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MO – Netflix (2022-25)
“Mo” is a Netflix comedy-drama series following Mo Najjar, a Palestinian refugee navigating life in Houston while awaiting U.S. citizenship. Balancing multiple jobs, his undocumented status, and family obligations, Mo hustles to support his resilient mother and sharp-witted brother. Meanwhile, he struggles with identity, love, and survival in a system that offers little security. Blending humor with heartfelt storytelling, Mo offers a poignant, semi-autobiographical look at the immigrant experience in America.
Like so many shows in the current saturated media environment, MO was a show I saw go by on the Netflix home page for a while now, never really considering giving it a look (can’t judge a book by its cover I suppose). But then I caught Mo Amer be interviewed by Jon Stewart last Monday on the Daily Show. Stewart was so clearly enamored by this show and the story it tells that I decided to give it a shot.
So glad I did.
One minute you’re laughing hysterically, the next, you’re feelin’ a tear welling up, it’s exactly what I’d expect a ‘comedy-drama’ to be. The actors are relative unknowns and fantastic. You’ll love his girlfriend Maria and his on the spectrum brother Sameer. His best friend is played by Houston area rapper Tobe Nwigwe, whose songs, are peppered throughout the soundtrack. His other friend Hameed is off-the-hook, the scene in the second season where you get the hidden gun tour of his house, is beyond side-splitting… and then his Mother, Yusra, she’s just the best. Her character’s synthesis of old and new world sensibility was so well acted, the character development in MO is nothing short of amazing.
So give it a spin. There’s two 8-episode seasons up on Netflix. Episodes run around a half an hour.
