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Baghdad Central is well-written, -directed and -acted, and the debut episode sets the table for some potentially vigorous drama.
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Besides some great dialogue, Colla has gifted Channel 4 with a central character rooted enough to sustain several more series should this find its audience.
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Adapted by Stephen Butchard from the novel by Elliott Colla, this is a superior drama that hooks you with a well-worn premise – a father desperately searching for his missing daughter – but goes much deeper, asking uncomfortable questions about the West’s responsibility in the Middle East.
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Neither power nor politics is really the strength, or point, of “Baghdad Central,” which is always being driven by Mr. Zuaiter and his singular performance. Muhsin is a role that feels lived in.
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I see what it was trying to say and that it is a class piece of work even though it was somewhat scattered and served up my other two top hates: raped women and scenes of torture.