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In a dream, Mo’s grandfather tends it on a key. “Wait for this key,” said her grandfather. The key is a symbol of the houses lost in the 1948 Nakba where a large number of Palestinians lost their house or fled the violence and were refused the right to return.
In Mo Season two, the titular character has a recurring dream of the key. And that, in essence, sums up the season: the right to return home.
The first time that Mo dreams of the key is when he is stuck in a detention center after being surprised in the process of illegally crossing the American-Mexican border. At the end of the first season, he accidentally found himself in Mexico after having fake in a truck carrying their stolen olive trees. The last season continues the story with Mo Survivor in Mexico and trying to return to Houston in time for their audience for the asylum process.
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In Mexico, Mo does what Mo does best: Hustle. He puts on a mask, calls himself the Oso Palestino (the Palestinian bear) and tries the fight of Lucha Libre. He also sells his “falafel tacos” on a cart to earn money to go home.
New problems await him once he returns to Houston. His ex-girlfriend Maria is now going out with an Israeli Jewish chief, a guy named Guy who makes an “Israeli houmous”, an idea Mo finds ridiculous. “There are no Israeli houmous. They loot my heritage,” said Mo. “They steal our culture and then deny it with semantics.” Then, he lost his head when he finds his falafel tacos “world -renowned” on the menu of the Guy fancy restaurant (Mo had shared his idea with him earlier before discovering the identity of Guy).
Meanwhile, Mo’s family continues to pursue the American passport. Their objective, once they are no longer refugees and become citizens, is to visit the house: Palestine.
The show is as heartbreaking as it is hilarious. Deeply rooted in Palestinian identity, MO balances the representation of the people, their symbols and the constant struggles with which they have been confronted for decades in the hands of the occupation. Even in the United States, Mo is unable to call the place at home even after spending his whole life there. “I did not choose to be stateless,” exclaims Mo in a dream.
In an absurdly funny scene, Mo is said that he will be expelled. However, he cannot leave the country because he has no house. But he is expelled. But he cannot leave. Yes, it is also confusing that it may seem.
After being expelled but not really expelled, Mo must wear an ankle monitor and respond to the officer listening silently each of his movements to the other end of the tracker. The situation causes delicate moments, especially when the officer hears Maria singing the praises of his Israeli boyfriend before Mo.
It is Mo’s strength. He can make you laugh while regularly increasing the discomfort until you are in a knot. In fact, he finds his humor in this discomfort. And this is the signature of creator Mohammed Amer – a very Palestinian signature. This comes from this unshakable belief that the Palestinians have today, they will return to a free homeland. They protect the keys to their ancestors believing that their houses await their return. The houses can be occupied but the locks have not changed.
A family visit home
Even in the show, the representation of Mo of Palestine is alive. The walls, the streets, the fields, the trees and even the air call for its people. It makes decades but the earth has not forgotten its people, nor the people of their land. This love and desire of Palestine are obvious to Mo. and it is from this veracity that Mo Amer created the spectacle.
In a terrifying moment in Palestine, a silent Jewish child follows Mo and his family in their house. Frightened in their minds, Mo tries to return the child so that the child’s father took a pistol by the child’s father, an illegal colonist.
The whole sequence is quite explicit. It shows the fear not only of the Palestinian Aboriginal people of the earth, but also of the threat of self-skaction in which the colonists live once they decide to occupy. Throughout this trip, Mo subtly underlines hypocrisy, theft and exploitation which are not only on a systemic scale, but also in daily micro-instances.
Despite the global conflicts dictating Mo and the life of his family – the constant supervision of the state with each of their monitored movements, the threatening of losing their small business, the struggle of several years to obtain asylum and the tumultuous tumultuous life From Mo – The drama here is in detail. It is in the conversations he has with his friends, the constant bustle to reach both ends and to belong.
They will stay here
One of the main elements of the importance of the show is that it takes place before October 7, 2023. Mo Clearly his calendar, ending the season on October 6, 2023. This point is important because he challenges and denies the propagated story that the so-called “war” began on October 7. Mo Reiterates what is a known fact that the genocide and the oppression of Palestine and the Palestinians date back decades. And if you think about it, it is quite tragic that a people who have been subject to such inhuman and treated atrocities as less than humans in their own country by the occupying entity for almost a century must continue to provide evidence of their suffering and death.
The show is clear on the situation. And that does not dodge the ideas he explores or complicates them with a mask of neutrality. The program indicates in uncertain terms that there is no time for neutrality during periods of oppression. And he says it without being preached with his sole objective of being to represent the people and their sufferings.
But Mo is a show that is not only relevant because of what has happened since October 7. It would be relevant at any time. His empathy lies in Palestine, but it is a story of suffering from all those who aspire to the house.
During their visit to Palestine, Mo finally finds the key he dreamed of. It is the key to the house of his grandparents in Haifa from where they were forced to go out by the Israeli colonists. Mo wants the key. But his uncle refuses to give him to take America. “These are here, and they will stay here.”
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