4 Reviews & a festival!
So.
You watch it all.
And now you are in trouble.
It's the weekend.
You ask your friends to suggest something better.
You scoff. What could possibly be better than these...?
Has anyone seen anything to top #Scam1992TheHarshadMehtaStory on #SonyLiv recently? (Self annointed #PratikGandhi Lifelong Fan club) I can't possibly recount any one scene or even a series of favourite scenes in this saga of 10 episodes of pure TV bliss. I think I am just blithely and blindly in love with such balanced, raw and sharp story telling, such fine acting and such terse script writing...it is a true blue Nostalgia trip done on the best steroids money can buy. I was back in school and Chandraswami was making headlines even as a smiling chubby Harshad was opening that suitcase (and a can of worms) with a hostile Ram Jethmalani by his side -sigh- golden days of journalism and newbie days of *scam* in a largely saintly world of Sucheta and CBI at Dalal Street & SBI)
I wasn’t impressed - Mirzapur 2.0 - loved some characters - but overall felt a certain drag. I loved Munna this time and his new bride. And her brain. Clever little women. Also Kaleen Bhaiyya and wife - mazedaar jodi by god. So happy to see Bauji meet “the end” so poetically.
#TrialofChicago7: Too well scripted and too well timed, each dialogue and all the facial expressions (bhaiyya bahutey jiyaada philmi hai)
& Phinally
#QueensGambit: Zimbly Zuperb. Love the ending, just love it when they get the Russian love love for chess down to pat. Watch it if you are a chess buff - Indian, American, Russian, French ... human and or not. It's that well researched and addictive. An ode to the game, albeit sadly, in fiction.
It is smart, enthralling and a little sexy, "The Queen's Gambit" has jumped to the No. 1 spot on Netflix in the U.S. for good reason.
Based on the novel by Walter Tevis, follows the rise of fictional chess prodigy Beth Harmon (a stunning Anya Taylor-Joy), a Kentucky orphan in the 1960s who learns the game from a janitor (Bill Camp) in her orphanage's basement. Anchored by a magnetic lead performance and bolstered by world-class acting, marvelous visual language, a teleplay that’s never less than gripping, and an admirable willingness to embrace contradiction and ambiguity, it’s one of the year’s best series.
..you can clearly tell by the exceptional nature of the reviews, just how precarious my present OTT circumstances are. I honestly need a new season of something to watch, so bail me out will ya?!!! 
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