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The Temptation of Trash TV: Why You Need Need Bigg Boss After BoJack

It’s the age of #PeakTV, and there’s a plethora of content out there that is intellectually stimulating, aesthetically pleasing, and artistically rewarding. But it is possible to have too much of a good thing. Acclaimed shows are like caviar – perfectly fine to treat yourself to, but sometimes you just want good old vada pav.

Dushyant Shekhawat June 26, 2016

Pop Culture

Mindhunter Review: A Second Season that’s Actually Good, Unlike Sacred Games

Both Mindhunter and Sacred Games became jewels in Netflix’s streaming crown on the backs of their riveting first seasons. But while Mindhunter manages to recapture the brooding atmosphere that was its signature, Sacred Games’ well seems like it’s starting to run dry.

Dushyant Shekhawat June 25, 2016

Bollywood

The White Tiger Review: It’s Adarsh Gourav’s Show All the Way

Adarsh Gourav, in his debut feature film role, is up to the task of being the glue that holds The White Tiger together. His character is both the flawed hero and the unreliable narrator, existing on society’s underbelly first out of choice, and then out of compulsion.

Arré Bench June 24, 2016

Pop Culture

Netflix’s “Unbelievable” Sets a Template for How to Sensitively Deal with True Stories of Rape

Netflix's Unbelievable, that comprises a record of both, how an investigation can go utterly wrong and how one carried out with the highest diligence can afford justice, feels like a defining show of our times. Based on real-life rape cases, the show is as much a reminder of the lapses of law and order as it is a plea that any system is as good as the people enforcing it.

Poulomi Das June 23, 2016

People

The In-Betweeners: Millennials Who Aren’t Millennial Enough

We were born in the ’80s; and we’re millennials too. But we’re also the last generation to have actually known what life without internet and mobile phones looked like.

Riddhi K June 23, 2016

Pop Culture

Stranger Things and the Beauty of the Steve-Dustin Bromance

The Steve-Dustin bromance is an unlikely alliance of opposites, that cut across the boundaries of type and age. It’s also the sweetest thing Stranger Things will leave us with.

Deepansh Duggal June 22, 2016

POV

Thar Review: Lots of Style, but Little Substance

Spectacular to look at, Thar sports a more than decent performance by Anil Kapoor. Everything else about the film though underwhelms.

Divya Unny June 21, 2016

Pop Culture

How David Fincher Hijacks Our Imagination in Mindhunter Season 2

Eliciting discomfort from viewers is an art that David Fincher has mastered over his decorated film career. With Mindhunter, a true-crime show on serial killers, he uses this art to swap gratuitous violence and gore with conversations about it. The result is horrifying and suspenseful in equal measure.

Ronak Gupta June 21, 2016

Bollywood

Class of 83 Review: Netflix Film Offers the Dangerous Idea of a Police Force Answerable to No One

Despite the disclaimer at the beginning of the Bobby Deol-starrer Class of 83, the message that the film unwittingly “endorses” is this: The police force can only live up to its fullest potential when they have no one to answer to, which is an altogether scary proposition even in the realms of fiction.

Poulomi Das June 16, 2016

Pop Culture

Jorge Salcedo: The True Gentleman of Cali

Narcos’ Jorge Salcedo has emerged as a metaphor for the average man who gets fucked from every side in the war on drugs.

Parthshri Arora June 14, 2016