'Unorthodox': TV Review
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hollywoodreporter.comA spiritual character study in the guise of an international thriller (or possibly vice versa), Netflix's four-part limited series Unorthodox continues a recent wave of distinctively and overtly Jewish-infused programming, following in the footsteps of Amazon's Hunters and HBO's The Plot Against America.
In the case of Unorthodox, inspired by Deborah Feldman's memoirUnorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, I found the character-driven side captivating for its specificity and for the lead performance by Israeli actress Shira Haas (Shtisel).
But a lot of that specificity blurs in the series' thriller moments, which by their nature have to reduce a nuanced subject to an insufficiently explored binary.
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