Al Magroud

At a glance

Al Magroud, is a 2009 Kuwaiti series, directed by Moneer Al-Zubi, and starring Dawood Hussein, Taif, Muhammad Al-Mannaya. running for 1 season.

Overview

Al Magroud is a Gulf comedy series that follows Bo Laish, a fifty-year-old man suffocating under a mountain of debt who believes the solution lies in entrepreneurship. What follows is a darkly comic spiral of failed ventures, each one more disastrous than the last, as Bo Laish lurches from one losing proposition to the next with unshakeable optimism and consistently terrible results. The series finds sharp humor in the gap between ambition and reality, drawing on recognizable Gulf social types to tell a universal story about stubborn pride and the refusal to admit defeat.

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