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Tyrant Review - "Hail Mary" Review by Brandon Wolfe ‘Tyrant’ picks up the thread from last week with the public protest against President Jamal still raging on, the flames being fanned by the rebellious Ihab Rashid. Bassam has taken it upon himself to resolve this crisis peacefully, to redeem his family name after the years of violent tyranny perpetrated by his father. He has set a meeting with Rashid to try to talk things out, but Bassam shows some savviness when he cancels the meeting at the last minute, realizing that Rashid would just use it as an opportunity to grandstand in front of his followers rather than engage in a dialogue. Bassam finds a new tack to pursue, or rather a new Rashid. Twenty years prior, Bassam’s father and Ihab’s father, Sheik Rashid, came extremely close to a peaceful resolution before things ended up going south and Sheik went into exile. Who better, Bassam figures, to bring about peace now than the only man who ever came close to pulling it ...

Is the new FX show worth your time? Review by Brandon Wolfe  California-based pediatrician Bassam “Barry” Al-Fayeed (Adam Rayner) is feeling uneasy. He and his family have been invited to attend his nephew’s wedding and he hasn’t seen his relatives in many years. He is apprehensive about the impending family reunion and alludes to a rough upbringing. This seems like a perfectly relatable issue until you take into account that Bassam’s father is the president of the (fictional) war-torn Middle Eastern country of Abbudin and that those rough childhood memories include assassination attempts and street executions. Bassam’s reluctant homecoming is the catalyst of FX’s new series ‘Tyrant’ as he, his wife Molly (Jennifer Finnigan) and two teenage children, closeted son Sammy (Noah Silver) and dismissive daughter Emma (Anne Winters), make the trek to Abbudin. Molly, as all-American-blonde as is humanly possible, has grown weary of Bassam’s increasing distance and bel...