On the whole, an excellently produced and acted Israeli series. I love the intro design - very clever: ...BUT...there are some unforgivable gaffs. Just a few to get you started: I found Roy Miller as the British officer, James Brown, very unconvincing. He is German and although he tries hard, his German accent often slips through: e. G. he says "off" for "of" and his intonation is very much Germanic rather than public school British. I would have thought that the producers could have found a genuine mother-tongue English actor in Israel with a genuine British officer accent - there are DOZENS of them. Secondly, the British soldiers depicted look like remnants from a defeated rabble army: sloppy, unkempt, poor uniform replication, certainly not troops from His Majesty's army. Thirdly, the Ford truck used by the terror gang in 1938 is very definitely a 1952 model Ford , not a 1938 (or earlier) model. And finally, that stupid anachronistic hat they've given Gabriel to wear! He would have looked much better in a period-appropriate Fedora. However, suspension of disbelief rules and my wife and I are enjoying it.
Review of The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
(2021– )
Generally pretty good - but some disappointing gaffs
4 June 2022
Warning: Spoilers