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Fauda season five dramatises the 7 October attacks; right-leaning columnists praise it

Season five of the Israeli series Fauda, released on Netflix in September, deals with the 7 October 2023 attacks. Two right-leaning North American opinion pieces review it favourably.

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Image: Washington Examiner
Image: National Post

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Right · 2Season five of the Israeli thriller Fauda, whose title means "chaos", was released on Netflix in September and deals with the 7 October attacks. Right · 1The series follows a fictional Israel Defence Forces counter-terrorism unit, the Mista'aravim, and earlier seasons ran from 2016 to 2023. Right · 1Lior Raz, the co-creator who plays protagonist Doron Kabilio, told the Jewish Chronicle the writers "started to write from our trauma" and began before the hostages had returned from the tunnels.

Right · 1According to the National Post column, the season is set two years after 7 October and follows Doron and former comrades Eli and Steve as they try to foil a Hamas plot planned for Israel's Independence Day and hatched in Marseilles. Right · 1Episodes seven and eight are stand-alone flashbacks of the 7 October invasion, preceded by a trigger warning, in which Eli's wife and stepchildren are killed; the columnist says the scenes allude to atrocities rather than re-enacting them. Right · 1The National Post column says the season is in Netflix's top ten and number one in Israel and Lebanon.

Right · 2Both reviews are favourable: the Washington Examiner calls the season a "gripping, moving tribute" to the victims, and the National Post columnist says the show avoids political debate and portrays Hamas figures as three-dimensional.

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Framing
Admiring opinion reviews presenting the season as art born of national trauma and a tribute to the victims.
Emphasis
Trauma, popularity, the show's perceived lack of political argument, and Israeli security sacrifices.
Leaves out or plays down
No left or centre coverage; critical views of the series are mentioned only dismissively as 'hate-watchers'.
Charged language
“hate-watchers”“greatest calamity to befall the Jewish state”
For example
“A nation is civilized if it can transmute its suffering into art.” — Washington Examiner
“Fauda is a series like no other.” — National Post