SummaryThe second Israeli miniseries about the 2003 attack on Israel by Hamas on October 7th (HBO Max's One Day in October is the other) was created, written and directed by Lior Chefetz. [Also premieres on Keshet 12 in Israel on 7 Oct 2025]
SummaryThe second Israeli miniseries about the 2003 attack on Israel by Hamas on October 7th (HBO Max's One Day in October is the other) was created, written and directed by Lior Chefetz. [Also premieres on Keshet 12 in Israel on 7 Oct 2025]
I’m honestly not quite sure which audience is going to crave a series like Red Alert, but I can vouch that despite occasional irritatingly visible attempts to evoke response, it’s breathlessly effective.
As the world watches and waits to see if peace can be achieved, one thing is clear: “Red Alert” and “One Day in October” are stories that vividly show the price without it.
I was very moved by the series. It is absolutely harrowing and gripping. The cast is phenomenal, especially Rotem Sela, Israel Attias and more. It is must-see.
Although the series is reducing the scenes of much more violent events, probably to make it watchable, it well written and shows real life characters and their heroic actions with good actors.Must watch
Red Alert tries its best to show the harrowing experience of October 7 in southern Israel while concentrating on the heroic acts that happened that day. It’s a balance that’s at times hard to maintain but it is also worth watching.
“Red Alert” attempts to cleave away everything but the immediate and subjective. .... It’s thus the very elements that make “Red Alert” such an affecting watch that also make the show an inherently impossible effort. .... “Red Alert” otherwise excels at capturing the confusion and occasional absurdity of the chaos victims were left to navigate for themselves.
“Red Alert,” created by Lior Chefetz, is the more conventional in form, working in the familiar mode of terrorism drama. .... Kinetic, somber and emotionally intense, it could be any number of streaming-TV terrorism thrillers, but for the fact that its action heroes are ordinary people.
Crouched in a defensive posture, Red Alert and One Day in October are responding to an argument they’re not naming, even as they try to appear bold. .... One Day in October holds up Taasa’s grief like a blinding torch, so bright and overwhelming that the thousands of grieving parents who live mere miles from her have been obscured. Occasionally, though — in Red Alert especially — the camera drifts over to a shot of Gaza, shining high-rises looming in the distance.
A must-watch. They clearly chose to tone down the horrors of that miserable day, most likely because showing the full extent would have been too gruesome to bear. Even so, it was powerfully and thoughtfully done.