Must-Read TV

摘要

As I was watching tyrant, fx's new drama about the Americanized son of a Middle Eastern dictator returning to his homeland, I noticed something strange about the characters: I could understand them. That is, all the characters-American and native-born Arabs alike-spoke nothing but English. A few years ago, this would have been unremarkable, Tyrant, though shot in Israel with many Middle Eastern actors, is made by a U.S. network for U.S. audiences, who once expected foreign characters visiting their screens to have the common decency to talk American like God intended.