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Critic Reviews
Jan 12, 2026
Season 3 Review:
His [director Daniel Syrkin's] choreography of the action, along with the overall restraint he elicits from the cast, keeps us attentive despite the extremities of the plotting and the occasional woodenness of the writing, at least in translation. The show is beginning to have an echo-chamber quality — we’ve been watching the same people in crisis in the same place for a while now — but it can still suck you in.
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The TelegraphMay 6, 2022
Season 2 Review:
Tense, atmospheric and now with Glenn Close bringing her movie-star heft, it’s a corkscrewing drama that paints a nuanced portrait of a country often caricatured as one-dimensionally theocratic and anti-Western. Just as importantly, it ratchets up the tension with bruising panache.
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The TelegraphSep 25, 2020
May 10, 2022
Season 2 Review:
Tics like these are easy enough to overlook in an action-oriented spy thriller; more bothersome is how the new season adds love to Tamar’s motivations (and encumbrances), a move that jacks up the emotional stakes but makes the drama squishier and a little less interesting. The show does fine with the prickly, mature relationship of Faraz and Naahid, but Tamar and Milad’s romance doesn’t rise above cliché, and Sultan and Alenabi don’t bring much heat to it.
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Sep 25, 2020
Season 1 Review:
As television, the show, created by Moshe Zonder (previously the head writer of Israeli series “Fauda”) is flawed: At least a few episodes too long, lacking plausibility or tension, turgid when it wants to be zippy. ... “Tehran” doesn’t exclude Iranians entirely, but does frame them as allies or obstacles of a Mossad mission depicted uncritically and somewhat blankly as the work of justice, and more than that as a vehicle for thrills and scares.
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