Sometimes in the age of mediocre streaming television, which increasingly stays away from daring, relevant or artistic pieces, are still pearls. Such is “Mo”, a funny and moving eight -part series about an immigrant, his family and friends in Houston, Texas. Casing before the “sopranos” The prelude is terrific: in the case of the title sequence of the “sopranos” curve of the title hero (Mo Amer) in his gold -colored 1970s Ford Torino through Houston, past landmarks and everyday scenes. Mo bobs into a rapeseed song in his seat, and instead of Tony Sopranos cigar, a flure between his fingers is stuck. The man, whose filling body almost always spans a local patriotic “Houston” shirt, is a cozy appearance, but although he is cool, it boils under the surface, not unlike the constitution of Tony Soprano. For Mo it is the existence as Refugee without papers that threatens to pull the ground away under his feet. When he repairs cell phones in the electronics shop, while he is flat in Spanish with his work colleagues, grows the fear of a raid of the immigration authorities, Mo-he is Palestinians, but in the local lingua franca as well as in the US culture – go his job. From then on, he is wrong with the sale of hot goods from his trunk. The asylum procedure of the Najjar family, who fled from Haifa to Kuwait and from there in the Gulf War in 1991, has been pending for decades, also thanks to incompetent lawyer Rhonda Modad (Cynthia Yelle) , the Mos family mainly hired because she is also a Palestinian woman. Mos Mother Yusra (Farah Bsieso) sticks to her self -pressed olive oil, which acts as a kind of survival elixir. His brother Sameer (Omar Elba), a lovable guy with Asperger tendencies, likes to reveal strangers to the Arabic blasphemy of Mo and his mother, and Mos Sister Nadia (Cherien Dabis) has a strained harmless Canadian, “outside of culture ”, married. After all, she has citizenship, and Mo would also be open to such a way: his girlfriend María (Teresa Ruiz), who runs a car workshop, is an American descent. Mo is too fine, however, to take advantage of the situation, and on the other hand, he does not want to put the wedding to his mother with a Catholic – even if he thinks María is practically Arabic, the Arabs were in Spain for 700 years. Enjoyment to see how Mo Amer, who created the series together with the Egyptian-born comedian Ramy Youssef, unites three languages and four or five cultures in a fast-paced story without any multicultural release. Mos best friend from childhood is the Nigerian Nick Tobe Nwigwe when his “doctor” acts the drug dealer Chien (Michael Y. Kim), who is an Asian descent. These characters are not identifying figures for white with guilty conscience, they are neither pity nor admiration, but are struggling with the absurdities of their existence, quite a few are homemade. They use their ethnic groups for sentimental purposes and take them out of practical considerations, for example when Mo hires in a strip club. External content of YouTube In order to display external content, your revocable approval is necessary. Personal data from third -party platforms (possibly USA) can be processed. More information. External content activate the condemnation of others – the difficult -rich investors in María’s financially battered company, who congratulate themselves on their kind to their kind to a woman from the subclass, or people who greet Mo beaming with “Schalom!” Similar to “Reservation Dogs” for a group of indigenous young people, “Mo” balanced between wit and anger, sunny optimism and the feeling of being overwhelmed by reality. That could hardly be more appropriate at a time when the shadow rooms of the American dream with Donald Trump become even darker as president and hide people out of fear of raids. whose residents were born about a quarter abroad. The music of local sizes such as Big Pokey and Fat Pat Wummert in Mos Schlitten, the Texas rapper Bun B plays a Catholic priest who decreases the confession on the edge of the nervous breakdown. , and the fidel -playing olive farmer Buddy (Walt Roberts), to the Mo a small transmitter to persecute olive thieves. “Looks like building a bomb,” Buddy notes. Mo asks confidently: “Because I’m Arabic? If Manny did this, would you think that too? “Buddy thinks briefly and then says:” Why would Manny build a bomb? “Mo starts at Netflix today.
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