*major spoilers* I'm confused...

I'll give it a whirl, but it's just my two pence/cents.

What it was about was not centered on the various goings on with the characters or who kidnapped Kassim, or other character outcomes, which are important but not the linch pin.

--I believe what Hugo Blick wanted to do was write an Israeli/Palestinian story that charted the journeys of several different entities and show how EVERYBODY in that whole world has some kind of agenda--some positive but naïve like Nessa.

--Then as her opposite was Zahid Al-Zahid. He obviously started out as a youth dedicated to the Palestine homeland.

However, we see that after his family was hit by a Stein bomb, he just became a one-note violent psychopath, committing murders in the most systematic way against Nessa's family. So we find the agenda behind all of his actions had long since ceased to be about Palestine per se. It was ALL personal. His agenda was entirely personal. He wasn't working for any higher cause at all.

--Whereas Atika embodied the pure Palistinian cause--her lifelong agenda. Which is why she behaved as she did toward Zahid when he revealed himself to her and she realized he had poisoned her cause with banal revenge.

--Ephram's very narrow agenda was to free the Israeli soldier, and he naively got into something over his head that had terrible repercussions. He was an amateur messing with the big dogs and he got burned. So his agenda was disastrous. So it set in motion other bad things.

--Atika was an idealist playing the long game and made a life of sacrifice for her honourable cause. And died defending it. And died defending her Israeli-British friend and son as well. So the ideological borders were there, her love for her country absolute, but both Nessa and Atika each crossed their divides because they loved and cared for one another. So that wasn't a simple division either. Their relationship was the epitome of complicated.

--Then there were the big players--the puppet masters with THEIR agendas. The U.S. co-opted an Mi6 agent to try to get a two-state solution. That Mi6 agent however was not working for her country or supporting her ally, the U.S.

--Monica was out entirely for herself and for herself ONLY. That was HER agenda. Self-promotion and become head of Mi6 no matter how many people had to die along the way under the cover of the gambit she was working.

She pretended to be working on an agenda that was positive for the region but it was purely personal. She had no dedication whatsoever to working toward any kind of solution for the region.

--So in the end it was all about agendas. Some honourable. Some just about power. Some about idealistic agendas but some descended into nothing at all but constant violence and killing.

--And then the viperous El-Amin; his agenda was profit, profit, profit. He wanted the whole shebang, the cables and Nessa's entire company for that matter. He had no allegiances except to profit.

I think Blick was trying to say: Look, do you see now why this situation with Palestine and Israel is so complicated? And has gone on for so long without proper resolution?

Because SO many people have competing agendas of their own and everybody's entrenched in them and it's just so damned complicated, we cannot get forward movement or permanent solutions.

It was a broad stroke series. But he imbued it with strong characters representing the agendas.

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