If you hire artists to come on your successful TV show's set and to make it look authentic for shooting an upcoming episode and they end up embarrassing you in front of the entire world, you probably won't respond very well to that situation.
Surprisingly however, the co-creator and show-runner of the award-winning American series "Homeland," which some see as "the most bigoted show on television," did not respond with contempt to the Arab artists who sabotaged his show's episode .
“We wish we’d caught these images before they made it to air," Alex Gansa said in a statement released to Entertainment Weekly .
"However, as Homeland always strives to be subversive in its own right and a stimulus for conversation, we can’t help but admire this act of artistic sabotage," he added.
Artists Heba Amin, Caram Kapp and Stone were asked by the show's creators to paint Arabic graffiti on the set of an episode being shot in Germany to make it look more genuine.
They decided, however, that they would use the opportunity to make a statement about the show's less-than-tolerant depictions of Arabs, Muslims and basically anything or anyone related to the Middle East.
The three artists painted short and simple Arabic sentences that carried powerful messages that were perfect commentary on the show's blatantly biased representation of the Arab world.
No one on the set noticed what was being written and so the episode was shot and aired with the graffiti clearly visible and the show's producers, cast and crew not knowing a thing.
The sentences that were written include "Homeland is racist", "Homeland is not a series", "Homeland is a joke and it didn't make us laugh", "#blacklivesmatter" and "The situation is not to be trusted".
The bold move was considered a form of genius. So perhaps it's not all that surprising that even the creator of the show himself admired the "artistic sabotage."