Hello, fellow Tyrant lovers. The new season is coming July 6, the third season to be exact. I would like to recap what happened in Season 2, just briefly to get your appetites revving again!!!
So, I’ll
start at the end because I have seen some reviews and I’m not sure they are totally
correct. Just like John Snow from Game
of Thrones, even though we see Jamal, the worst Tyrant ever, “dying”, is he
really dead? I read a recap review that said
that he was, but no one said that at the end of the scene. Some characters just
wished and believed that the bullet that Nusrat (the wife of Jamal’s son Ahmed)
killed him, but Barry seemed to act as though he could save him and then it was
the end. (Update: As I was writing this article, I found the Season 3 trailer and
I am right, Jamal is not completely dead.)
Ok, now, in
the beginning of Season 2, Barry Al Fayeed, an Americanized member of the Al
Fayeed royal family, was in jail because his coup attempt against his brother failed and he was to
be killed for treason. We see a man
being hung and assume it is Barry because we can’t see his face and we were
told that it was Barry. The truth was that Jamal couldn’t face killing his
brother, so he had another prisoner executed, then had Barry taken to the
desert to die on his own. However, Barry
was found by some villagers and brought back to health.
Barry then
became a freedom fighter against an overly zealous insurgent militant group
that was against the Al Fayeed government and was rounding up members from dissatisfied
small town folk, making it seem glamorous as they pillaged and killed many
people, rivaling the evil of only Jamal himself.
Part of the reason they were able to get many
members was because they blamed Jamal for a chemical attack that was actually
done secretly by his uncle Tariq, who led the military. When Jamal found out what his uncle had done,
he killed him with his own hands. This was justified, especially since Tariq
did the same thing to Jamal’s and Barry’s father many decades ago when he ran
the country. The father’s reputation never rebounded and the father never told
the truth because of his loyalty to his family.
So, Barry
becomes the freedom fighters’ leader, Khalil, but it was not known at first by
his followers that he was a member of the Al Fayeed family and the brother of Jamal, and the original heir to
the throne, as per his father’s original wishes. Barry and his son worked with the
rebels. Barry found out by accident that
his son was helping the rebels and his son Sammy found out by accident that
Barry was Khalil.
Barry devises
a plan to beat back the new insurgent group and enlists the aid of an unlikely
ally: the illegitimate son of Jamal, who
is now the new head of the military.
Without getting too involved in this part of the story, Jamal becomes
paranoid over this allegiance (as well as many other things) and has this son
thrown into jail as well.
At the end,
all ends well when the son is allowed to do his duty and Barry’s plan with the
help of the military goes through and the insurgents are defeated. Jamal is forced by his wife, Leila, and
legitimate son, Ahmed, to resign for all the sins he has committed, which also
included killing his own mother accidentally because he was trying to kill
someone else due to one of his paranoid delusions.
Jamal is
allowed to make a speech. You even believe for one moment that he will not
resign, but then… Nusrat shoots him! She needed to get justice for him violating her on her wedding
night and for killing her father. On the other hand, this at first innocent and
nice girl has been forced into a life altering position. The Al Fayeed’s ruined
her life and now she took her chance to get some sort of revenge. They show Jamal dying, but no one said he was
actually dead.
Although, he
did look pretty wounded, you never know. The fact is this character was very
compelling, charismatic, and full of surprises.
He was the J.R. Ewing character of Tyrant: You loved to hate him (This
is a reference from the show Dallas for those of you that don’t know.)
It also raises the questions: Is Barry now
the leader of the country and for how long?
Is he going to become the Tyrant that has been hinted at since the
beginning or will he go back to America?
Is he going to have an affair with the village woman with whom he shared
a special bond during the freedom fight and who he visited secretly without his
wife, Molly, knowing? Will Sammy’s sexuality complicate matters and cause
danger for him in this very conservative world? Where is this story going
now? Only one way to find out.
If you are
intrigued by this story and its continuation then……..WATCH IT! JULY 6!
