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Tyrant (TV Series)

Tyrant

2014

Gideon Raff (Creator), Howard Gordon (Creator) ...

Adam Rayner, Moran Atias, Jennifer Finnigan, Anne Winters ...

6.2

776

TV Series. Drama. Thriller Barry Al-Fayeed has been living in the United States for twenty years, during which time he got married to Molly Olson, and had two children (Sammy and Emma), with both Molly and he working as physicians, Barry as a pediatrician, in Pasadena. This life belies the fact that at age sixteen, he, under his given name Bassam, escaped his family life in the middle eastern country of Abuddin, where the Al-Fayeeds have been the dictatorial ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Tim Goodman The Hollywood Reporter	"Having no other episodes to find out in what direction the series wants to go (...) means it’s too early to give a definitive endorsement to 'Tyrant', despite its potential."	NEU
United States	Robert Bianco USA Today	"In essence, 'Tyrant' is a ruling-family variant on 'The Godfather', shifted from Italy and America to the Middle East (...) That move is precisely what makes 'Tyrant' so intriguing--and so troubling. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Alessandra Stanley The New York Times	"'Tyrant' tries so hard to make audiences comfortable with its foreign setting that the story becomes a little too familiar."	NEU
United States	David Hinckley New York Daily News	"If you can gulp hard and swallow the premise of 'Tyrant', you’ll find another hard, dark, intense FX drama about a world in which a lot of the normal rules don't seem to apply. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United States	Mary McNamara Los Angeles Times	"In attempting to mix West with Middle East, the show too often seems content with stereotyping both."	NEG

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