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The decisive moment comes when his soft spoken hesitant manner gives way to a fiery authority during a schoolboy prank in his first session. John Duttine is perfectly cast as the shell-shocked Powlett-Jones, nicknamed PJ, who, on returning from the trenches of the First World War, tentatively takes a step into the world of Bamfylde School for boys and eventually regains his confidence. I doubt if the BBC ever produced a finer drama series than this. I loved it then and watched it with greater appreciation on DVD – although I have one gripe which has led to me docking one star and I’ll get to that at the end. The first season of Mo (opens in new tab) is now streaming with a Netflix subscription.I saw this series when it was first shown on the BBC back in the early 80s. Mo marks another first in the Muslim community, this time with a Palestinian-American story at the forefront. Marvel tackled Muslim culture along with its own story about Pakistani characters. Marvel becoming the first superhero of the religion. In recent months alone, the Muslim community has seen representation with Ms. It's never, there's never been a narrative show out of Houston ever. Houston, wanted to be a character in the show. There's 60 minutes that you wanna put together and put 10 people on a ride where for this, you're talking about a visual, where you want people to see. It was really tense, but in the end, like stand up comedy, you're up there by yourself, right? Telling a story it's self deprecating sometimes, observational and it's constructed within this hour.

I found it to be really rewarding, not only artistically, but in life personally that I needed to go through this artistic expression so I can be better for it as a human being. He created the series alongside Ramy creator Ramy Youssef, a show he has had a supporting role on for its two seasons. While not every element of Mo comes from his life – such as being grazed by a bullet at a grocery store in the first episode – Mo Amer drew from a lot of his own memories to tell the show’s story. You know what I mean? Like it just took a lot of intestinal fortitude to get through some of those things. And, a massive undertaking, and also very cathartic because you're sharing really intimate things or creating scenarios from your very private library of life. And so it wasn't just that it was highly painful to go through. You're the creator of the show, every single page that went out, whether it credited or not, I rewrote and worked on and had a big part to do with it, to guide the story through cause in the end it was my family story that was fictionalized in this world. It was so much more complex in that everyone was looking at you to make decisions.

Right? And it wasn't just being an actor on set. However, as he shares, his story is really a universal one that can bring together a lot more than Muslim and Palestinian communities. The series will serve as rare representation of a Muslim character on TV, specially drawing from his life growing up in Houston, Texas as a Palestinian refugee. So that's something that was very deliberate in writing a series and putting it together. Everyone has felt insecure about where they are in the world either socially or what have you, or living even paycheck to paycheck and struggling to try to take care of their family. It's something that everyone can relate to. Yes, it's like a Palestinian refugee immigrant story of working on the table, fish-out-of-water, trying to fit in and be seen and be accepted. My mother, my ancestors, my brother to all have inspired this great story to tell.

I've just been banking all these great stories – hard, painful stories that have happened to me throughout my life and fictionalizing them to make a series like we have, they're all inspired by it. With that, he had the chance to tell an honest story based on his own life experiences. That’s exactly what he did, and It became the flashback in Mo's seventh episode. However, his colleagues in the business suggested he wait and make it part of a series. During CinemaBlend’s interview with Mo Amer, the comedian shared with me that Mo started when he wrote the story of his mother fleeing the war to come to America with hopes to film it for one of his comedy specials.