The story itself is interesting, but is it representative of terrorists? I think not. Find just one Islamic terrorist attack that involved three westerners. There aren't any.
The show is good from a dramatic point of view, but it is in no way "realistic". It's about as true to life as 24. But, like Kiefer does on 24, the actors on here are quite good. It reeks of too much handling from producers - you can almost hear the pitch meeting "we can't just have a bunch of arabs. People need to identify with these characters. And we need a love interest." Very formulaic. Obviously a lot of time and money has been spent on this and it's very watchable, but ...
HBO would have kept it truer to form. For instance, I am quite curious about the Indonesian character. If you've ever been to Indonesia, he looks about as Indonesian as an Eskimo. Would it have been that hard to find an actor from Jakarta?
The show is good from a dramatic point of view, but it is in no way "realistic". It's about as true to life as 24. But, like Kiefer does on 24, the actors on here are quite good. It reeks of too much handling from producers - you can almost hear the pitch meeting "we can't just have a bunch of arabs. People need to identify with these characters. And we need a love interest." Very formulaic. Obviously a lot of time and money has been spent on this and it's very watchable, but ...
HBO would have kept it truer to form. For instance, I am quite curious about the Indonesian character. If you've ever been to Indonesia, he looks about as Indonesian as an Eskimo. Would it have been that hard to find an actor from Jakarta?