Season 4 of “Fauda” arrives on Netflix this Friday, January 20. This is an opportunity to discover, after binge-watching, other spy series so as not to remain unsatisfied.
With its fourth season arriving on January 20, Fauda is one of the longest spy series of Netflix, notes the site Collider. As a framework, the Israeli series observes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the eyes of its spy characters. To satisfy their thirst for thriller, fans of the genre can turn to other works. This is the case, for example, of The Spy, mini-series co-produced by OCS and available on the platform since 2020. It features actor Sacha Baron Cohen. Better known for his comic roles (like the burlesque journalist Borat, from the eponymous film), he takes on the darker costume of Eli Cohen, an Israeli agent infiltrating the Syrian government in the 1960s.
Spy series are also an opportunity to show strong and touching female characters. The Swedish series Caliphate, released in 2020, stands out for its choral side. With no less than five languages spoken in his scenes (Turkish, Arabic, English, Swedish and Bosnian), she tells her story through the perspective of five women. Among them, a spy in charge of countering the plans of a terrorist nicknamed the Traveller, who plans to commit an attack in Sweden.
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More recently, the German series Kléo released in August 2022 on Netflix is also worth a look. Inscribed in the Berlin of 1990, shortly after the fall of the Wall, it follows the trajectory of Kleo, East German spy who lost her baby behind bars and seeking revenge. Because of her background as a Stasi agent, she attracts the attention of a West German policeman, Sven. During their cooperation, they have to face several antagonists, many of them women. All this through frantic and whimsical action scenesworthy of films of the genre.