In this four-hour adaptation, the entire story is related in flashback by de Pablo’s Shirah, and the lover of the Jews’ leader, Eleazar Ben Ya’ir (Mido Hamada), who cunningly uses guerrilla tactics to keep the invaders at bay and Yael (Rachel Brosnahan), who has her own woeful tale of misfortune, lost love and hopeless romance, including a relationship with a captured slave (Diarmaid Murtagh). The conceit behind Hoffman’s novel was to tell that story through the eyes of several women involved, offering ample opportunity for sex and violence along the way. As is, “Dovekeepers” should be most notable to fans of “NCIS” by offering a chance to see Cote de Pablo in a different setting, although before it’s over, the body count in this tale of ancient Israel will be at a level that would occupy her former colleagues for years.įor those fuzzy on the history, Masada was the mountain stronghold where 900 rebellious, vastly outnumbered Jews held off a Roman legion in 70 C.E., before eventually being overrun and meeting a tragic end.
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