Raff has a “ Pleasantville”-like approach with his color palette, only bestowing his images with full color once Eli is deep in his mission at episode three, and for the most part it feels tightly plotted. Eli jumps at the chance, even though it means lying to his wife Nadia ( Hadar Ratzon Rotem) about where he is, and what he’s doing. A twice-rejected applicant to Mossad, Eli is brought on by his future handler Dan Peleg ( Noah Emmerich), and assigned to make connections with major people in Syria, to find out what they’re planning to unleash on Israel. Across six episodes, the series details through some bizarre twists how Eli went from a diligent department store employee in Israel to a spy embedded in Syria, pretending to be a confident business man named Kamel Amin-Thabaath.