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Masaba Masaba Exposes the Dark Side of Girlbossing
Though Masaba Masaba looks stylised and elite, it also captures the dark, often underexplored and unsexy side of Girlbosses.
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Will the Burari Deaths Become the Next Netflix True Crime Show?
At a time when true crime shows and podcasts are ubiquitous, the way we “consume” a murder has changed. A few years from now, the Burari case might become a Netflix series, and the way we are following it now is dictated by our hunger for a true crime show.
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In House of Cards, It’s All About Claire
On Monday, Netflix announced that it would forward with the final season of House Of Cards without Kevin Spacey. The show will now instead focus on Claire Underwood; a move that the makers should have made two seasons ago.
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Why I Can’t Bring Myself to Say Goodbye to BoJack Horseman
Netflix’s BoJack Horseman has made a habit of hitting its viewers right in the feels – but my feels are not ready for the final blow. The show was an uncannily accurate mirror of our own lives, which is why the thought of a less-than-happy ending for our protagonist is so terrifying.
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Hey Netflix, Ditch Narcos. The Karnataka Elections Deserve a Show
News reports, think pieces, and analysis aren’t doing the cliffhanger elections in Karnataka any justice. With all the absurd drama that has unfolded this week, our netas deserve their own multi-genre TV show – working title, Kar-Naatak, The Wild Wild State.
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Sacred Games Season 2 Review: Netflix’s Gangster Drama Has a Ganesh Gaitonde Problem
The second season of Sacred Games remains intriguing and baffling at the same time. It insidiously sprawls and at times, there is no differentiating between intent or accident, quality or scale. Moreover, it has a visible Gaitonde problem, a gospel it has built and now can’t shake.
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Minimalism Ki Maa Ki ***! Why It’s Impossible for Middle-Class Indians to Declutter
My mother believes that we are way ahead on the minimalism curve because unlike her friends she does not preserve restaurant bills from two years ago. But when I ask her to throw away the torn T-shirts and Absolut Vodka bottles, she insists that they deserve a second life as dusters and money plant holders.
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Kapil Sharma’s I’m Not Done Yet is a Charm Offensive that only Confirms his Pedigree
Kapil Sharma has been routinely written off and criticised for his brand of comedy, but it’s also fact that he is now too big to fail, or become the butt of someone else’s joke in a practical sense. His Netflix special only proves that Sharma can become the comedian, woke audiences want him to be, but simply chooses not to.
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Delhi Crime Review: An Unsettling Retelling of the 2012 Delhi Gang-Rape Probe, Minus Any Super Cops
Delhi Crime chronicles the three days of a nationwide manhunt for the six men responsible for the 2012 Delhi gang rape. Much of what happens in the series is well-known, but it is still compelling for it doesn’t glamourise either the police’s job or its capability to do so. This is reality, the series seems to say – deal with it.
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Why Better Call Saul is 5X Greater than Breaking Bad
Better Call Saul is incredibly ambitious – for 5 seasons now, it has operated without the traditional ruse of a finale. On the other hand, it has consistently dangled the far future, the grim monotonous limbo of a wildly colourful man all the while working in the shadow of some of his life displayed in Breaking Bad.