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Let's start with the good stuff, it was something new locally speaking, a good effort to produce something crisp, it was mediocre on the scale of "Fun and amusement".
The list of cons is long, the screenplay, it was bad and chaotic, very poor plot that relied on a sequence of disastrous and disconnected fairy tales that were attached together and glued to a story of a young girl warning the main protagonist
from LUCIFER!! How the hell are local mythologies such as a pharaonic curse or the nadaha connected to Lucifer, this was pure Kiki (no profanity allowed), the main novels were about that every event thought to be paranormal is eventually normal but twisted somehow, so the story relied on chaotic kaka ( no profanity allowed again), instead it should have stick to the main protagonist Refaat focusing on the complexity of his character and the genius and charismatic aspects of it with another choice of actor, bad character's building and development, bad choice of actors except the child who played (Taha), that boy was the best thing about the show regardless of his short screen time, mediocre editing, bad directing as the narration technique was shallow, felt like narration for a four year old and that's the problem with most Arab productions, there are no brain teasers, nothing left for the spectator to interpret on his own terms.
Very very bad choice of actors again.
In the end, it's not about how good your camera is or how much you spend on production design, it's about how you used it and make it come to life.
I recommend Sherlock instead of this, at least you'll know what's wrong with paranormal after.
score 3/10
ziadhmutawaa 5 November 2020
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