Under The Radar: The world of spies is not glamorous—James Bond is a fairy tale. It is taking on new identities, going undercover in enemy territory, constantly looking over the…
Web Series Review
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La Dolce Vita: The first season of Mike White’s comedy-drama The White Lotus was set in a luxury resort in Hawaii, where the lampooning of the pampered rich and the obsequious staff,…
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Rich And Restless: Back in the Eighties, two soap operas were quite a rage Dallas and Dynasty, both about rich, feuding families. They were so successful they triggered off a spate of copy…
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Back To Truck Bar: When a journalist doing a story on potholes, walks down a pitted street and steps into a puddle wearing six-inch stilettoes, you know Four More Shots Please is…
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Family Secrets: The first season of Tripling came out in 2016, when the virus had not opened up the OTT Pandora’s box. The content was so different from the melodramatic and old-fashioned…
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Growing Up Pains: Every OTT platform bungs in a couple of ‘youth programmes’ into its slate of shows, and most of them look and sound similar, possibly because the problems…
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Alcott In Korea: Romantic soap operas and crime thrillers from Korea have caught on with viewers everywhere; it’s interesting to come across a modern…
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Packaged Mumbai: When the book Shantaram came out in 2003, it became a bestseller and for a few years, the author Gregory David Roberts became a toast of Mumbai’s Page 3…
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No Redeeming Features: In the British TV series, Fleabag, the protagonist says this of herself, “I have a horrible feeling that I’m a greedy, perverted, selfish, apathetic, cynical, depraved, morally bankrupt woman who can’t…
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Montana Mayhem: CJ Box writes books set in the great outdoors and Big Sky based on his Highway series is set in the vast wilderness of Montana. In the first two seasons, of the…