The Promise: powerful TV drama at its best | World news | guardian.co.uk
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I was lucky enough to see a preview of The Promise, the Peter Kosminsky four-part drama that switches between mandate-era #Palestine and present-day Israel and the Palestinian territories, the first episode of which aired on Channel 4 last night.
I wanted to write about it before it started showing, but Egypt intervened. Having just finished watching the whole series, I’m left drained and exhausted by its harrowing depiction of both periods, and the parallels it draws between them.