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- 2019
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- HBO
- 2019
- TV-MA
- HBO
Summary Three Jewish teenagers are kidnapped and murdered in the Summer 2014 in Israel. A few days later a Palestinian teenager is also murdered and an agent with the Israel Security Agency investigates all four deaths in this 10-part limited series created by Hagai Levi, Joseph Cedar and Tawfik Abu-Wael.
Created By: Tawfik Abu Wael, Joseph Cedar, Hagai Levi
- 2019
- TV-MA
- HBO
- 2019
- TV-MA
- HBO
Our Boys
Season 1 Premiere: Aug 12, 2019
83
7.5
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Summary Three Jewish teenagers are kidnapped and murdered in the Summer 2014 in Israel. A few days later a Palestinian teenager is also murdered and an agent with the Israel Security Agency investigates all four deaths in this 10-part limited series created by Hagai Levi, Joseph Cedar and Tawfik Abu-Wael.
Created By: Tawfik Abu Wael, Joseph Cedar, Hagai Levi
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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90% Positive
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
83
90% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
10% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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Despite the pacing, or maybe because of it, Our Boys is actually pretty engrossing. And it’s timely. ... By slowing the pace of its narrative, Our Boys buys itself enough time to see these nuances in its main characters, a luxury you don’t get on a typical episode of SVU. ... More than a crime show, this is a parable about the endlessly repeatable cycle of outrage and violence that has humans around the world in its grip right now.
A challenging work of art about the intractable problem of identity—the struggle of any individual to maintain core values, when the world demands nothing but solidarity based on shared victimhood. The show is unusually fearless about letting moral discomfort linger, and manages to be stirring without ever offering false hope, a rarity for even the best-made dramas.
With the authenticity and intensity recalling The Wire if set in the Middle East, Our Boys puts a human face on an age-old conflict, asking if justice is ever possible in a world where young boys are used as tragic pawns. [5 - 18 Aug 2019, p.11]
[Mohammed’s family's] well-drawn grief and their confusion is the key reason to watch “Our Boys’s” early going. ... “Our Boys” is paced with a punishing slowness, as if to drag the viewer into the morass of distrust that is contemporary Israel. But it rewards with tough insight, as through Arbid’s and Blal’s performances or in moments when the young people of Israel speak with a horrible clarity, revealing what they’ve learned from their upbringings.
The language and pacing in Our Boys reflect its Israeli roots, but the emotional core of this powerful fact-based miniseries hinges on tribalism, the intractability of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the adage that an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. In that, this HBO presentation offers a sobering window into that part of the world, with implications that swell far beyond it.
It’s so conscientious that it’s bound to confuse viewers who aren’t familiar with Jerusalem neighborhoods, the Israeli justice system, or the differences between Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews. (As a secular American Jew, I often lost track.) Despite superb performances, this dearth of context and a frustratingly slow pace can make the show a hard sit. Stick around, though, and you’ll be rewarded with a timely argument that an eye for an eye isn’t always justice.
The series' intrigue appears to be held together by Shlomi Elkabetz, whose performance as the investigator at the center is calming but weighed down. ... You can too easily imagine "Our Boys" leaving a deeper impression by being half the episode length, or cut into a two-hour movie.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 User Ratings
7.5
76% Positive
25 Ratings
25 Ratings
9% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
15% Negative
5 Ratings
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Production Company:
- Keshet Studios
Initial Release Date: Aug 12, 2019
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
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Awards
Awards of the Israeli Television Academy
• 13 Wins & 17 Nominations
NAMIC Vision Awards
• 1 Nomination
Peabody Awards
• 1 Nomination
