About Rashash
Rashash is a Saudi Arabian crime drama that dramatizes the rise and fall of an infamous outlaw who operated across the Kingdom during the 1970s and 1980s. Produced by MBC Studios as one of the largest Arabic-language productions made for a streaming platform at the time, the eight-episode limited series traces how a small-time troublemaker drifted into smuggling and violent crime, and how that path eventually drew the full attention of the authorities. The show frames the story as a cautionary period piece rather than a celebration of its subject.
Across its run the series alternates between the world of the fugitive and his small circle of associates and the patient, methodical work of the police officers assigned to track him. Set against stark desert highways, modest towns, and the changing social landscape of mid-century Saudi Arabia, Rashash leans on atmosphere and procedural tension more than spectacle, presenting its central figure as a product of circumstance whose choices carry steep human cost for those around him.
Created by veteran British screenwriter Tony Jordan and directed by Colin Teague, the production paired an all-Saudi lead cast with an international crew, and was partly filmed in the United Arab Emirates. Drawing on accounts of a widely known real case, the drama positions itself as historical true crime, emphasizing the eventual reach of the law and the toll the manhunt took on families, communities, and the officers involved.
