Later on, it's people like incredibly wealthy Sheik Majid Al Ard ( Uri Gavriel) who Eli tries to tactfully woo, leading him closer to a mysterious operation at the center of Damascus.Įli is very much fashioned as an actor spy: Cohen never wields a gun, and only sporadically is shown snooping around. But by the end of episode one, “The Spy” takes off as Eli transforms into Kamel while delivering a monologue to the camera-Kamel’s life story-and the series casts a spell, showing a chameleonic actor playing a chameleonic character.Įli's journey takes him to Buenos Aires, where he befriends Syrians like Colonel Amin Al-Hafez ( Waleed Zuaiter), who is rising in the country’s ever-tumultuous political state. Of course, the colonel is skeptical about a man who falls into his life with a smile and a joke, but once Eli is able to smoothly prove that he is for real-down to naming the grave plot of his fake parents-he gets access to the colonel, and his friends. Sometimes, it’s rushed to a fault, like a cheesy training montage that shows how Eli gets into physical and mental shape over the course of a few months, or with a key detail that’s just not hammered in enough-Eli’s devotion to country, which becomes his motivation to be gone for so many years.
Raff has a “ Pleasantville”-like approach with his color palette, only bestowing his images with full color once Eli is deep in his mission at episode three, and for the most part it feels tightly plotted. Eli jumps at the chance, even though it means lying to his wife Nadia ( Hadar Ratzon Rotem) about where he is, and what he’s doing. A twice-rejected applicant to Mossad, Eli is brought on by his future handler Dan Peleg ( Noah Emmerich), and assigned to make connections with major people in Syria, to find out what they’re planning to unleash on Israel. Across six episodes, the series details through some bizarre twists how Eli went from a diligent department store employee in Israel to a spy embedded in Syria, pretending to be a confident business man named Kamel Amin-Thabaath.
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