In this Netflix limited series' true-life spy story, Sacha Baron Cohen delivers his best dramatic work yet.
Most well-done spy movies or series have something surprising at their core, and in the case of Netflix's new limited series, that notable element is that the drama is based on real events, which become more shocking and unfathomable — and riveting — as the story goes on. The Spy
The series was created, written and directed by Gideon Raff , with Max Perry co-writing the final three episodes. Director of photography Itai Neeman adds some lovely touches that help the series, shot in Morocco and Hungary, feel cramped with spy-tracking tension but also expansive. Eli and Nadia are struggling but happy. As an Arab, Eli feels the sting of being both an insider and an outsider, which posits as the reason he applied twice to Mossad. He wants to prove his worth. But the series drops that angle quickly.opens, Israel is reeling from tensions with Syria and the realization that it has no one there who's on the inside.
Mossad comes up with the Kamel identity — an import-export businessman longing to visit Syria for the first time because it's the birthplace of his parentssends him to Buenos Aires to cultivate contacts and power and to find a way into Syria, which he eventually does. At its best, the series focuses on Eli/Kamel and the dangerous decisions he makes to trying to ingratiate himself with locals.
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