Hours before delivering the final cut of Red Alert, executive producer Lawrence Bender studies shades of gray. The color of smoke billowing from fires in the distance of a scene must be just right.

Bender, who rose to Hollywood prominence producing Quentin Tarantino’s films, had pulled an all-nighter in his Holmby Hills house to finish the series. The deadline isn’t elastic; Red Alert streams on Paramount+ on October 7, the second anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel.

Chatting over Zoom, Bender aims his phone at his monitor to introduce some of the crew in Israel as they make final color corrections. This four-part drama is scripted but not fictionalized. Actors portray real people’s verified accounts from that day.

On Oct.7, 2023, Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and killed 1,200 J

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