Review of Alef

It seems like its a one man creation ..with the director being the writer as well..it possibly needed more teamwork to make it better the fact that I fast forward almost half of it..speaks about the problem with the writing ... the detectives are not real ppl but rather a bunch of cliches.( both are tormented by basically the same thing ! ) except one is young and an outsider ( the english was pretty bad for someone who spent half his life in england tho ) ..and the other one is old.. and very old fashioned all of what happens for both of them can be predicted before hand..and while the acting is decent ..the characters never invite any interest and that's half of the show the only interesting part however is the crime itself ..with the marriage between the past and present and the mixture of history and religion ..the way the murders and the clues are researched was interesting and had much more potential than what we actually got ..a better director was needed to make this marriage between past and present a better treat... finally I have a problem with what seems like an agenda ( the social message and taboos ) to attract attention or awards ( abroad especially ) ...the whole thing ended being more pretentious than authentic .. my rating really is all about the idea ..being a history buff.