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United States of Al

  • TV Series
  • 2021–20222021–2022
  • TV-PGTV-PG
  • 30m
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6.3/10
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Dean Norris, Adhir Kalyan, Kelli Goss, Parker Young, Elizabeth Alderfer, and Farrah Mackenzie in United States of Al (2021)
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The friendship between Riley, a Marine combat veteran struggling to readjust to civilian life in Ohio, and Awalmir, the Afghan interpreter who served with his unit and has just arrived to st... Read allThe friendship between Riley, a Marine combat veteran struggling to readjust to civilian life in Ohio, and Awalmir, the Afghan interpreter who served with his unit and has just arrived to start a new life in America.The friendship between Riley, a Marine combat veteran struggling to readjust to civilian life in Ohio, and Awalmir, the Afghan interpreter who served with his unit and has just arrived to start a new life in America.
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
2.9K
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POPULARITY
1,704
829
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    • Creators
      • Maria Ferrari
      • David Goetsch
    • Stars
      • Parker Young
      • Adhir Kalyan
      • Elizabeth Alderfer
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    • Creators
      • Maria Ferrari
      • David Goetsch
    • Stars
      • Parker Young
      • Adhir Kalyan
      • Elizabeth Alderfer
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    • 117User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
    • Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys
      • 4 nominations total

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    Parker Young
    Parker Young
    • Riley
    35 episodes35 eps • 2021–2022
    Adhir Kalyan
    Adhir Kalyan
    • Al
    35 episodes35 eps • 2021–2022
    Elizabeth Alderfer
    Elizabeth Alderfer
    • Lizzie
    35 episodes35 eps • 2021–2022
    Dean Norris
    Dean Norris
    • Art
    35 episodes35 eps • 2021–2022
    Farrah Mackenzie
    Farrah Mackenzie
    • Hazel
    29 episodes29 eps • 2021–2022
    Kelli Goss
    Kelli Goss
    • Vanessa
    24 episodes24 eps • 2021–2022
    Brian Thomas Smith
    Brian Thomas Smith
    • Freddy
    14 episodes14 eps • 2021–2022
    Amanda Payton
    Amanda Payton
    • Holly
    10 episodes10 eps • 2021–2022
    Rachel Bay Jones
    Rachel Bay Jones
    • Lois
    9 episodes9 eps • 2021–2022
    Azita Ghanizada
    Azita Ghanizada
    • Ariana
    8 episodes8 eps • 2021–2022
    Blake Clark
    Blake Clark
    • Wayne
    7 episodes7 eps • 2021–2022
    Jayma Mays
    Jayma Mays
    • Cindy
    6 episodes6 eps • 2022
    John Ross Bowie
    John Ross Bowie
    • Brett
    5 episodes5 eps • 2021–2022
    Wali Habib
    Wali Habib
    • Zubair
    5 episodes5 eps • 2021–2022
    Sitara Attaie
    Sitara Attaie
    • Hassina
    5 episodes5 eps • 2021
    Hayden Crawford
    Hayden Crawford
    • Shawn
    4 episodes4 eps • 2021
    Zarmina Hamidi
    • Gul Bashra
    4 episodes4 eps • 2021–2022
    Jimmy Walker Jr.
    Jimmy Walker Jr.
    • Walt
    3 episodes3 eps • 2021
    • Creators
      • Maria Ferrari
      • David Goetsch
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      After the first trailer aired in March 2021, the series was criticized for casting a non-Afghan actor in the title role, and for the character's depiction in general. One of the show's executive producers, Reza Aslan, responded to the criticism, tweeting, "Maybe learn a little about the show, its creators, its producers, its four Afghan writers, its plot, and pretty much everything else before you announce your opinion of it. Just a thought."

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    3/10
    A Show Needing More Substance, Better Writing, and Better Acting
    I tried watching this show when it first began broadcasting, and it stuck me as shallow and unrealistic. Watching the opener tonight for the second season, I'm heartened that the show is finally attempting to deal with the serious issues surrounding Afghanistan and now it's fall to the Taliban. Having spent time in the Middle East and having also been evacuated from a country there during a revolution, the circumstances under those kinds of conditions are much more traumatic and emotional than what still comes across in this sitcom. The show doesn't display adequately and realistically enough the kind of emotional roller coaster that people actually experience during these kinds of events where one worries if one will live or die. I don't know if the problem lies with the writing, the acting, the directing, or all three, but this show need serious revamping that gets us, the audience, involved in the emotional anxiety of these characters. It is more comforting to not feel like we are living the problems others are having, and so we tend to distant ourselves as people sometimes do traveling with a tour group in some foreign country where they watch everything from the windows of their bus or train with always a barrier between the society we have come to explore and the sanitized environment provided by the tour. We need to be drawn in, and doing this now, is so very, very important because so many of us living in our isolated worlds have trouble even having empathy for our neighbors, let alone for people who have had everything torn away from them. This first show of this second season is an improvement over what came before, but we audience members must be taken to the places where the real people trying to get out of Afghanistan are or to those left there to live under Taliban rule live. Unfortunately, we are still keeping the TV screen between us and them.
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    • Oct 8, 2021

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    • Release date
      • April 1, 2021 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Соединённые Штаты Ала
    • Filming locations
      • Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • BoomGen Studios
      • Chuck Lorre Productions
      • Warner Bros. Television
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    • Runtime
      30 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 16:9 HD

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