YMMV / Greyzone

• Alternate Character Interpretation: Eva. Is she a cold person who takes her job above everyone else, including her own daughter who she was neglectful to due to being busy with her job, or is it something she just has to do to protect her country? Is it justified?
• Complete Monster: Al-Shishani, real name Rami Wahid, is one of the world's most dangerous terrorists and the cold, no-nonsense leader of the terrorist cell Iyad Adi Kassa] works for, though stands in stark contrast to the sympathetic, well-intentioned Iyad as a cruel man. In the present, Shishani has Iyad hold the drone inventor Victoria Rahbeck hostage and use her technological knowledge to help them create a drone, under the threat of killing her son Oskar. In his very first physical appearance, Shishani stabs a Muslim priest who worked for their organization for being an informant to the police. When Victoria tries copying a drone despite not having the authority to do so, her colleague and friend Linda comes and tries stopping her, leading Shishani to order one of his operatives to strangle and kill Linda. When the police investigate a room the terrorists recently were in, Shishani has a bomb planted in a backpack which explodes, killing dozens of officers in the process. In the final episode, Shishani changes the coordinates of their terrorist attack from the original target—a conference which was supposed to be full of Asshole Victims but which ended up being empty—to rigshospitalet, the biggest hospital in Denmark; just because. When Iyad betrays the group after the cruel change of plans and decides to spare Victoria and Oskar after Shishani orders them executed, Shishani coldly shoots him.
• Cry for the Devil: It's very easy to feel bad for Iyad. He's pretty much a completely regular dude who just so happened to go through something horrible which he wants to stop from happening in the future, not to mention that he really does care for Victoria and Oskar.
• He Really Can Act:
  • There really was never any doubt about Birgitte Hjort Sørensen being a good actor, but her performance in this show really shines through and is very impressive.
  • Ardalan Esmaili was a fairly unknown actor before this series, only known for appearing for roughly a minute as a murder-victim in Martin Beck, but here he portrays Iyad and does it extremely well, pulling of a sympathetic villain very nicely.