TheWrap

‘Red Alert’ and ‘One Day in October’ Reviews: Paramount+ and HBO Max Offer 2 Gripping Accounts of Oct. 7 Attacks

Stills from "Red Alert" and "One Day in October." (Paramount+/HBO Max, Fox Entertainment) The killing of 378 people at the Oct. 7, 2023, open-air Nova Music Festival, plus hundreds in the ...
Vulture

One Abominable Day, Two Incomplete TV Series

Yael Abecassis as Sabine Taasa in One Day in October. Photo: HBO Max In the fourth episode of One Day in October, a French journalist interviews Sabine Taasa, a victim of the October 7 Hamas attack on ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘Red Alert’ Review: Paramount+ Israeli Drama Offers a Taut, Effectively Manipulative Depiction of the October 7 Terror Attacks

Lior Chefetz created and directed the series, which focuses on a handful of stories of tragedy and heroism in the midst of Hamas' attack on Israel. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic When it ...
Los Angeles Times

Tensions build inside David Ellison’s Paramount over Israel stance

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Paramount+ debuts ‘Red Alert,’ a four-part drama about the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, on the assault’s second ...
Decider

RED ALERT : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

On the second anniversary of Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attacks on southern Israel, two Israeli-produced series based on true stories of survivors are being released in the U.S. Red Alert takes the more ...
Jewish Journal

From ‘Pulp Fiction’ to ‘Red Alert’: Lawrence Bender Confronts the Realities of October 7

Producer Lawrence Bender’s career spans a wide range of acclaimed films, from the pop-culture phenomenon “Pulp Fiction” to the Oscar-winning “Good Will Hunting.” The 67-year-old has also produced some ...
Forbes

‘Red Alert,’ Series About Oct. 7 Attack On Israel, New On Streaming This Week

Red Alert, a four-part scripted series based on Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, is new on streaming this week. The official summary for the series notes that it “reveals the real stories of ...
Variety

Oct. 7 Series ‘Red Alert’ Is a Harrowing Recreation of the Hamas Terror Attacks, but Can’t Escape Its Politically Fraught Context: TV Review

That same boycott indicates the other kind of context that viewers will bring to “Red Alert,” which is timed to the second anniversary of the nightmarish events it depicts. The intervening two years ...
The New York Times

Two Oct. 7 Series Show the Power, and Limits, of Memory

After two years of war and acrimony, “Red Alert” and “One Day in October” focus on the horrors of a single day. By James Poniewozik James Poniewozik is the chief television critic of The New York ...
TheWrap

TV’s First Oct. 7 Dramas Hit Streaming Amid Gaza War Backlash and Cease-Fire Talks

Two years after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, the war in Gaza endures, but two scripted retellings of the war’s inciting incident premiered on major Hollywood streamers in time to honor its second ...
Deadline.com

‘Red Alert’ EP Lawrence Bender On Poignancy Of Oct. 7 Miniseries, David Ellison & Cindy Holland’s Support, Quentin Tarantino, & “A New Chapter In My Life”

Shay-Lee Keren Sharvit as Tamari, Rotem Sela as Batsheva Yahalomi and Libi Atia as Yael in 'Red Alert' Green Productions, Bender Brown Productions, Keshet 12, the IEF, & Paramount+ “To me, honestly, ...