarts from taking their helicopter to the airport before their Paris Fashion Week trip? (Is this a real problem that rich people have?) When a young, married couple gets fertility tests, what will they discover? (Nothing, really.) And what happens when one of Ima’s bags goes missing and she doesn’t have an Hermes outfit for the Hermes show? (Julia on the show: “You can’t wear Louis Vuitton to an Hermes show.” Me to an empty room: “Of course not.”) In many ways, “My Unorthodox Life” is a typical reality show in the ways that it manipulates the audience, such as by using ominous music to indicate a dramatic scene.īut some scenes seem inauthentic and over-orchestrated. ![]() “I had to succeed - for my sake and the sake of my children. No margin for failure,” Julia says in a release distributed by Netflix. The show illustrates her self-confidence and ambition in a manner that may seem unbelievable to those of us who have spent seven years working hard and yet not becoming a key player in a global company. What Julia has managed to achieve career-wise in about seven years in her 40s is impressive. The unscripted production is slick and there’s an interesting core story: Julia’s goal to liberate and empower people in a way that she thinks allows them to be the most authentic and free versions of themselves.Īt Elite, a talent media conglomerate, Julia encourages clients to become influencers and start their own brands, to revolutionize the modeling industry and to expand career life. “I was covered my entire life, so every low-cut top, every miniskirt is an emblem of freedom,” she says in the first episode. ![]() Her revealing fashion proclaims her self-reinvention and displays her newfound freedom as she ambitiously runs her businesses and tries to influence her children’s lives. Julia shares small pieces of the journey she has made from dressing modestly and wearing sheitels (wigs for Orthodox wives) to donning on-brand heart-shaped sunglasses, miniskirts, jumpsuits and hot pants. The show is about a mother-of-four, Julia Haart (formerly named Talia Hendler), who left her ultra-Orthodox community in Monsey, New York, and within seven years became CEO and co-owner of Elite World Group and creative director of its fashion division. Now “My Unorthodox Life” - a new, unscripted show that will drop July 14 on Netflix - strikes at the nexus between these two worlds. The Jewish community has obsessed over the slow-toned narrative beats of haredi life on “Shtisel,” and criticized the escape-from-ultra-Orthodox-Brooklyn plotline of “Unorthodox.”Īt the same time, the unscripted/reality show trend continues to barrel through television culture.
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