High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam

Matt Roush says...

An eight-episode docudrama depicts the manhunt for former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the early 2000s through the perspective of CIA analyst John Nixon — no relation to the disgraced former president. He’s played by For All Mankind‘s Joel Kinnaman as a somewhat nerdy crusader for truth, who helpfully reminds us that as awful as he was, Hussein (Waleed Zuaiter) had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks. His bosses mostly ignore his counsel, telling him, “The White House (of George W. Bush) only wants one thing and wants it now.” That would be evidence of weapons of mass destruction (which were never found) and the location of the despised despot, whom Nixon would eventually meet and interrogate face to face. But first, he has to argue his way into the field, which takes more than an episode in a pedestrian dramatization. The series, opening with two episodes, airs Sundays and Mondays through October 4.

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