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Fauda tackles October 7: Is it too much to watch?

Fauda tackles October 7: Is it too much to watch?

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In this episode of The Jerusalem Playlist, host Ezra Taylor and Jerusalem Post film critic Hannah Brown dig into the long-awaited fifth season of Fauda, now streaming globally on Netflix. Set two years after October 7, the season sends Doron and the unit from a Marseille manhunt into two flashback episodes that recreate the attack itself, episodes so intense the producers attached a content warning and told viewers they could skip them and still follow the story. As Brown puts it, the images "can't be unseen once you see them." She also explains the real-life losses woven into the production: a crew member killed fighting in Gaza, to whom the season is dedicated, and a lead actor wounded in combat who chose not to return.

From there, the conversation rewinds fifty years to where Israel's counterterrorism cinema began: Menahem Golan's Oscar-nominated Operation Thunderbolt (1977), with Yehoram Gaon as Yoni Netanyahu, and its glossier Hollywood cousin The Delta Force (1986), starring Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin. Brown closes with Hooligans, a KAN crime drama set among Jerusalem's extremist soccer ultras that's now finding an audience on German television, and the question of whether it's risky for Israeli TV to put its own dark side on screen. Her take: "How can Israel not be a place like everywhere else, with crime and social problems worth dramatizing.

It's a wide-ranging look at how Israeli screen storytelling is processing October 7 in real time, from a franchise that helped put Israeli TV on the global map to the older films that first made the world watch. Whether you're a Fauda superfan or a newcomer wondering where to start, this is a critic's-eye guide to what's worth your time.

From Israeli series that break out worldwide to the films turning heads at Cannes and Sundance, The Jerusalem Playlist is The Jerusalem Post's guide to culture in Israel and beyond. Longtime 'Post' film and TV critic Hannah Brown joins Ezra Taylor for reviews, recommendations, and the occasional disagreement about what's actually worth your time. Produced by Gadi Zaig.
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