Season 1 • Episode 30
LatestFarida, a photographer, goes to a hotel to meet her friend and husband, who works at the hotel's Vertigo bar. She finds herself the only witness to the murder of two businessmen and their guards, as well as the lives of her close friends.
Acting
Hend Sabry carries every frame with barely-contained panic.
Direction
Othman Abu Laban turns Cairo hotels into claustrophobic traps.
Writing
Thirty episodes and they rarely waste a scene. Impressive.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the darker Egyptian dramas of the 2010s, reflecting post-revolution anxieties about trust in institutions.
Hend Sabry reportedly filmed several episodes while genuinely ill, which accidentally amplified Farida's unraveling physical state.
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