""Do you think this attack came in a particular context?" the journalist asks Taasa, played by Yael Abecassis. "Excuse me?" she asks. "This story has two sides," the journalist says. "Can you explain why you were attacked?" Taasa looks at him in blank, exhausted disgust and then looks straight into the camera. "Do you want to know what I saw on the road when we were rescued? How many bodies of naked women? Dead? In torn underwear?""
"One Day in October, a Fox Entertainment production now on HBO Max, is one of two new scripted streaming series released in the United States on the second anniversary of the October 7 attack. The other, a Keshet Media production available on Paramount+, is called Red Alert. Both series drop viewers into the horror of that day. Families huddled in safe rooms assume the sirens will end soon but grow alarmed as the sound of gunfire builds."
One Day in October dramatises the October 7 Hamas attack by centering victims' immediate experiences and emotional aftermath. A recreated interview shows Sabine Taasa refusing contextual questions and confronting a journalist with traumatic images seen during rescue. Both One Day in October and Red Alert place viewers inside moments of terror: families hiding in safe rooms, festivalgoers trapped in a portable toilet, and civilians abducted from their homes. Both productions emphasize factual detail and verisimilitude, incorporating real footage and evidence to ground their dramatizations in documented events.
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