146. Web-series Reviews – 17

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Mr Robot – Mr. Robot is an American drama thriller television series created by Sam Esmail for USA Network. It stars Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson, a cybersecurity engineer and hacker with social anxiety disorder and clinical depression. Elliot is recruited by an insurrectionary anarchist known as "Mr. Robot", played by Christian Slater, to join a group of hacktivists called "fsociety". The group aims to destroy all debt records by encrypting the financial data of E Corp, the largest conglomerate in the world.

Consisting of 4 seasons of 45 episodes, each about an hour long.  Saw only the first season.  Did not find it that interesting.  Later read about the other seasons’ story in Wikipedia😊.

Cracker – Cracker is a British crime drama series.  Set in Manchester, the series follows a criminal psychologist (or "cracker"), Dr Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald, played by Robbie Coltrane, who works with the Greater Manchester Police to help them solve crimes. The show consists of three series which were originally aired from 1993 to 1995. A 100-minute special set in Hong Kong followed in 1996 and another two-hour story in 2006. In 2000, the series was ranked 39 on the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes compiled by the British Film Institute.

Each case spanned several episodes and cliffhangers were quite often used, but it was not until the end of the second series that a cliffhanger was employed to tie off the series. Some of the plotlines in the cases took as their starting point real events such as the Hillsborough disaster, while others were purely fictional with only tangential ties to actual events.

Several different psychotic types were explored during the run of the show with increasingly complex psychological motivations that, as the series entered the middle of the second series, began to expand beyond the criminals being investigated to the regular cast members. As the series moved forward the storylines became as much about the interactions of the regulars as it was about the crimes. In many later episodes, in fact, the crimes often became background to intense, provocative explorations of the police officers' reactions to the crimes they investigated.

To emphasise how fine a line the police (and Fitz) walk in their close association with criminals, all three series featured several stories in which the police become victims of crime or themselves commit criminal acts like rape, obstruction of justice and assault and battery.

Robbie Coltrane also acted as Hagrid in the Harry Potter series😊.  Series is definitely worth a watch. 

Ashram – Hindi language crime drama web-series by Prakash Jha and starring Bobby Deol.  The story revolves around a Baba (preacher) known as 'Baba Nirala.'. Whose followers have blind faith in him and will do anything that he asks of them. But it is for sure that this Baba Nirala is a conman, who makes sure that his devotees leave behind all kinds of 'moh-maya' and stays attached to the Ashram for life.

Meanwhile, Darshan Kumar, is a cop in this series. Furthermore, he is adamant about unraveling the truth behind the skeletons and dead bodies recovered from the Ashram's property.

Every episode unfolds a mystery that revolves around the Baba Nirala. Whether the cop will find evidence and prove anything is left for the Part II of 'Aashram' season 1, which they announced very subtly as the show ends. 

Worth a watch.

Cheers till next time!!

Today’s Observation

Some people talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence!