jasmann-narang Reviews

Sex Education (2019–2023)

Season 3 outdid the previous seasons!

[9/10 · 19 September 2021]

Quite literally, the best one!

Instead of going the cliched route of exploring stories just for the main characters, this season showed the growth of so many side characters that we actually felt their journey as well.

Overall, heartwarming, emotional and so much fun!

You also know that cliffhanger from the previous season most shows drag on until the end of the next one, they finally changed that and didn't drag it more than the story needed so that was great as well.

The Perfection (2018)

"Perfection Indeed." A plot so bizarre that eventually keeps you hooked.

[9/10 · 21 August 2021]

This movie, well it's clearly difficult to review and cannot be easily characterized. The plot is seemingly bizarre but keeps you hooked nonetheless. The twists were good enough for me to overlook how the plot is a bit weird.

But. The movie delivers, it's an unexpected, entertaining thriller that has a lot to offer.

8.5/10 from my end.

LOL - Hasse Toh Phasse (2021– )

The audience wins, because we don't ever laugh at this.

[1/10 · 1 May 2021]

As much as I hate to say it, the kind of comic timing and punchlines we'd expected from a lot that consisted of stand-up comics like Aakash Gupta, Aditi Mittal and comics who've monolgued and done bits on TV like Sunil Grover, this show fails in the one thing it promises the most, laughter.

At this point I'd say perhaps a particular season of Big Boss might have been better.

The pilot was an absolute chaos until Aditi Mittal was asked to perform, which is to say it didn't improve buy rather had a direction at the least.

Frivolous attempts are made either through cheap or cringy jokes but for some reason India's 'greatest' comics are able to laugh at them even tho the audience can't.

Lacks direction, bunch of people trying to make each other laugh just can't be equally funny to the audience sitting at the home at all, because the atmosphere there(on SET) might be a bit different. Therefore, much of the correlation between things was lost in cuts and the contestants narrating their actions as the show proceeds.

Pathetic attempts at a reality show.

This Is Us (2016–2022)

It's 4:57 am here and yet I could not resist myself from sharing my review on this show just because I loved it.

[9/10 · 17 October 2019]

Let me just begin and geek out by saying how I started the first season and binged it till the 3rd and now I am writing this review at 4:57 am, in my country and only because I could not 'not' share my review about this.

"This Is Us," is built around four characters who share the same birthday & it is a heartwarming and emotional story about the struggles and life of unique set of triplets and their wonderful parents.

This show celebrates the ordinary rhythms of family life, the unflashy joys of loving and being frustrated by your parents, or wanting to shoot the breeze with your siblings. It's also beautifully acted, most notably by Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown & Milo Ventimiglia. It validates it's characters' flaws and does not bow to hysterical dramatics, which the viewer's feel is something that makes it even more authentic!

In the age of Netflix and their cringy shows, I chose to watch This Is Us because it offers so much in so little, It talks about birth, death, career crisis, self-doubts, heart-to-hearts, reconciliations and never fails to make viewers feel something.

Possibly one of the best things in this show, is the ability of an American family to reach the hearts of audiences across the globe in a way that it manages to speak across cultures, resonate with audiences simply because of their characters and well thought storyline, being an Indian and having grown up in a completely different culture I can still feel the warmth of this show and appreciate it.

The first 4 seasons have just seemed perfect to me, 5th is where things really started going downhill.

Possibly the only reason I didn't give this a 10 and would have liked to give a 8.5, is that the buildup is so great but at times we don't get the adequate time to deal with the sudden buildup bursting within seconds. What I mean is, sometimes their buildup is so devastating that we would need a minute to react (and feel that the characters have reacted adequately) and the next second the scene has completely changed.

This is what turned out to be wrong with the beginning of the latest season(Season 5), even though it shows the transition to the almost apocalyptic pandemic society we seem to live in now, it throws at us emotions, situations and current happenings for the audiences to digest within a few scenes.

An amazingly executed drama, whose pilot should be enough to get you hooked because of it's own unique voice.

Edit: I have reviewed the beginning of Season 5 as well in this edit (first 5-6 episodes).