Honestly I was not too impressed by the first 20 minutes of the pilot. This blonde cocky girl shows up at a refugee camp with a bad attitude and somehow she easily fools everyone else in the camp and she gets one over all of them. I didn't find it very believable and I had some question marks over some of the acting as well.
Fortunately the show quickly finds its feet with a really tense scene where one of the refugee women is recognized as a top level ISIS commander, and from there on the mystery starts to build and never lets go.
The question that will provide most of the mystery and forward momentum is also established, who is Adaliah El Indrissi, really? Is she a nefarious ISIS commander or a woman and mother whos has been led astray?
Elisabeth Moss and Yumna Marwan find a decent chemistry pretty early on and I think their acting skills will be a key factor whether The Veil will be really good or just another decent who-are-you-really mystery.
Fortunately the show quickly finds its feet with a really tense scene where one of the refugee women is recognized as a top level ISIS commander, and from there on the mystery starts to build and never lets go.
The question that will provide most of the mystery and forward momentum is also established, who is Adaliah El Indrissi, really? Is she a nefarious ISIS commander or a woman and mother whos has been led astray?
Elisabeth Moss and Yumna Marwan find a decent chemistry pretty early on and I think their acting skills will be a key factor whether The Veil will be really good or just another decent who-are-you-really mystery.
