Limited series · Netflix
Paranormal
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Ahmed Amin
Refaat Ismail
6 eps
Razane Jammal
Maggie Mckillop
6 eps
Aya Samaha
Huwaida Abdel Moniem
6 eps
Reem Abdel Qader
Shiraz
6 eps
Samaa Ibrahem
Raeefa Ismail
6 eps
Rushdi Al-Shami
Reda Ismail (Adult)
6 eps
Ahmed Dash
Reda Ismail (Young)
6 eps
Adam Wahdan
Taha
6 eps
Abdel Samee Abdel Allah
6 eps
Hesham Kadry
6 eps
Heba ElDessouqy
6 eps
Sherif Desouqy
6 eps
Ahmed Talaat
6 eps
Huda ElMufti
6 eps
Fatima Al-Banawi
6 eps
Sulafa Ghanem
6 eps
Amgad ElHaggar
6 eps
Ibram Saed
6 eps
Abdelsamee Abdallah
Kamal
3 eps
Karim El Hakim
Louis
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Paranormal actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Paranormal reads strongest on Bingeability, Character Depth and Serialized.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Set in the 1960s; Paranormal follows the adventures of Dr. Refaat Ismail, a professor of hematology, as he comes up against various supernatural events with the help of his Scottish old flame, Maggie.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Mohamed HefzyProducer
- Amr SalamaExecutive Producer
Writing
- Omar KhaledWriter
- Mahmoud EzzatWriter
- Dina MaherWriter
- Amr SalamaWriter
Direction
- Majid Al AnsariDirector
- Amr SalamaDirector
Cinematography
- Ahmed BesharyDirector of Photography
Music
- Khaled Al KammarOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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