Scales Review: A Visually Compelling Feminist Parable Featuring Mermaids Scales Review: A Visually Compelling Feminist Parable Featuring Mermaids
Saudi helmer-writer Shahad Ameen offers a bold, and boldly visual, take on the position of women in a patriarchal society.
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The position of Saudi women as second-class citizens receives a potent metaphoric visualization in Saudi helmer-writer Shahad Ameen’s parable-like debut drama, “Scales.” Revealing more through imagery than dialogue, the tale unfolds on a barren island where tradition dictates that each family sacrifice a daughter to the sea maidens to ensure the local fishermen a good catch. , with the taut first third particularly strong. But the narrative’s momentum and clarity dissipate in the middle and final sections even as the visuals continue to impress. Still, the boldly inventive “Scales” marks Ameen as a talent to watch.
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The eight-part series focus on the true story of a notorious Saudi Arabian criminal in the 1980s.
The show, which will premiere on July 9, is the brainchild of British television screenwriter, Tony Jordan, known for Hustle and EastEnders, who wrote the show alongside Sheikha Suha Al Khalifa and Richard Bellamy.
The series tells the story of a convicted murderer and drug trafficker, who was finally caught by police in the late 1980s. It will centre on a young police officer named Fahd who makes it his mission to arrest Rashash.
The show partly shot in Abu Dhabi with support from local media hub twofour54 features an all-Saudi cast in the lead roles. The actors underwent special weapons training prior to filming, trained by special armourers flown in from India.
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For the first time in GCC television history, arrives a screen adaptation of a true story of a notorious 1980s criminal in Saudi Arabia and the police’s efforts to bring him in.
The new series, dubbed ‘Rashash’, will launch on January 21 on Shahid VIP, a subscription video on demand service from MBC Group. Nayef Al Dhufairi in Rashash .
‘Rashash’, which will air a new one-hour episode every Thursday, is an eight-part Arabic series with English subtitles, created by British screenwriter Tony Jordan (‘EastEnders’) and co-written by Sheikha Suha Al Khalifa and Richard Bellamy.
According to a statement, the series will track “the notorious murderer and drug trafficker, who was finally caught by the police in Saudi Arabia in the late 1980s … [It] follows the early beginnings of Rashash right through to his capture, with the core focus of the drama centred on a young police officer (Fahd) who makes it his mission to end Rashash’s reign of terror and d