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TV series based on geo-politics are usually for people who don’t know the difference between Shia and Sunni and don’t have the inclination to know it either. A prime example is the American series Homeland, which is good, simple-minded fun with wham-bang action, and whose protagonist suffers from a superiority complex, something US citizenship bestows automatically, I guess.
However, a couple of international series that I devoured recently show that apart from showing action with style and brio, there can be decent dialogue around it. Eric Rochant’s French TV series The Bureau is more of a talk fest than a
