I'd recorded the series and asked dp to give the first episode a try with me last night. We ended up binge watching all 4 episodes. I think it's the most powerful drama that I've seen all year.
Yes, most of the things that happened are things that we've already heard about in the news. But unfortunately you can become habituated to the horrors and start to tune out - especially if you don't have any personal connection to that part of the world or to anybody who comes from that part of the world.
The cumulative effect of watching so many terrible things being perpetrated or witnessed by characters that I came to care about was emotionally draining.
Why did nice ISIS man try to get Yazidi woman and child out of Syria when they didn't want to leave him? And when he offered care and protection?
I think that he was aware how precarious life was out there and how most Isis fighters are likely to die. He could only care for them while he was alive. As soon as he was "martyred" then she'd be back in the slave market and would probably be bought by somebody as brutal as her previous "owner".