Homeland: Big Man in Tehran (2013)
Season 3, Episode 11
2/10
The story was shocking, but that was nothing close to Tehran
13 December 2013
Warning: Spoilers
I liked the story. it was good and catchy somehow. but soooo many mistakes about Iran.

almost everything they showed about Iran is wrong. the streets are not like this. darvazeh ghar is not even close to this in the looks, people in this episode spoke stupid farsi - I'm Iranian and I assure you none of these actors where speaking fluently. some sentences were not even understandable. and also, a very big goof. in the scene that javadi and akbari are talking together about brody, javadi repeats this question twice, right after the other: "potentially, with huge propaganda value"...

and the last, but not least, in Farsi, breaking news is "خبر فوری", not "خبر عاجل". the latter is Arabic. like many other sentences that "Iranians" were saying.

I'm not saying this to say that it was bad. but they could at least try a little harder to use real Iranians. most of the Iranian cast were Arabs. I hate it to see that Iranians sunk so low that they are represented by Arabs. we have more than enough Iranians in America to help them.
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