The Spy

Just finished watching the show. Excellent cinematography, Love how one character defined the whole show Brilliant work by Sasha Baron Cohen.

That is fabuluous initiation into a dramatic role of Sacha B.Cohen. Very organic immersion into character.

Worse to see!

I was not aware of the story about Eli Cohen so this series was interesting on a historical point of view and I learnt stuff. I didn't have any bias towards one side or the other before starting and I don't think either side comes out of it better or worse than the other as the story telling makes you at times feel sorry for some of the Syrian characters and annoyed at some of the Israeli ones, and vice versa. At times I thought the mentions of Saddam Hussein, Arafat or Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden may be gratuitous but it turns out not really. The latter in particular was really involved in the project.

All in all the costumes, sets, props and acting were good and convicing. Both Sacha Baron Cohen and Hadar Ratzon Rotem did a great job at their respective roles. The only actor I had a bit of an issue with was Alexander Siddig who plays Suidani and comes across almost like the Terminator, glaring seriously in every scene and looking obviously suspicious of Eli (even the worst spy would have noticed).

Great espionage 6-piece despite how frustrating both sides of the lake have been over the years. Cohen has finally landed a role that suits him to the dot, pity he wasn't cast for Freddy Mercury, I suppose his age was a serious factor. The series has very tense scenes at times, some tolerable melodrama here and there, overall a must watch if you are not easily insulted by the ongoing conflict from either side of the border.

Take the emotion of the situation between Syria and Israel out of your reviews.

This series represented an incredible story that was well directed and the acting was very well done.

Sacha Baron Cohen was incredible and everyone else in this show played their parts well.

I would very much recommend this series.

They introduced enough at the start for everyone to feel like they knew the story and to keep suspense throughout the series. It is not gory and so the focus is on the story and the characters (real life people).

Clever use of visuals to highlight the time scale and as a viewer you felt like you really got to know the characters (people), which is difficult considering this was based on real events!

Still can't believe this actually happened.

Please watch it.