The Syrian series Qaws Quzah (Rainbow) may be described as the series that consolidates the social and family traditions with all the topics, dreams and problems involved in addition to aiming at deeply rooting the family interrelations. This had made the series suitable to have been aired during last Ramadan.
The series is scripted by Khaled Khalifa and directed by Haitham Haqqi and considered the artistic grandson of the series Muthakkarat A’eliyyah (Family Memoirs) and al Fusool al Arbaa (The Four Seasons) although it is superior in many aspects to the Four Season which was acclaimed two years ago.
The family of the new series is smaller and belongs to the middle class, the largest in Syria, so it addresses the public. The family characters are close to the status of a model Syrian family which is comprised of a father employee (Salim Sabri), mother household (Thanaa Dibsi) and two sons paving their way and striving in life with difficulty. The first son who works a university professor (Hatem Ali) stays at his family house due to poverty and the second is a surgeon (Wael Ramadan) lives relatively independent in a rented apartment but keeps in continuos contact with his family to share them their problems.
The eldest son (Abdel Hadi Sabbagh) who works as a mechanic is the only one who has a good standard of living and represents the traditional son and magnanimous too. This is in addition to a university student daughter (Jihan Abdel Azim), a mollycoddle girl who represents the new generation and another divorced daughter (Hana Nassour).
According to the daily al Hayat, had the series substituted the character of one of the two sons, the university professor and the surgeon, by another unemployed one, it would have succeeded in finding more inclusive diversity. But, the paper says, it features a model family resembling commercial ads or the Indian polwood films. The director turned the financial and intellectual aristocracy in Four Seasons into a spiritual aristocracy in Qaws Quzah making a step forward.
The series does not provoke the audience by portraying the richness and class of characters and attempts to avoid exorbitance in its topics. It is not free from political or administrative criticism, which it makes as a strategic plan. At the same time Abu Said family can be described as a superstitious family angels that have turned the series into a social fantasy -- Albawaba.com
