Review of Caliphate

Caliphate (2020)
4/10
Great theme but Poor script and screenplay
4 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Season 1 : The main character (Fatima, a woman cop in Sweden) isn't trusted by her colleagues, and she single-handedly co-ordinates with another Swedish woman named Perven (who is stuck in ISIS territory of Syria with her terrorist husband and baby), to gather information about terror attacks in Sweden, in exchange for rescuing her.

But it turns out in the climax that, the swedish police department knew about the terror attacks all along, but didn't want to tell the Fatima as they considered her incompetent and useless (which I feel she actually was). This is the worst ever script written for a thriller.

Finally in the climax, when Perven and her baby are about to escape, Fatima calls her and tells her to go back and save another young radicalized girl Lisha from Sweden who went to Syria. Perven begs her to drop this plan, but Fatima doesn't listen. Perven goes back only to find out that Lisha isn't interested to return to Sweden, and Lisha rats out Perven and her husband to ISIS terrorists, who kill Perven. (Seriously, I wish the dumb Fatima herself had died, instead of the brilliant Perven). In the end, Fatima ends up rescuing only the militant husband (i.e, the psychopath who had called his wife Perven unclean and anti-muslim, after Perven was raped by his friend Ahmed, who Perven killed during self-defense). The series is a disgusting turn-off. I gave 4 stars only for Perven, as she was the only sensible character amongst all other dumb characters in the whole season.
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