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So, Yasmin AbdEl Aziz's facebook page is getting a healthy dose of photos of her playing different characters. She might be involved in some kind of sketch comedy show? or maybe a game show? I don't know, facebook keeps on translating the captions as "Escape from her".

But anyhow she is wearing red hair again for some reason. She doesn't seem to be a comedic character either, so if I make an icon out of this I will only need to use the crop tool and uh...


I really wish I could read Arabic so I could at understand a bit more about what is going on with these pictures.

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And upon some googling, I have found out that whatever it is, it has been placed on youtube by the showrunners apparently? Based on the cute animated intro, it may be worth a watch later. Like, maybe tomorrow. Before Ramadan ends, maybe? I have no clue.

The animated intro itself may be very iconable. Animated icons!

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She plays a different character every episode? So far there is no continuity that I can discern. And her characters are all walking disasters?

Who knows, I don't understand very much Arabic and I am only two episodes in.

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Episode 3: House warming party but marital problems and everyone wants to screw but Egypt and THIS IS A FAMILY FRIENDLY SHOW DAMMIT and it becomes a house burning party instead.

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Episode 4: Ghost housemates are annoying

Also, are these all hallucinations of a woman in the hospital? Is that the continuity here?

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Episode 5: The dangers of putting a tracking device on your spouse.

Also, hell, Yasmin looks a lot like a young Carrie Fisher in this one.

Also, what is with the lady in the hospital? Are these stories she's telling? She's up and walking about now, and threatening folks with her cane.

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Episode 6: A funeral and THE OTHER WOMAN!

Also, oh gosh, do Egyptians really pronounce Ramses as if it were spelled Ramsey? That is adorable.

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Episode 7: Marital problems and an almost divorce? Wait, wasn't there a funeral last episode? Did we switch parents? You know what, screw continuity.

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Episode 9: The dangers of listening to a friend who has been cheated on more times than she can count. :(

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Episode 10: The worst nurse ever and how she met her dumbass husband.

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Episode 8: I forgot to mention this episode because I can't even. There is a guy who turns into a rapey creep at the end for some reason, out of nowhere?

Thank God this show has no laugh track.

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Episode 11: The worst nurse ever and her dumbass husband are assholes. Also their parents start dating but their kids are still assholes. Where did this continuity come from?

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Episode 12: OMG THE REDHEADED CHARACTER

AND SHE'S ROBBING A JEWELERY STORE UNDER THE PRETENSE OF DISARMING AN IED

so... Episode 12: A scammer in a den of thieves. Maybe?

The one constant in the show is that Yasmin Abdel Aziz's character and Mostafa Khater's character fall in love, or fall out of love, or find some other reason to yell at each other. I think the lady in the hospital from earlier episodes has head trauma and is misremembering her past life, but it seems she at least remembers her husband, who she fought with a lot.

(This is a family-friendly comedy/comic drama show, being broadcast in Egypt, every day during Ramadan. It's not serious fighting, just loud arguing and wild gesturing and eyerolling)

Thing is, many episodes don't even show the lady in the hospital. And she can't seem to keep the faces of her parents or in-laws or older acquaintances straight. She can't even keep the color of her hair straight. And what was with the ghost episode?

Again, what continuity? Screw continuity!

They are showing of a lot of pretty houses and places in urban Egypt, though. It's Cairo, I think?

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Episode 13: Wife Vs. Mother-in-Law, The eternal struggle continues
OR
Stop putting laxative in the cornbread
OR
How to win arguments by having a baby

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Episode 14: Are divorce parties a thing? They are totally a thing now. Wait, you're not allowed to be happy without me. WTF, man?

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Episode 15: That feel when your wife is far better at your job than you are.

There is some societal thing in Egypt, or maybe its an actual job, but there always seems to be this guy who sits outside of apartment buildings, in the courtyard, usually. Usually someone of a lower social class than the apartment dwellers, usually? So he is kind of a doorman?

In previous films Yasmin has been in, this type of person would occasionally make an appearance. He's usually good to chat with. Maybe a down to earth kind of dude. Anyhow, this episode actually focuses on the life of a doorman who marries a woman who was actually cleaning his family's home and being a busybody about it. And it seems these doormen are sort of building superintendents, too, and personal shoppers, they make sure your kids get on the right bus, and yada yada yada. I guess like a concierge? Or a portero? And they get paid tips.

