Network: FX
Episodes: 32 (hour)
Seasons: Three
TV show dates: June 24, 2014 — September 7, 2016
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Adam Rayner, Ashraf Barhom, Moran Atias, Jennifer Finnigan, Anne Winters, Noah Silver, Mehdi Dehbi, Fares Fares, Alice Krige, Salim Daw, and Justin Kirk.
TV show description:
This dramatic series follows the story of an unassuming American family that’s drawn into the inner workings of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation.
Bassam “Barry” Al-Fayeed (Adam Rayner) is the youngest son of a war-torn country’s controversial dictator. He returns to his homeland for his nephew’s wedding after a self-imposed 20-year exile in America. Upon his return, Barry is immediately thrown back into the familial and national politics of his youth.
He braces himself to confront the stark realities of his father and older brother Jamal’s (Ashraf Barhom) harsh rule, and finds himself at odds with Jamal’s wife, Leila (Moran Atias). She believes strongly in a firm, unforgiving regime.
Although Barry’s wife Molly (Jennifer Finnigan) struggles to comprehend her husband’s apprehension, Barry is unable and unwilling to make his all-American family understand his unease over returning home.
Emma (Anne Winters), their 17-year-old daughter, adores her father and shares his disdain for the extravagances of her extended family. Meanwhile, their son, 16-year-old Sammy (Noah Silver), revels in the lavish lifestyle that their “royal” status brings. He also dangerously tests cultural divides with his poorly disguised interest in the family’s handsome bodyguard, Abdul (Mehdi Dehbi).
Barry’s only warm memory of his childhood — his boyhood friend Fauzi (Fares Fares) — wants nothing to do with him. Fauzi is now a journalist, whose reports on the abuses of the Al-Fayeed rule resulted in his arrest and torture.
Now, Barry must now confront the life he once fled. With his father’s health in decline, everyone — Jamal, their mother Amira (Alice Krige), their father’s top advisor Yussef (Salim Daw), and even easygoing US diplomat John Tucker (Justin Kirk) — expects him to assume a more active role in both the family and the regime.
Episode #32 — Two Graves
Barry and Molly are on the brink of waging war on the Caliphate. Leila makes a bold political move and braves the possibility of a close betrayal. Barry and Daliyah face a final reckoning in their relationship. The conflict in Abuddin threatens to turn into a bloody civil war.
First aired: September 7, 2016.
What do you think? Do you like the Tyrant TV series? Do you think it should have been cancelled or renewed for a fourthseason?
All of my entire family, from my 20 something year old’s to my 18 yr old to my 55 year old husband and sister….. LOVE….. the TYRANT series…..it is FANTASTIC, the acting, the story line, the plot, twisting and turning,……please do not….cancell this show, anyone that has seen it loves it just give it more EXPOSURE, so that more people can enjoy it!!!
Please RENEW this great show !!!
Never understood who told Jamal about the plans to overthrow him and if the guard members were actually on the plane that blew up.
Best show I have seen in a long time! Please renew!
My husband and I think it is one of the greatest shows. Please do not cancel series and have several more seasons to continue this show.
PLEASE RENEW THIS SERIES. EXCELLENT DRAMA, INTERESTING VIEW OF MIDEASTERN PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE. GREAT ACTING
This is the only show that has kept me waiting! Please don’t take it away. I have no idea why everyone is not watching this.
renew it love this show!!!!!
Love this show!!!!!
We love the show.. Please continue
the finale 8/29 left little doubt as to the outcome,therefore what would be the purpose of more episodes..the grieving family, the US intervening as usual etc. It should have ended with them all getting on the plane with Barry the foolish idealist and leave it at that.
The moral of the story being don’t mess with things that are not of imminent danger to the US and intervene when there is imminent danger. Leave Assad, leave Hussein and the next dictator as long as they do not threaten us. The ambassador, Tucker was as big a fool as Barry.
This has been a very enjoyable and important television show. We are people who rarely watch TV dramas, but this one has us hooked. Please renew this excellent show.
This may be the best drama series on television. It’s nearly Shakespearean in its plot, complex characters, and intensity. If this show gets cancelled, I may have to stop watching all television–it’ll seem like a waste in comparison.
Please renew asap!
Loved it!! Very entertaining! Please renew