What to watch on TV: Israeli dramedy Nothing Happened, plus political dramas worth streaming

Nothing Happened, a major new Israeli series that just had its premiere on Hot 3 and is available on Hot VOD and Next TV, takes a familiar storyline – a long-married couple dealing with infidelity – and turns it into a show worth watching.Nothing Happened is a true dramedy, which goes deeply into questions of when honesty is really the best policy and the very real hurt that affairs can cause, but also manages to be very funny. It was created by Shirli Moshaioff, who wrote the Yehuda Levi series, Very Important Person, and it features some of the best writing on any television series released in years.I found myself laughing much more than I expected to when I first read that the series was about Naama (Liat Harlev), a wife whose world is upended when her husband, Alon (Assi Cohen), gets a flirty text in the middle of the night.If you watch Eretz Nehederet, you know Harlev and Cohen, two of the show's standouts. Irena and Shauli, a couple they portrayed on the comedy show, became so popular that they were spun off into the series, The Parliament. Harlev also plays the progressive, Israel-hating college student and the BBC anchorwoman, and she impersonates MK Tally Gotliv.Cohen has played MK Avigdor Liberman, Uri Geller, and many others on the comedy…