Television: Making Dramas About Mideast Can Be Complicated

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Dave Itzkoff

Maggie Gyllenhaal stars in the mini-series “The Honorable Woman.” Credit Des Willie

BRAODCASTING---The fourth episode of “The Honorable Woman,” a serialized thriller that makes its Sundance TV debut on Thursday, opens on a world-weary MI6 officer, sitting at a dinner party where two other guests are discussing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As the camera zooms in on the officer, the conversation can be heard degenerating into a vulgar, name-calling argument and then a silverware-rattling wrestling match. [link]