Our Boys: HBO

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No, not Amazon's The Boys (in which, according to Benjamin Nicholas, "there's a ton of superhero eye candy, tight spandex and this show singlehandedly gives Chance Crawford the 'Ryan Phillipe Constant Ass' award for best filmed cheek shots.") Instead, this is an HBO production and in general is an analysis of how hate crimes shatter and reverberate within a society. The series is based on actual events of the summer of June/July 2014. The parents of an Arab teenager report their teenage son missing in the morning hours of July 2. This kidnapping had been sparked by the discovery of the bodies of 3 Israeli teenagers who had most probably been murdered by a small Arab group operating in the Israeli occupied West Bank a few days earlier. At first the Israeli forces could not believe that Jews would go into an Arab neighborhood, kidnap an Arab resident indiscriminately, and murder him/her in a hate crime, i.e., for no other reason than being an Arab. Subsequent events make the hate crime aspect even more complicated. The creators of the series describe its 10 episodes as “the anatomy of a hate crime,” deconstructing the personal, political and social events that took place immediately before and after the killing." It is filmed in both Hebrew and Arabic to be shown on HBO. This will be the 3rd episode coming up and tho obviously depressing it seems well worth watching, particularly considering how relevant it appears.

Edited August 20, 2019 by TruthBTold

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https://time.com/5647331/our-boys-tv-show-review/

 

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/12/entertainment/our-boys-review/index.html

Edited August 27, 2019 by TruthBTold