SummaryDr. Barry Al-Fayeed (Adam Rayner) and his family travel from California to his homeland for his nephew's wedding, where he must confront his dictator father and the issues he left behind 20-years ago.
Created By:Howard Gordon, Gideon Raff, Craig Wright
❮ Tyrant
Season 1
Season Premiere:
Jun 24, 2014
Metascore
Mixed or Average
54
User score
Generally Favorable
7.8
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
42% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
42% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
15% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Jun 24, 2014
91
Tyrant is the most engrossing new show of the summer.... Gordon’s razor-sharp timing, a skill honed on “24,” serves Tyrant well.
Jun 24, 2014
70
It's just a good story, cleverly told. It's not going to resolve the troubles in the Middle East, but then again, neither has anything else.
User score
Generally Favorable
79% Positive
119 Ratings
119 Ratings
10% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
11% Negative
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
Feb 19, 2018
10
Excellent lesson of life! Life never happens as we would have expected and following that we still have bad choices! When we idealize the choices we make the fall is even higher.
Sep 17, 2015
10
This was a great show and so real! wonderful characters..well writte; Hope it is renewed because there is much more to the story than what has been told!
Jun 20, 2014
67
Gordon has said that he's trying to dramatize the "complexity" of the Middle East, but there's not a lot of depth to the pilot.... If there's one thing that saves Tyrant, it's Bassam. By the end of the pilot, he's not the boring, all-moral hero that he seems.
Jun 19, 2014
60
The pilot is strong and closes with a cliffhanger element that should bring back a sizeable chunk of the tune-in audience.... but having no other episodes to find out in what direction the series wants to go--not just with Barry/Bassam, but where the core of its stories will come from (family or politics), means it’s too early to give a definitive endorsement to Tyrant, despite its potential.
Jun 24, 2014
42
Too often subsumed by the show’s desire to make a grand statement and its inability to realize that often gets in the way of just telling a compelling story.
Jun 20, 2014
40
As Barry struggles with his sense of identity, so does this series. There is little consistency of tone here, and the efforts to depict a realistic Middle Eastern political struggle are undermined by campy and melodramatic moments.
Jun 24, 2014
0
It's surprising to me that this ever got past the development stage, because nothing about Tyrant truly works. It's a halting, strained hodgepodge that ends up being an awkward mixture of bland and offensive.
Aug 9, 2015
10
I have found t his to be one of the most addicting shows on tevelvision at the moment. Great story, cast, plot, characters & acting. this show makes it hard for you to say anything bad about it. i think the bad reviews come from people who have only seen an episode or two. this show gets 2 thumbs up.
Jul 30, 2014
4
I thought this show was going to be really good, but I've been disappointed. Each episode has been too similar to one another. Jamaal is clearly the best character with his brother, but the show could be so much better. I've given up on the show.
Aug 11, 2014
3
It could be so interesting given the production value. However, I feel it would be more relevant if there were more focus on the political struggle on the Middle Eastern inhabitants and less on Barry/Bassam simply awful family. The wife is so annoying with her repetitive ‘are you ok’ on constant loop and their god awful children portrayed as the most selfish inane useless parodies of the worst teenage stereotype. I feel it’s cheap, tacky and tasteless and its visuals are way too clean and polished considering the abject violence. It is verging on the patronising, spoon feeding every scene with a flashback to remind the viewer of their viewpoint. Personally I find it a tad vulgar.
Jul 23, 2014
3
I'm always wary of dramas set in fictional countries ruled by rough talking men dressed in gaudy uniforms, and this one quickly lived down to my low expectations. The lead actor has all the personality of a piece of lox, and those who are arrayed against him are cartoonish in their personae. Then there's the US diplomat, John Tucker, who presumably represents the American position in this festering bogus nation, and yet we are really given no idea as to what that position is. And does the guy have an office? Where's the American Embassy, and does anyone else work there?
