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Tyrant Television Review – Pilot

Is the new FX show worth your time? Review by Brandon Wolfe  California-based pediatrician Bassam “Barry” Al-Fayeed (Adam Rayner) is feeling uneasy. He and his family have been invited to attend his nephew’s wedding and he hasn’t seen his relatives in many years. He is apprehensive about the impending family reunion and alludes to a rough upbringing. This seems like a perfectly relatable issue until you take into account that Bassam’s father is the president of the (fictional) war-torn Middle Eastern country of Abbudin and that those rough childhood memories include assassination attempts and street executions. Bassam’s reluctant homecoming is the catalyst of FX’s new series ‘Tyrant’ as he, his wife Molly (Jennifer Finnigan) and two teenage children, closeted son Sammy (Noah Silver) and dismissive daughter Emma (Anne Winters), make the trek to Abbudin. Molly, as all-American-blonde as is humanly possible, has grown weary of Bassam’s increasing distance and believe