Tag: American Odyssey

American Odyssey’s Yousef Sweid and Peter Horton On Shakir Khan, Conspiracy Theories and More!

American Odyssey (NBC, Sundays, 10/9C) has been compared (positively and negatively) to Homeland. It’s a complex show with threads that link three different locales and sets of related characters to a conspiracy within the military-industrial complex – all tied together through a female Special Forces solider named Sgt. Odelle Ballard. In last week’s episode, one […]

Interview: Creators/Executive producers Adam Armus and Nora Kay Foster chat about American Odyssey

A team of American soldiers battles jihadists in North Africa and kills Al Qaeda’s top commander.  However, celebration is short lived when the entire team is terminated soon after, except for one–soldier, mother, and wife Sergeant Odelle Ballard (Anna Friel).   Unbeknownst to her family, Ballard survives the attack and is the only witness to the […]