I really enjoyed this show from a pure entertainment perspective. Casting, acting, directing was superb. But the story was soooo frustrating in so many ways. Plot holes were created to serve the narrative; to further the story w/out any credibility whatsoever. To wit: If you're surveilling a bad guy then, IDK, maybe have a full time tracker on his girlfriend/mother/wife/military commander who can lead you right to him? And if you know the bad guys have a personal vendetta against your entire family then, IDK, maybe take your bodyguards along with you when you go out and about? And how many times does this elite unit enter buildings w/out a single one of them guarding the backdoor? Ooops! Bad guy got away again, what a surprise. There seemed to be nothing elite about this unit. Any other show and each of these buffoons would've been called up for incompetence. Basic. Come on.

Shameful and one sided Disappointed and disgusted

A non realistic tv series, with a lot of changes on the real stories

The many 10/10 reviews for 'Fauda' are a bit perplexing? A series without any flaws?Undoubtedly realistic action scenes, I'm sure popular with Netflix who are trying to create a homegrown 'Homeland' I suppose, but I don't think 'Fauda' is great drama. Sure, some of the acting was great, but some less so, seemed to be a lot of 'workshopping' of ideas going on. Absence of a script? On a more personal note, weren't the women characters much more complex and interesting than the men, credit to actors Laetitia Eido and Rona-Lee Shim'on (and Hanan Hillo in the first season)? The so-called 'realism' of the series also seems rather flimsy. In Season 2, leading character Doron loses his father and lover in the space of 24 hours, both deaths of which he's partly responsible for, and then after a bit of moping around at home and a helpful barbie from his mates he's back on the road again to wipe out his nemesis ... No, sorry if it upsets the glowing reviews but I don't think you can call 'Fauda' serious drama.For me, the profoundly depressing thing about it is its one-dimensional subject matter. OK, at its core 'Fauda' is about an Israeli-backed intelligence unit that infiltrates the Palestinian territories to root out suspected terrorist cells. Although I've never read about nor seen TV reports directly related to these activities, very little in 'Fauda' surprised/engaged me. It didn't tell me anything I didn't already know really.Unfortunately, the series features nothing really about the causes of terrorism, the complexities of Arab-Israeli relations and the need to find peaceful solutions of co-existence. It's true you learn things about the people in the situations portrayed, realistic according to many who have posted reviews up here, but it all seems superficial on a personal level. Violence overwhelms the attempts at drama and 'Fauda' doesn't challenge our view of the situation in the West Bank and Gaza, only reinforces stereotypes and seems to excuse all the violence and destruction. I'm not going to give it a 1/10 review because frankly that would be as ridiculous as 10 out of 10, in a limited way 'Fauda' works very well. I found the series to be rather limited in its outlook. To read the publicity surrounding it, you'd think they were trying for something different here? Nah, sorry guys, 5 out of 10!