This Turkish TV drama (8 episodes) follows a police special operations team, codename Wolf. The team is tasked with various police, paramilitary and military missions in Istanbul, and in the northern part of the country as ISIS is invading. Set in 2015, this is set up as historical fiction, and I found the political and nationalist themes fascinating. The Wolf team, and their bosses are fighting both ISIS and the internal subversive elements that have been working for years to undermine the government and the country in favor of a more religious state. Clearly this has elements of propaganda coming from the state, but since I know next to nothing, much of the emotion of nation building does feel pretty authentic, which is quite different than US special ops shows which are more about power, dominance and arrogance.
4 stars (out of 5)
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