'The Wanted': Set Aside Your Apprehensions
Monday, July 20, 2009
While most people are probably familiar with that phrase "the banality of evil," "evil" can have a pathetic buffoonery to it as well. The first of the bad guys to be tracked down on "The Wanted," NBC's new real-life espionage series that launches a different manhunt each week, is sometimes known as "Bin Laden 2.0" -- the title a twisted testimonial to his abilities as a murderer.
His name, Mullah Krekar -- founder of an international terrorist organization called Ansar al-Islam -- sounds very much, when spoken, like "Moolah Cracker," and it is noted that his ricky-ticky whiskers are iconic to an organization whose claims to infamy include the boast that it "leads the world in beheadings." Time marches on -- yet simultaneously races backward as well.
Very little of "The Wanted" is dramatized or re-enacted, because in the new era of guerrilla television, the bad guys and good guys play themselves. It wasn't very hard to track down Mr. Cracker because he lives openly in Norway, even though the Norwegian Supreme Court ruled him a threat to national security and ordered that he be deported. The crack team of investigative journalists that produces "The Wanted" spent more than four hours with Krekar but appears to have come away somewhat dumbfounded. It is typical of terrorist organizations to exploit the freedoms of open societies that they would happily destroy and replace with totalitarian regimes. And so Krekar parades around Norway a relatively "free" man, while "The Wanted" team does what it can to trip him up.
Well, now you know, sometimes it really is all made up, but what you need is entertainment, well you got it .
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