DAILY BEAST
This Chilling Drama Series About October 7 Will Leave You Shaken
Nick Schager
October 7, 2025

Time and distance often prove a benefit to understanding and processing unspeakable tragedies, especially when tackling them through a dramatic lens. Nonetheless, One Day in October uses immediacy to its moving advantage. An anthology about October 7 that’s debuting on HBO Max on the two-year anniversary of the attacks—and whose first four installments originally premiered in Israel last October 7—Oded Davidoff and Daniel Finkelman’s miniseries is a collection of dramatized true stories from that distressing day, affording intimate and urgent snapshots of the slaughter from a variety of divergent vantage points. Poignant and harrowing, it’s an act of memory, confrontation, and healing, as well as a challenge to the world to reckon with, and remember, an unfathomable atrocity. HBO Max provided press with two of One Day in October’s seven chapters, both of which exemplify the endeavor’s desire to look, closely and agonizingly, at an unspeakable nightmare. READ MORE. Click here to view One Day in October trailer

JEWISH JOURNAL ‘One Day in October’ and the Story That Hasn’t Ended The series interweaves the experiences of Israelis who lived October 7 in all its unimaginable horror. We saw the story of Omer Shem Tov, who spent 505 days in Hamas captivity — a reminder that while the series is titled One Day in October, that day has not ended. It continues for every hostage still held by Hamas and every Israeli praying for their return. We saw the story of parents who saved their infant daughter as Gazan civilians marauded through their home, setting it ablaze with the family inside. And we met an incredible young woman and warrior who helped save her kibbutz from being overrun by terrorists.