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Will I was surprised I didn't expect that I can watch a foreign tv show and make me feel amazed with how excellent everything was first from acting - cinematography - score . maybe their is poor CGI used in the third episode but It is not a big issue for me. Personally my favorite episode is the last episode. I am waiting season 2 .

Good solid start of a new promising new horror/mystery show.

The story reminds me of classic adventure stories like Indiana Jones and gives constant suspension and couriosity. You want to know what happens next and what the mystery is about. It does not invent something completly new, but delievers an exciting premise.

The main protagonist is the heart of the show and carries the main attention of the spectator. In comparison the other side characters are boring and lack of an impact and can't compete with the actor of Refaat Ismail.

Where The Haunting of Bly Manor fails and tries to copies his own formula, this show creates a satisfying setting.

I started watching the anticipated series "paranormal" today and actually it is not only another horror/drama series produced by netflix, but it is a very well done adaptation for the great egyptian author "ahmed khaled tawfik" paranormal stories, the acting was nice, the music was better than expected, the cinematography was interesting to watch, overall it was an enjoyable ride and i am surely waiting for season 2

Amr Salama the director did a great job by turning the novels into this great show this the best Arabic show i have ever seen

It's a great start .. the music is awesome .. the cast and everything are amazing .. i am going to end all the episodes now

When i decided to watch this series i did not know what i'm gonna see,but from the first episode i found myself into it and that's for multiple reasons: -the decors and the setting of thoses periods of times in the arabian countries they really did a great job there. -also,the egyptian and libyan arabic they have done it perfectly it doesn't feel like they translated it from english to arabic. -Samma Ibrahim ''Raeefa Ismail'' all i can say about him is that he's done a remarkble effort in playing his character..as well as the othere characters except some of the kids they didn't convince me with there acting.. even though the series still has cons like -a lot of questions are not answered -the CGI they used was so bad..i mean really bad,and they tried to hide it with the darkness in the scene and the camera movment but they didn't succeed in that one,plus,a lot of events rely on CGI. also,the relationship between Raeefa and megie was so cold and cringy and other things that i don't wanna say for the sake of not spoiling any thing. still this does not diminish the value of ''Paranormal''. if you love horror, mysteries and suspense like me..you'll definitely love this series.

While not exactly a horror series, Paranormal is a very entertaining show with supernatural and dark elements. The structure is linear and the plot is simple but really effective. Overall a very good job!

Very good and waiting second shafter. we need a second very soon

I give it 6/10, its not a horror serie , not one sense, but the story line was good, could be better. Should people stop overrating this show, because it worth 5 or 6 not 9 or 10.

I didn't expect that.This show will be one of my favourite. I highly recommend it to everyone doesn't matter what age you are. Everyone will find something interesting in it. GOOD JOB KEEP IT UP

No horror, just suspense. Give a fair rating and it will be less then 7. Basic script, no surprises.

Being a horror/dark fantasy buff I really wanted to like this, and with review ratings similar to other shows like the Haunting of Hill House, I really thought I would. But I didn't. Acting was average at best, special effects were poor, and the most important aspect, the storyline, was convoluted, lacklustre and just kind-of boring. I didn't make it past two and a half episodes.

On the plus side the set design was beautiful along with the cinematography, and the score was decent too - though it sounds like it was inspired by the violin in the much better horror venture 'Drag Me To Hell.'

I love it so much...i highly recommended it to all horror story lovers

This is a solid contribution to the burgeoning Netflix Horror-series drama, though it dwells more on exploring the actions of supernatural entities than the shock factor. I really appreciated the mixture of Egyptian monsters that haunt Euro-American popular culture, such as the mummy, with Western monsters seen through an Egyptian lens, like the succubus and Lucifer. The main character is extremely unlikeable and unsympathetic, a self-absorbed narcissistic professor, but somehow he solves all the problems while others who get caught up in the adventure get killed. Sometimes the plot and effects can seem low-grade, especially during the Libyan desert episode, but the 1960s Egyptian scenery is atmospheric and well done, and all the storylines came together nicely in a (for the most part) satisfying and sophisticated way at the end.

I'm a fan of the novels series, I read the 81 stories since I was 17.. When I heard about this project I went back and read the whole collection again. Now this show stands alone as a very special first Egyptian production from Netflix, I loved the general atmosphere, the looks of the characters, the suspense inside every moment, the coloring.. Loved it all The only thing that disappointed me that they had to deform my early imagination about the storyline itself, I had that bad expression all over my face 😅 every time thay tend to change the way I remember some details.. Daram stuff I know but I didn't like it. I hoped they could find another way to give us the whole thing without messing with tge details. Regarding this I'm proud of the series and I hope they go on making a lot more seasons very soon.

This series is a big step for the Egyptian drama and a great door to enter the world of Egyptian drama and experience some day to day Egyptian habits form the ordinary boring stuff to the mystics and the legends of this culture

Actually iam glad that we could do a series based on a great novel such as this one, But Iam so confused of these people who rate this series 10, is it 10 because it just an egyptian good series?!, or it is 10 because it deserves 10, I didn't rate breaking bad, GOT, Chernobyl, prison break, the walking dead, and shameless 10 to give this series 10, WTH Is going on here?!

If it wasn't Egyptian, I would've rated it 6. The extra star for being the first Egyptian Netflix series. Anyway, I hope Egyptians don't over-rate it with full 10 stars rating without being objective.

Most episodes are entertaining, the series is excellent compared to what we used to see from Egyptian productions. Protagonist role was exceptional (although it's not what you expect from reading the novels), however other characters are poorly developed and the graphics are very poor in some scenes. No doubt that it passes as a good above-average thriller, but let's be honest, what makes this series to stand out are the quotes "specially sarcastic funny quotes in dark moments" excerpted from Dr. Tawfik.

Don't compare it to the novels, the novels were much more engaging. This doesn't belittle the hard work done for this work, but it reflects how great and awesome Dr. A.K Tawfik was. May his soul R.I.P.

Thanks for everything and thanks for ahmed amin he's A Great Actor.

Started exceptionally, becomes absurd and boring midways. The cinematography is great, yet unrealistic at times, even pitch black scenarios, are illuminated so brightly that you wonder why they carry the lanterns. But the major probelm is Dr Reefat's character and how the plot becomes absurd at times

" I will never stop loving you Maggie , until the stars fall from the sky , until the world ends , until planets collide and suns wither , until the moon is extinguished and all the seas and rivers dry up , until i become senile and my memory is eroded , until my tongue is no longer capable of uttering your name , until my heart beats for the last time , only then , i might stop ... i might stop loving you "