For the new season of Netflix‘s Fauda, the creators are set to confront the Oct. 7 attacks and aftermath.
In an interview with the New York Times ahead of the show‘s fifth season premiering on the streamer Tuesday, Lior Raz describes taking on that day and aftermath in the show is “maybe the most important thing that we ever wrote.” Raz also stars in the series as Doron.
His writing partner, Avi Issacharoff added, “This was something that burned inside us, that we felt we had to spill it out. The pain, the sadness, the catastrophe, the loss of people, the loss of close people. The confusion during that day, the impotence of the Israeli public, but also especially the people that were living there in Gaza’s periphery.”
According to Netflix, the 11-episode season will feature two episodes that take place on Oct. 7, 2023 and follow the characters through their experiences of that day. The rest of the reason will take place two years later. “Two years after October 7th, and haunted by their trauma, Fauda’s fighters embark on a deadly race to stop a catastrophic attack on Israel, forcing them to confront the true cost of fighting the war after the war,“ a synopsis for season five reads.
Given the Gaza war was underway while they planned the season, the NYT reports that “they plotted a story that steered clear of Gaza almost entirely, ranging instead from Europe to Israel with stops elsewhere in the Middle East.“
