‘The Veil’ (2024) Series Review - Light-Paced and Ambitious

The first two episodes can be seen as the beginning of something that'll change the course of revelations drastically. I'm not satisfied with how the show started, due to the many unspoken words and hints given, but I still think that the show has a lot of potential.

Elisabeth Moss is playing an undercover agent working for French intelligence and she's been assigned the task of delivering a woman of utmost importance who could be an ISIS commander. Adilah, the woman being talked about here claims innocence, but as Imogen thinks and believes, she is one of the most wanted women in the world. Having the blood of so many people on your hands has its consequences hence, the American and French want her back.

Being rescued from Syria, the journey for these women wasn't easy. Though Imogen is like a tigress waiting for her enemy to make one wrong move, Adilah won't let her guard down so easily. The faint expressions delivered by Moss show her under-tapped potential which the audience would wish would come out in the future. At this point, with just four episodes left, the story needs to catch up with its pace, otherwise, it's going to be another disappointment.

The shooting locations including the camp, Istanbul and Paris have been fully utilized. The audience is left hungry and agitated at the same moment due to the lack of any promise of a good story. By looking at the trailer of The Veil we know that a lot has to come and it also points in the direction of Adilah being the ISIS commander in question. Despite that, we never know if the hint was in the right direction or not because sometimes trailers can be misleading to pique the interest of the audience. However, if it turns out to be true then we have two powerful women going against odds to prove their worth.

Lifting Adilah’s veil seems difficult as the secrets seem to be popping up all over the place. Imogen might not even be Moss’s real name in the show and after her character picks up many faces, there might come a time when she fails to differentiate right from wrong. There were times when Imogen/ MI 6 lost track of her assignment and overstepped. This case isn't much different and this time too, the decisions she'll take might prove to backfire her.

Adilah is suspected of planting an attack in the States within a time frame of seven to ten days and this is what makes Imogen’s time to act short. The spy thriller is in my opinion a ticking bomb that'll result in everyone's attempt to fail. The usage of the elements of a spy thriller and exaggeration of things went against the show, and it will come as a disappointment to many.

To sum it all up, the spy thriller The Veil has a doubtful future and the impact it has created till now is next to nothing. Apart from waiting for the remaining four episodes, there's not much to say. In the majority of cases, by the second episode or by the end of the first episode, it becomes clear if the show will be exciting, but in this scenario, things are complex and closely knitted.

Final Score – [6/10]
Reviewed by - Riya Singh
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Publisher at Midgard Times