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Series Details & Credits
| HBO | Release Date: August 12, 2019 |
Summary:
Three Jewish teenagers are kidnapped and murdered in the Summer 2014 in Israel. A few days later a Palestinian teenager is also murdered and an agent with the Israel Security Agency investigates all four deaths in this 10-part limited series created by Hagai Levi, Joseph Cedar and Tawfik Abu-Wael.
Genre(s):
Drama, Movie/Mini-Series, Suspense
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Recent Episodes
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S1:E10. A Shaft Into a Dark Tunnel
Air Date: October 7, 2019
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S1:E10. Chapter 10: A Shaft Into a Dark Tunnel
Air Date: October 7, 2019
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S1:E9. The Perfumer and the Tanner
Air Date: September 30, 2019
Positive:
9
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
Sep 4, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Despite the pacing, or maybe because of it, Our Boys is actually pretty engrossing. And it’s timely. ... By slowing the pace of its narrative, Our Boys buys itself enough time to see these nuances in its main characters, a luxury you don’t get on a typical episode of SVU. ... More than a crime show, this is a parable about the endlessly repeatable cycle of outrage and violence that has humans around the world in its grip right now.
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Aug 8, 2019
Season 1 Review:
It’s clear from the outset of this dazzling chronicle set in Israel that there’s not going to be any softening of its extraordinary tension, its scenes of anguished suffering, its furiously eloquent debates on justice and loyalty, its epic crowd scenes. ... A work of distinguished writing, fearless in its sophistication, unfailing in its powers.
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Sep 16, 2019
Season 1 Review:
A challenging work of art about the intractable problem of identity—the struggle of any individual to maintain core values, when the world demands nothing but solidarity based on shared victimhood. The show is unusually fearless about letting moral discomfort linger, and manages to be stirring without ever offering false hope, a rarity for even the best-made dramas.
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Aug 12, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The language and pacing in Our Boys reflect its Israeli roots, but the emotional core of this powerful fact-based miniseries hinges on tribalism, the intractability of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the adage that an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. In that, this HBO presentation offers a sobering window into that part of the world, with implications that swell far beyond it.
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Aug 13, 2019
Season 1 Review:
[Mohammed’s family's] well-drawn grief and their confusion is the key reason to watch “Our Boys’s” early going. ... “Our Boys” is paced with a punishing slowness, as if to drag the viewer into the morass of distrust that is contemporary Israel. But it rewards with tough insight, as through Arbid’s and Blal’s performances or in moments when the young people of Israel speak with a horrible clarity, revealing what they’ve learned from their upbringings.
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Aug 9, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Stylistically, it's simultaneously beautifully crafted and painfully sluggish — essentially your finest tapestry of abject misery porn. ... If the viewer does not have a passing knowledge of the innumerable conflicts between secular Israelis and ultra-Orthodox Jews, the socioeconomic stratification of Ashkenazi, Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews, or the in-fighting between extremist factions within Haredi Judaism, then they might be more than a little lost watching this program.
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RogerEbert.com
Aug 12, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The series' intrigue appears to be held together by Shlomi Elkabetz, whose performance as the investigator at the center is calming but weighed down. ... You can too easily imagine "Our Boys" leaving a deeper impression by being half the episode length, or cut into a two-hour movie.
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Seasons & Episodes
- Series Overview
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: August 12, 2019
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S1:E10. A Shaft Into a Dark Tunnel
Air Date: October 7, 2019
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S1:E10. Chapter 10: A Shaft Into a Dark Tunnel
Air Date: October 7, 2019
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S1:E9. The Perfumer and the Tanner
Air Date: September 30, 2019
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S1:E8. Defendants 2 and 3
Air Date: September 23, 2019
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S1:E7. Judging by its End
Air Date: September 16, 2019
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S1:E6. Acceptance of Silence
Air Date: September 9, 2019
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S1:E5. Shabbat Shalom
Air Date: September 2, 2019
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Season 1 Overview