Why Chris Evans New Show Is So Controversial

Why Chris Evans’ New Show Is So Controversial

Chris Evans’ upcoming series Influence and Power in the Middle East has garnered massive backlash online. Here’s why the project is so controversial.

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Why Chris Evans New Show Is So Controversial

MCU star Chris Evans is at the center of controversy following a major backlash to his next project, a six-part series titled Influence and Power in the Middle East. The documentary is being produced under Evans’ civic media company A Starting Point, whose stated mission is to connect politicians of different parties with each other and the public to create educational video content on contemporary social and political issues. Here’s why Evans’ latest project has become so controversial.

Influence and Power in the Middle East is a series that will “explore America’s past, present and future in the region,” per Deadline. Fellow filmmaker Mark Kassen and businessman Joe Kiani worked with Evans on the project, which will be hosted by former CIA operative and current Texas representative Will Hurd. The six-part series will feature interviews and commentary from a number of prominent American political figures, including former UN ambassador John Bolton and former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.

That extensive list of political figures and commentators is the main reason for the backlash against the project, specifically because the group is overwhelmingly American, with very little apparent space given to Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) voices. The history of U.S. military and political activity in the region over the past few decades is, to put it lightly, a mess, with many experts attributing the modern trends of destabilization and radicalization in the Middle East as being directly caused by American military occupation. Therefore, a documentary that only really includes the opinions and experiences of the American leaders responsible for that occupation is understandably a controversial move.

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The online backlash to Evans’ new documentary show mostly falls along the same focused line of criticism – if the filmmakers want to talk honestly about the U.S.’s role in modern geopolitics in the Middle East, they must include voices and experiences from those actually affected in the region. Without that, and with only a collection of American political and military figures as the centerpiece of the documentary, many have decried the project as propaganda that will do little to address America’s mistakes. With the series premiering in just a couple of weeks, there’s no time for Influence and Power in the Middle East to reevaluate or change course, even if A Starting Point were interested in doing so.

As evidenced by the recent Taliban takeover of Afghanistan following the hasty removal of U.S. troops, the ramifications of America’s mistake-riddled history in the region are still immediate and ongoing. An in-depth, bipartisan analysis of that history is a good idea in theory. But clearly, many people have taken issue with how Evans’ project is going about such a discussion, and the voices it appears to be excluding in the process.

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