Anyway, it was nice to finally get a bit more context on who these people that sit outside apartment buildings are. Especially since I don't understand the language.

I do get that la means no, now. And habibi means dear or friend or dear friend.

You can tell I have never lived in big cities.

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Episode 16: When a defense lawyer is married to a prosecutor, stupid shit like this is bound to happen.

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Episode 17: The Artist and the Setup?

This is one of those episodes where I wish I knew Coptic-Arabic. I didn't understand much of this episode.

I will say this, though. They let Yasmin be BIG. Like, no camera tricks to make her look smaller, no slouching, no hiding her arms or legs. And she's huge, like amazonian huge. yay

Well, she dwarfs her costar, Mostafa, anyhow.

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Episode 18: A perpetually annoyed woman and her husband get kidnapped by mistake. Their parents don't bother calling the cops.

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Episode 19: The very troublesome Moped-Taxi driver who got fed up and had to shank a fool.

Also, after many episodes without her, the lady in the hospital makes another appearance. And yep, all these episodes are just delusions she is having. The doctors aren't really doing anything helpful, though.

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Episode 20: Ana tries to use Ahmed the officeboy to make her ex-boyfriend jealous. Only it doesn't work, because Ahmed is a dork.

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Episode 21: Ahmed continues being an awkward dork; Ana's plan fails miserably.

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Episode 22: A mixup at a masquerade leads to something sweet between a gift shop keeper and a doctor.

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Episode 23: Tariq the Mama's boy can't find love until he finds a woman who refuses to be chased away by his mother. But of course, Tariq's life becomes hell. Tariq is a loser.

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Episode 24: A woman discovers the woman plaguing her nightmares lives next door.

Oh my, it seems that one of the delusions/personalities of the lady in the hospital is going mental herself. [Inception horns]

She's blonde in this one. Soooo weird.

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Episode 25: A woman tries to overcome her nightmares and anxiety about her woman next door, but the neighbor slowly falls back into her highschool bullying habit.

It sounds more horrifying than it actually gets portrayed as. Also, Yasmin is horrible at portraying anxiety and nervous tics. Plus she is still blond. So weird. So.

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Episode 26: Domestic violence and the trouble with harems.

Ugh two deeply unfunny episodes in a row wtf.

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Episode 27: Beauty salon gossip and two depressed people get hooked up. Luckily one comes from a family with beauty salon money.

Very weird, Yasmin and Mostafa are hardly in this one. They are the depressed people that get pushed into a relationship with eachother.

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Episode 28: The depressed dude's parents get more involved in the depressed couple's lives. And more beauty salon gossip? And the hashish plan fails? And depressed gal has a secret stash of money after all?

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Episode 29: Trouble at the psych hospital as Yasmin's character finally starts getting better. There is something nefarious about the new doctor, though.

This episode was all -- main continuity?? -- with only flashbacks to previous episodes as the primary doctors taking care of Yasmin's character, who I was calling the lady in the hospital before, discuss her delusions as they walk around the grounds of the psychiatric hospital. Specifically about the married couple in episode 2 and the ghost housemate in episode 4. Only... the bride in episode 2 looks a lot like another patient wandering the psych hospital grounds... which is odd. And Mostafa's main continuity character shows up finally, and it turns out that he was one of the hospital's doctors the whole time? And he's surprised to discover Yasmin's character was at the hospital the whole time?

The whole reason she ended up in the hospital in the first place was because she was run off the road and her car rolled over. Maybe he sent someone to kill her? The first episode did show her copying data that maybe she wasn't supposed to have onto a USB stick. But I wasn't sure if the first episode was all that real, given the rest of the episodes.

Well, Ramadan is almost over I think, so the show is wrapping up. Next episode will likely be all main continuity as well.

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Episode 30: The lady at the hospital's identity is revealed when her doctors discover each of her delusions are actually the past lives of her patients in the psych ward. But is it too late for Dr. Mariam?


HOW DID NO ONE IN THE HOSPITAL RECOGNIZE DR. MARIAM WTF IS THIS PLOT?