I watched this show just as it was leaving Netflix. I don't know why they are dropping it, but I hope it's just a legal issue, because on the merits it's an outstanding series, much better than many over-hyped thrillers currently streaming.
The premise of Season 1 is that an eclectic group of applicants go through an insanely difficult Mossad training course. They range from young to old, gorgeous to frumpy, rich to poor. They learn to surveil, steal, seduce, kill, and achieve their objectives by almost any means. One applicant is kicked out of the course in each episode. The reasons for the elimination often involve an interesting twist, and what seems like a "success" is occasionally deemed a failure for surprising but ultimately logical reasons
In addition to the weekly challenges, there is an overarching mystery involving one of the applicants, who is trying to find out how and why her late husband, himself a Mossad agent, was killed. There are suspicions about the leader of the training exercise (brilliant but also reckless and a bit dodgy), his boss (a beautiful psychiatrist), and other Mossad agents.
Season 2 is a bit different. Instead of the weekly eliminations, we join the course with just a few applicants left. They are on a mission in Ukraine (scripted and filmed before the 2022 invasion!), and their instructor, Yona, is as enigmatic as ever. Very little is as it seems, and there are so many surprises and double-crosses that you made need to take notes, but it all does make sense and the ending ties up a lot of loose ends.
In both seasons, the episodes are tightly written and no longer than they need to be. (~45 minutes each) In season 1, they work well independently, less so in Season 2, but both seasons are also highly binge-able. Definitely worth watching before it leaves Netflix or wherever else it is carried.
