In real life, Everyone's got a stake in this game, and everyone's both a good guy and bad. The show fell for the easy out of the US being the "big baddie" as most shows tend to do, but that is just lazy if you ask me. The land unofficially known as Kurdistan is prime real estate for just about every country surrounding it for a zillion reasons and not a single one of those neighbors look very favorably on it attaining autonomy. It is the most uphill battle of battles and will be for quite some time, if not forever. The parallel to the creation of Israel is most apt but Turkey is a most formidable foe in the Kurdish struggle. But this is aTV show and altogether handled a hot potato subject pretty darn well. The acting, production value and writing were well done and it was an exciting adventure to go along on and hope for that all elusive breakthrough. It seemed to leave an opening for a second season which I hope is so and would definitely watch.