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Ramy - Season 1
It is a series of powerful comedy events that we live through this young man named Rami, the son of Egyptian immigrants. Rami is a spiritually conflicted journey in his New Jersey neighborhood, where he is drawn between two different communities. Rami lives between his Muslim community, who believes life is a constant test, and his thousands of friends who believe life is full of endless possibilities.
May 13, 1964 in Mount Holly, New Jersey, USA
1 May 1978, New York City, New York, USA
30 March 1974, Iran
14 January 1975, Cairo, Egypt
29 November 1977, San Francisco, California, USA
1964, USA
6 November 1958, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
30 October 2004, USA
April 18, 2019
Ramy thus takes the oldest of premises... and infuses it with situations that give the series life and depth.
March 12, 2019
"Ramy" resonates because it treats its characters' lives with the utmost compassion.
April 17, 2019
Ramy is as funny as it is important as Ramy Youssef juggles with culture, religion and being Egyptian-American in New Jersey.
April 18, 2019
In terms of the stories it chooses to tell,... Ramy feels like nothing else on TV.
April 19, 2019
Ramy is proof why better representation makes for better TV. It can tell deeper stories because no character has to stand in for an entire culture.
April 17, 2019
Ramy is a comedy, and it's a good one, but its clear priority is to have the jokes emerge from the characters being so carefully drawn, and from the worldview so frankly explored.
April 19, 2019
Ramy is at its best when the Muslim experience and the millennial experience intersect.
April 18, 2019
[Ramy] is another strong yet artfully subtle example of what this emerging genre can accomplish.
April 17, 2019
Sometimes surreal, sometimes achingly realistic, Ramy will break your heart and build it up again.
April 18, 2019
It's a portrait of an American Muslim family never before seen in a sitcom, because these kinds of characters are never allowed to be this complicated.
