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He's been a nice addition to the cast. Has some really good scenes, too. And the punk rocker thing is a nice bit of edge to his character. He also has that seen it all been there before attitude and has the ability to see through some of Harry's crap. ha
That scene was one of the strangest and wrong depictions ever, ha. First you see the shot from the Heathrow ring road into the air with the passing jet landing overhead. Scene labeled "Heathrow."
Then Jack is walking to the UK border force station with the London Bridge out the left window (!!) and what appears to be a weird skyscraper collection behind it. The view from....Heathrow? Heathrow is way out of town about 18 or more miles from central London where that London Bridge is.
Man they really cut corners on THAT CGI and scene. That big blue blobby "jet" flying past the window wobbling all over the screen like it was trying to make a crash landing was the capper, like animation from a cartoon, but without the detail--it was just a blue outlined mass that nobody filled out into a graphic. Oh good lord. Didn't anybody in the editing room catch that one?
Hilariously awful.
I think he killed him because Walid thought he had lost his ability to lead the group --- when Abu was taken in by Doron the enemy, Walid found out and went to see Abu to show him how foolish he'd been. Abu had definitely lost his sheen as the almighty and powerful wise leader.
Walid also was coming up in the movement and I think he simply thought of himself as the natural successor and wanted to take over from Abu---so he just got rid of the man he had lost confidence in in order to take the helm himself. We know how ruthless Walid is. He did not hesitate did he.
This team in the show that was created by Lior Raz has at one of its basic requirements to be able to blend into Palestinian and Arab neighborhoods as part of their counter terror missions. Lior was on such a team in real life, so he knows what he's writing about. What makes them valuable is that all the team members can "pass" in appearance, Arab accent, idioms, and behaviors and even dress when necessary in order to work under cover.
In the show we see them in their van or other vehicles going to Palestinian neighborhoods and immediately speaking Arabic, etc.
They are chameleons which is part of their job in the show.
If you want something with a different mix (not necessarily Arab and Israeli police working together, but some Israelis posing as Arabs), you might try "Fauda."
The man who created, helps to write and stars in it is an actual veteran of the kind of domestic counter terrorism team portrayed in the show. The Fauda team is Israeli. But they are trained to pose in Palestinian and Arab areas---they speak the language perfectly, have the mannerisms and nobody knows they are Israeli when they are working "behind the lines." etc.
Aside from being an intelligent as well as action-oriented team, the show treats the Palestinian and Israeli "sides" and characters with sensitivity and explores the gray areas of both sides of the conflict.
Until "Our Boys" I'd have said "Fauda" and "Hatufim" were the best shows that explore both sides with intelligent scripts. But now "Our Boys" joins them in a top 3 in my opinion.
Avishay had OCD and extreme anxiety disorder He was probably looking up as an OCD tic that he had. To say he was looking for a drone as an everyday Yeshiva student on his way to his various daily events is unlikely. He was ill.
His uncle was schizophrenic and his grandmother appeared to be afflicted with severe anxiety herself, so much so her husband the rabbi kept the radio from her and did not tell her anything as she lay in her bed suffering her various delusions and anxieties.
<spoiler>The psychiatrist treated all three family members---the Avishay's grandmother, Uncle Yosef and Avishay too. There was a strain of instability in the family carrying right on down the line.
At the very end it was moving to see the Rabbi who had protected all his family members as much as he could from the consequences of their mental illnesses---tell his family that were gathered that in the end there was this terrible affliction that came down the line and was largely responsible for being the spark that caused the murder of Mohammed.
There were several catalysts that set it up of course in the whole revenge environment of the community---but if Uncle Yosef had not been having a severe episode (he'd already been diagnosed as having murderous ideations against his own baby by his psychiatrist---she told Simon that when he came for Yosef's psychiatric records) that night may not have happened that way. Two of the three murderers were not stable mentally at that time. </spoiler>
Yes on production values--they were SO good on Downton the movie.
I'm old enough to recall the original 'Upstairs Downstairs' when it first aired. Nobody at the time thought it was a soap opera fluff. On the contrary.
It had serious literary and historically knowledgeable writers--even Fay Weldon wrote some of U-D at the beginning as well much original drama back then and so she was famous for writing shows that pertained to women's lives--which U-D addressed. She did several good tv series back then.
The "window dressing" of the show was the frocks and mannerly traditions. But the undercurrent was nothing but serious social history about the lives of servants below stairs and it never pulled any punches--when it showed the back story of the servants' lives.
No holding back on the issues of abuse between servant and the employer, etc. The Great War episodes and the aftermath were especially gut wrenching. They also examined the social aspect of The Bright Young Things without any rose colored glasses.
As for production values, I just love every UK tv show from especially the 70s and early 80s--I seek them out everywhere. When you tube first arrived they were all on there---then the UK companies apparently realized they had a gold mine sitting on their shelves and began to resurrect them for sale to streamers. And a lot disappeared quickly as they were wiped from YT.
Back then BBC and Thames Television and places like Yorkshire television had no money. It was all golden writing by highly educated genius writers (as well as the kitchen sink folks doing their thing) and the world's best actors essentially slumming it back then between theater or film gigs.
So the production values on set in tv were not very good.
In U-D there is a close up of a big phone box on the wall, after the Edwardian "house" gets its first telephone. The close up of the phone is from the side with the door to the butler's pantry on the other side next to it.
The phone rings...you see the famous butler Mr. Hudson enter and close the door as he picks up the receiver to answer. You can see when he closes the door the "wall" around the phone and door wobbles all over the place because it is clearly made out of some kind of heavy cardboard!
Classic!
Miss the old frugal days of British tv companies, very long on brilliant a-class acting and award winning mature writing by literary folks that never pandered or pulled any punches, with their shoe string production qualities that were utterly charming.
Similar for "The Sandbaggers" too. Their "walls" were never quite "still" when doors were shut during a scene. :-))))))))))))))
Well, the certainly were wise this time to snag this production---I mean, imagine the world wide ready made audience this film has! For the fan base, all they have to do is say "Downton Abbey" is coming. Then can target the rest of their advertising to get new viewers.
Smart move to pick this one up.
Imelda? Or somebody else?
Having been a fan of Imelda for almost decades, it was nice to see her play a part in such another popular franchise.
But this is not making it to the big screen, alas. She earned an Academy Award best actress nomination for that stunning performance in a very moving film "Vera Drake." And has been in a lot of big films, which is great.
She also was outstanding in the recent version of "Gypsy" as the stage mother. It was filmed as part of the live theater's film program and might be available online somewhere to show her live performance. She's just amazing.
I agree with others on this--I'm only there for Spader. I've only watched fewer than a half dozen American product tv shows in the last 10 years! hahaha So to sit still for this, has been a real accomplishment in patience.
So it took some mighty acting juju for me to tune in to this many episodes of something made by NBC since I left ALL networks behind almost 20 years ago.
I hope against hope season 7 is the last. With a new fan base (rather then we oldies who always liked him since the days of White Palace, etc.), he surely has the followers now to support a truly excellent tv series written by top writers and aired on one of the prestige networks.
Was really doing fingers crossed he'd be freed after season 6 to move on to something worthy of his talent. But guess not this year, sigh.
Yes, on Dembe. We need a Dembe spin off asap, haha.
Hey Netlix? Go for it.
Do your own thing---don't rely on a show that could have been truly epic if it had not had that bottom feeder NBC hanging around its neck like a dead weight for 6 years! ha The Stupid Factor Infusion had to be assuaged in every single episode to keep it on the air on a network that lost its plot (and drama model) during the last century.
Set Dembe free! Straight to streaming as a Netflix original. Please.