As soon as the Saudi comedy series "Director 7" completed its twentieth episode, the MBC network announced the end of the series shown on its screen in the current month of Ramadan, because it was not possible to complete its filming in the case of quarantine due to the spread of Corona virus, while the network described the artwork as a comic series Viewers laugh and they will remember it.

The events of the series, which sparked widespread controversy due to its discussion of normalization in a comic framework, revolve between the family of the father "Nasser Al-Qasabi," a middle-level government employee, and discusses the transformations that Saudi society has witnessed in recent years and its impact on family and social relations.

Normalization versus investment The
series discussed the issue of normalization with Israel as a normal matter, such as talking about football and movies, and that the interests of the Saudi citizen should be limited to his journey in searching for a position for his car, and not taking a position on the conflict in the Middle East as stated in a dialogue between a girl and a delivery worker Requests.

While the sixth episode of the series witnessed a dialogue between Al-Qasabi and Al-Shamrani in which the latter said that the enemy is "the one who cannot stand you with him and curses more day and night than the Israelis," in reference to the Palestinians.

And he continued, "All our wars for the sake of the Palestinians, we entered wars for the sake of the Palestinians, and when they have the authority to pay their costs and their salaries, and we deserve the money, they do not believe until they find an opportunity and attack Saudi Arabia."

While Nasser al-Qasabi responded, he said, "The fingers of your hand are not the same. Just as there are Palestinians who were displaced in 1948, and were subjected to massacres in return, there are those who sold their lands to the Jews.

Many of the critics with a vocal voice allied with the series, describing the audience’s shock at the dialogue as a “normalization phobia,” and phobia in its simple definition is an excessive and unjustified fear of things that others routinely deal with.

"It is natural that we discuss the issue of normalization in the drama as it is one of the pressing and controversial issues," Saudi art critic Mubarak Al-Khaldi wrote.

"The Saudi series leaps from the social template to delve into the hottest political topics in an episode dealing with the Middle East conflict with Israel and the normalization phobia," writer and novelist Iman Al-Khattaf wrote to Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper.

Where is the Saudi budget?
The Saudis disagreed about the scene, and some considered it a history that Saudi drama writes, and that Al-Shamrani's opinion represents them, and they were described as bold and powerful.

But that did not continue, the position of the series was greatly weakened by the enemy of its discussion of homosexuality in the next episode, as the series supported the issue of homosexuals as "a group present in society and they should be left in their condition", which came on the lips of the character who plays the role of actress Aseel Omran.

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people who could talk about this group of society and reveal their world and their hidden and delusions
really # Director_7 was able to prove that he is the strongest in his theses. pic.twitter.com/48VM6HwW09

- # _ _ اد ه اد 🇸🇦 (@ meead55) May 4, 2020

And no report published on the British newspaper, The Guardian, complained that the country's leaders endorsed these targeted messages that were shown by Saudi satellite channel.

But the series dealt with another issue between the Saudis on social networking sites, as they linked the complaint of the work heroes about Saudi aid to Palestine, evading the authority from discussing the budget to constrain its citizens, and compared their situation to the Emirates that repay their citizens ’troubled loans.

# Exit_7 Talat and

Samaj, candidly .. The worst work of the artist Nasser Al-Qasabi

- ⓈⒶⓁⒺⒽ (@ Lare05258151) May 13, 2020

Newspaper report says US - Pulse fluorine that war losses Saudi Arabia # Yemen reached 720 billion dollars ,

ie the cost of the war on Yemen , Saudi Arabia each year is estimated at $ 144 billion , the

Saudi budget deficit for this year amounted to $ 112 billion would be borne by the Saudi citizen # Hd_alhzam

- Nesma Bin Mahfouz (@NesmahBen) May 4, 2020

The MBC network commented,
and the Saudi series was not the only one that dealt with Arab relations with Israel, in what many considered a tendency to pass normalization through Ramadan drama. The Kuwaiti series "Umm Haroun" has received accusations of normalization since its first episode.

Umm Harun tells the story of a Jewish doctor in the forties of the last century, the difficulties faced by her family, and the Jewish community in the Gulf, and the series also occurred in historical errors monitored by the public.

The series, which is also shown by MBC1, received an Israeli welcome, and it accused the Saudi network of trying to "normalize" the talk about Israel and taking advantage of the Ramadan season for that.

The network's spokesperson, Mazen Hayek, responded that the series are fictional, not documentary, and that opponents carve out the scenes from their context and refuse to look at the "human" dimension of the Jewish heroine.

Here is the last beautiful comic scene presented by # Rashid Al Shamrani, then he turned after him to clowning in many of his roles and became "as smooth" as the case of # Nasser Al Qasabi and most of any crew of comic work produced and presented by mbc and then gave his worst role in # Exit_7 after he presented a role that offended the Palestinian cause and the historical role of the Kingdom In supporting the Palestinians. pic.twitter.com/yinXhY22hN

- Muhammad Yahya (@ mo7ammadalyahya) May 9, 2020