Top billed cast

1. 

   Jeff Daniels

   John O'Neill

2. 

   Tahar Rahim

   Ali Soufan

3. 

   Wrenn Schmidt

   Diane Priest

4. 

   Bill Camp

   Robert Chesney

5. 

   Louis Cancelmi

   Vince Stuart

6. 

   Virginia Kull

   Kathy Shaughnessy

7. 

   Ella Rae Peck

   Heather

8. 

   Sullivan Jones

   Floyd Bennet

9. 

   Michael Stuhlbarg

   Richard Clarke

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Current Season

Season 1

2018 | 10 Episodes

Reviews

A review by Stephen Campbell

Written by Stephen Campbell on 2019-10-06

**_Complex, intelligent, and sobering; superb television_**

>أَيْنَمَا تَكُونُواْ يُدْرِككُّمُ الْمَوْتُ وَلَوْ كُنتُمْ فِي بُرُوجٍ مُّشَيَّدَةٍ

>[_Wherever you are, death will find you, even in the looming tower._]

- _Qur'an_; Surah 4 Āyah 78

>_We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a_ [redacted] _in 1998 saying that Bin Ladin wanted to hijack a US aircraft to gain the release of "Blind Shaykh" Umar Abd al-Rahman and other US-held extremists._...read the rest

Recommendations

1. Homeland75%
2. Condor70%
3. Lioness79%
4. Fringe81%
5. The Enemy Within69%
6. Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan76%
7. The Recruit74%
8. Millennium77%
9. Invasion70%
10. The Blacklist76%
11. Zero Day69%
12. Colony68%
13. Clarice68%
14. The Night Agent77%
15. Defiance67%
16. Eleventh Hour66%
17. Emergence69%
18. The Company You Keep72%
19. Allegiance67%
20. CIA86%

Status
Ended

Original Language
English

Original Name
The Looming Tower

Keywords

• central intelligence agency (cia)
• fbi
• terrorism
• iraq war
• 9/11
• iraq invasion
• terrorist threat