TL;DR – It has an interesting premise that sucks you in, great cast, great locations, but the story was a bit hit and miss at times.
Score – 3.5 out of 5 stars

Review –
In a world full of stories you can use to draw inspiration from, it is
surprising that more shows don’t make use of the mythology and stories from the
Arabian Peninsula. It feels like it starts and stops with Aladdin
at times, at least in shows that make it to the west. But there are such a variety
of narratives that you could draw from to tell interesting stories. Today we
are looking at a TV series that is taking that opportunity with Jinn.
So to set the scene, we open in on Amman, Jorden as a school group gets ready
for a bus ride to Petra. You have the usual clicks appearing, you have Tarek (Abd
Alrazzaq Jarkas), Omar (Mohammad Hindieh), and Nasser (Mohammad Nizar) who are
part of the popular crowd and who are happy to torment Yassin (Sultan Alkhail)
who they think is telling on them to the teacher Ms Ola (Hana Chamoun). You
have the power couple in Mira (Salma Malhas) and Fahed (Yasser Al Hadi), the
mythology nerd Hassan (Zaid Zoubi) that just won’t shut up about Jinn. When
they get to Petra they start messing around and Tarek takes pleasure in
tormenting Yassin, but later that night after a few drinks tragedy strikes when
Tarek falls down a canyon wall. However, the question remains, did he fall, or was
he pushed, and if he was, what or who pushed him? Now from here, we will be
looking at the season as a whole so there will be [SPOILERS] ahead.