The Outsider: If the village-based series, Panchayat, were to be darker and less fairy-tale like, then it could become Nirmal Pathak Ki Ghar Wapsi. In this SonyLiv series too, the protagonist is a city-bred man…
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Back To Phulera: The first season of Panchayat came out in 2020, a little after Covid19 locked down everything and an OTT boom hit television viewers of the country. The Viral Fever…
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Romancing The City: A series of real-life stories contributed by people to The New York Times for a column called Modern Love was converted by John Carney into a web series with the same title.…
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The wickedly pulpy Bollywoodian crime-revenge-family drama, Savage Beauty, is a kind of Succession, set in South Africa, with Black actors. If in American shows, the characters are all look sleek, clad…
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Cowboy Country: Created by Brian Watkins, Outer Range is not a straight cowboys-on-ranch series. It is a fascinating, sometimes confusing, blend of sci-fi fantasy, mythology and family drama. The best thing about stories…
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Spy Versus Spy: Mick Herron created with his Slough House series of novels, a wonderfully absurd world of espionage. The most memorable character in his books is Jackson Lamb, the foul-mouthed and flatulent…
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The viewer gets a non-touristy look at London, but there was no real reason for this series to be set in the UK capital. The comparison to Luther, with its troubled…
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Don’t Mess With Mom: The six-part series, Mai, begins with Sheel sweeping the house, washing and drying clothes, cooking, to establish that the woman (Sakshi Tanwar) is an ‘ordinary’ homemaker. As…
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Lies, Deceit and Family Mayhem: In the OTT space in India, thrillers seem to be popular regardless of the violence, sex and profanity that are the norm. A few of…
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Murder, He Wrote: The publishing industry is going through tough times, and Anthony Horowitz’s novel Magpie Murders captures the end of that glorious era, when writers of bestselling whodunits could make millions…