The Writer

A whodunnit turned into a long soap opera Arab fiction tempo style, these series would have been better ten episodes short, since some of them get sluggish and become burdensome to watch. Nevertheless it has got elaborated characters, rich dialogues with added poetry, original literary resources ( i. e, when the writer dreams on), and smart turn of events to make things fit.

Some of these reviews are pretty harsh and kind of unfair. I'm a student of the Arabic language. This series is actually awesome for exposure to Levantine dialect and culture. Give it a chance.

Characters are lost, Im watching ep4 and still cannot figure out the motives for the writer or the detective or the lawyer for why they are acting like that. I have seen better roles for Basil Khayyat yet this series has supressed his talent cuz the script is weak.. just an opinion.

I am an Indian living in gulf and watch Egyptian and Labanese serials regularly on Netflix .

The serial "The writer" is ok.. story doesn't move fast. The protagonist Mr. Bassel is over acting and he is not adding value to the character.. when he is with his son he is too much. The way he repeats some words and sentences are irritating. Other artists have done well. Very natural. Ofcourse Bassel is a handsome man. :D. Ok to watch.

I'll keep it simple You can easily watch this series and enjoy it, it's not a bad choice at all, good acting, interesting murder-mystery kind of story and great imagery with an artistic type of direction (cool concept).

But i think the only real problem is that the storyline is slow, i don't know why Arabic series in general always try to hit 30 episodes, it's becoming a tradition.

So this is the only negative thing otherwise it's almost great, no need for harsh reviews, it's unfair.

Just a side note, The director, the writer, the lead male actor and the fictional detective character, are Syrians not Lebanese.