I like Lior Raz as an actor and enjoyed him in Fauda. So I was looking forward to see him in this show. The beginning was good, but the conclusion was very disappointing.
The show portraits both CIA and Mossad as a bunch of blood-thirsty killers. Actually, the Mossad looks even worse then the CIA. The script is often get plain silly. Seriously, top officers of Mossad meet at the café to discuss important national secrets, so that the CIA agent can sneak up on them to get the important information, while murdering a Mossad agent in the process. And when they decide to retaliate who can blame them?
The character played by Lior Raz also kills the CIA agent when he comes to snoop up in his home. Then someone places a bomb on his door. The script does not explain who did it and why in the world they had to do it, except for the cheap effect.
The script also does not explain why the Mossad (or CIA) had to kill Segev's wife who was absolutely not involved, and kidnap his daughter, unless for the purpose of finishing the show with a cliffhanger and leaving the room for the next season (that I absolutely have no intention to watch).
As already mentioned, Lior Raz is a good actor, but he should stick to acting and not to writing scripts. He always uses his left-winged slant in his writing by clearly disliking both Mossad and CIA. He also made a thinly disguised dig at Trump by mentioning that the POTUS's son-in-law betrayed his country to the foreign power.
All in all, I had a great expectations from watching this show and was totally disappointed, especially after watching the great French spy serial The Bureau.
The show portraits both CIA and Mossad as a bunch of blood-thirsty killers. Actually, the Mossad looks even worse then the CIA. The script is often get plain silly. Seriously, top officers of Mossad meet at the café to discuss important national secrets, so that the CIA agent can sneak up on them to get the important information, while murdering a Mossad agent in the process. And when they decide to retaliate who can blame them?
The character played by Lior Raz also kills the CIA agent when he comes to snoop up in his home. Then someone places a bomb on his door. The script does not explain who did it and why in the world they had to do it, except for the cheap effect.
The script also does not explain why the Mossad (or CIA) had to kill Segev's wife who was absolutely not involved, and kidnap his daughter, unless for the purpose of finishing the show with a cliffhanger and leaving the room for the next season (that I absolutely have no intention to watch).
As already mentioned, Lior Raz is a good actor, but he should stick to acting and not to writing scripts. He always uses his left-winged slant in his writing by clearly disliking both Mossad and CIA. He also made a thinly disguised dig at Trump by mentioning that the POTUS's son-in-law betrayed his country to the foreign power.
All in all, I had a great expectations from watching this show and was totally disappointed, especially after watching the great French spy serial The Bureau.