Marriage: the original pyramid scheme, now with 42 episodes of receipts.
Season 1 • Episode 42
LatestThe series presents archetypes that reflect the issues encountered by people who are about to marry, as all the romance fades once the groom is forced to pay all he has in order to secure a house, turning his life after marriage into a struggle to pay off his debts.
Acting
Rafiq Subaie's Dabbah carries decades of paternal exhaustion in every sigh.
Writing
Archetypes so specific they feel like your actual relatives.
Creator
Mamdouh Hamada
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This series captures pre-2011 Syrian television's obsession with middle-class precarity — the groom's debt spiral reflected real Damascus housing crises of the era.
Rafiq Subaie improvised several of Dabbah's most memorable rants about inflation; the original scripts were apparently 'too polite' for his taste.
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