Tehran Season 2 Review: A Refined Spy-Thriller Full Of Twists Apple Tv+ Series

Cast: Niv Sultan, Glenn Close, Shaun Toub, Shervin Alenabi, Arash Marandi, Shila Ommi

Director: Daniel Syrkin

Streaming Platform: Apple Tv+

Filmyhype.com Ratings: 4/5 (four stars) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]

Tehran Season 2 is yet another confirmation that the strategy pursued by Apple TV+ is winning. For now, aiming for quality and not quantity has brought so much success to the streaming platform of the Cupertino house, and to see that even an acquisition external to it is of a good level. it only demonstrates the effectiveness of their content model. Suppose the first season had already laid excellent foundations for the construction of an original and adrenaline-charged story, where the conflict between the Mossad and the Iranian counterintelligence was the central pivot of the development of the plot, with the new season. In that case, the clash between the two factions becomes more complex and delicate, violent and problematic.

We are not referring only to the presence of the famous Glenn Close in the role of the spy Marjan Montazeri, but also a change of direction both at a directorial and narrative level. If the camera seems to be less rigid than what we saw in the first season, with so many flickers, variations, and continuous changes in the scene; the writing is more intense and complex, without however losing that immediacy and charm present right from the start with a brilliant final result that opens up to the future.

Tehran Season 2 Review: The Story

Tehran‘s new course opens immediately with electrifying stimuli, unprecedented figures, and a new goal to defeat now that Qasem Mohammadi (played by Vassilis Koukalani), head of the Iranian Revolutionary Forces, has become General, he is the target to be eliminated. Our protagonist, the young spy Tamar Rabinyan (who has the face of Niv Sultan), despite planning her escape with Milad (Shervin Alenabi), is summoned by the Mossad who instructs the expert Marjan Montazeri to coordinate operations. The script of the opera, compared to the first season which certainly flew lower, raises the qualitative bar even more, with an unexpected crescendo that offers, especially in the final part, more and more twists, plots and program changes. The effectiveness of the writing is evident in the moments, very frequent in the new episodes when everything falls apart and the characters have to find alternative solutions and improvise.

It is fascinating to observe the inventiveness, the insight, and the coldness of the Israeli secret agents, but also the cunning of the Iranian counterintelligence, ever closer to discovering the truth. This reveals, at the base of Tehran, not only a superfine characterization of the protagonists and supporting actors but also an effective interlocking of events, situations, effects, and consequences that undoubtedly demonstrates that the authors have clear the starting and ending point of the season. and who manage the development of every single intermediate step very well.

Among other things, considering what happens in the spectacular conclusion, Tamar’s adventures will continue soon, with prospects, if we will, even more brilliant: it, therefore, seems that we must expect an even more marked turning point in the future. The only small discordant note to report is that the starting historical and geopolitical context is taken for granted, therefore, if a minimum of the conflict between Iran and Israel is not known, some fundamental steps could be lost.

Tehran Season 2 Review And Analysis

Even the direction of Tehran makes giant steps: seeing the first season one had the impression that it was always revolving around the same point, with accurate and precise choices, but still limiting. In the second season, however, there is a different atmosphere, even if we start from what has been achieved in the past. Adding elements allows filmmakers to take advantage of entirely new tools and what at first seemed just a “simple” hack has, over time, turned into a much more dangerous game than before.

Essential, to ensure tension and to better manage the rhythm, is the study of the settings that have never been so varied and rich in details, but also the change of points of view of the story., sometimes sudden, which allows us to directly observe the different forces in the field. Some excellences are to be found in the first and pressing episode, with a spectacular extraction operation and the closing episode, which works perfectly, thanks above all to the continuous variables that intrude on the scene, guaranteeing more and more originality.

Another valuable novelty is the very skilled Mossad spy played by Glenn Close who, as we had hypothesized, proves to be a fundamental element for the success of the episodes. It would have been simple and immediate to exploit to the last crumb such a talented (and in some ways cumbersome) presence of the entertainment world, but the wisdom of the authors lies precisely in using the character politely and elegantly, without taking it entirely the reins of the entire series.

In this way, on the one hand, an enhancement of depth to the actress involved is guaranteed, on the other, space is also given to the other characters, both old and new. The cast chosen is of the first level: in addition to Close’s balanced and calm interpretation, one cannot fail to mention the excellent work of Niv Sultan who has grown enormously together with her character and of Shaun Toub, who perfectly highlights the frailties of agent Faraz Kamali who in this season takes a particular path.

Tehran Season 2 Review: The Last Words

Tehran Season returns with an incredible on all points of view: if the writing is surprising because it constructs events, situations, and espionage interlocks perfectly linked to each other, demonstrating research work at the highest levels; the direction is more dynamic than what we have previously and is based on the many innovations introduced in these unprecedented episodes. The real spearhead is Glenn Close, a talented actress who has been fully exploited, without overpowering the other members of the cast, also of great level. Overall, a work that, keeping firmly on the excellent premises of the first season, reinvents itself, looking to an even more promising future.