In a dream, MO’s grandfather hands him over a key. “Take care of this key,” says his grandfather. The key is a symbol of the homes lost in Nakba in 1948, when a large number of Palestinians lost their homes or fled from violence and were denied the right to return.

IN Mo Season two has the titular character a recurring dream of the key. And this is essentially summarizing what the season is about: the right to return home.

The first time Mo dreams of the key is when he is stuck in a detention center after he has been caught in crossing the US -Mexico border illegally. At the end of season one he accidentally ended up in Mexico after sneezing inside a truck with their stolen olive trees. The recent season continues the story with MO, which survives in Mexico and is trying to get back to Houston in time to belong to the asylum process.

Searching for home

In Mexico, Mo does what MO does best: Hustle. He donates a mask, calls himself Oso Palestino (the Palestinian bear) and tries Lucha Libre Wrestling. He also sells his ‘Falafel Tacos’ on a wagon to make money to go home.

New problems are waiting for him when he comes back to Houston. His ex-boyfriend Maria is now with an Israeli Jewish chef, a guy named Guy who makes ‘Israeli Hummus’, an idea, Mo finds ridiculous. “There is no Israeli hummus. He pills my heritage,” says Mo. “They steal from our culture and then deny it with semantics.” Then he loses his mind when he finds his “world famous” Falafel Tacos on the menu at Guy’s Fancy Restaurant (Mo had shared his idea with him earlier before finding out Guy’s identity).

Meanwhile, MO’s family continues the pursuit of the US passport. Their goals, when they are no longer refugees and become citizens, is to visit the home: Palestine.

The show is as heartbreaking as it is fun. Deeply rooted in Palestinian identity balances MO representation of the people, its symbols and the constant struggles they have been exposed to for decades in the hands of the occupation. Even in the United States, MO is unable to call the place home, even after spending all his life there. “I chose not to be stateless,” MO exclaims in a dream.

In an absurd fun scene, Mo is told he will be deported. However, he cannot leave the country because he has nothing home. But he’s deported. But he can’t leave. Yes, it’s as confusing as it sounds.

After being deported, but not really deported, MO has to wear an ankle monitor and respond to the officer silently and listen to his every movement at the other end of the tracker. The situation causes awkward moments, especially when the officer overhears Mary, who sings praises for her Israeli girlfriend in front of Mo.

It’s MO’s strength. He can make you laugh as you steadily increase discomfort until you are in a knot. In fact, it finds its humor in that very discomfort. And it is creator Mohammed Amer’s signature – a signature that is very Palestinian. It comes from this unshakable belief that Palestinians have one day they return to a free homeland. They protect the keys of their ancestors in the belief that their homes are waiting for their return. The homes may be occupied, but the locks have not changed.

A family visiting home

Even in the show, MO’s portrayal of Palestine is alive. The walls, streets, fields, trees and even the air encourage its people. It has been decades, but the country has not forgotten its people, nor the people their country. This love and longing for Palestine is evident in Mo., and it is from the truth that Mo Amer has created the show.

In a scary moment in Palestine, a mute Jewish child Mo and his family follows into their house. Scared out of their minds MO only tries to return the child to get a gun drawn on him by the child’s father, an illegal settler.

The whole sequence is quite self -explanatory. It shows fear of not only the Palestinian natives in the country, but also the self -year -known threat that the settlers live in when deciding to occupy. Throughout this journey, Mo subtle hypocrisy, theft and exploitation, which is not only on a systemic scale, but also in micro, points out everyday cases.

Despite the overall conflicts that dictate MO and his family’s life — the constant supervision of the state with their every movement that is monitored is the threat of losing their small businesses, the year long battle to get asylum and Mo’s tumult Love Love Life -The drama here is in the details. It is in the conversations he has with his friends, the constant congestion to make ends meet and just belong.

They stay here

One of the most important elements of the show’s importance is that it will take place before October 7, 2023. Mo Make its timeline ready and end the season on October 6, 2023. This point is important because it defies and denies the propagated tale that the so -called ‘war’ started on October 7th. Mo Repeating what is a known fact that genocide and oppression of Palestine and Palestinians go back decades. And if you think about it, it is quite tragic that a people who have been exposed to such inhumane atrocities and treated as less than human in their own country of the occupying entity in close to a century must continue to provide evidence for their suffering and death.

The show is clear about where it stands. And it does not avoid the ideas it explores or complicates them with a mask of neutrality. The show says on no uncertain conditions that there is no time for neutrality in the suppression of times. And it says without being the preaching of his only goal to be to represent the people and their suffering.

But Mo is a show that is not only relevant because of what has happened since October 7th. It would be relevant in any era. Its empathy lies with Palestine, but it is a tale of the suffering of everyone who longs for the home.

During their visit to Palestine, MO finally finds the key he has dreamed of. It is the key to his grandparents’ house in Haifa, from which they were forced out of the Israeli settlers. Mo wants the key. But his uncle refuses to give it to him to go to America. “These are here and they will stay here.”

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