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More web-series… some more Indian ones… Bombay Begums – Bombay Begums is an Indian drama web series for Netflix starring Pooja Bhatt. It explores the lives of five ambitious women from various walks of life navigating through their dreams, desires and disappointments, from boardrooms to society’s margins, in modern-day Mumbai. It was released on Netflix in March 2021. One of the reviews from IMDB... If you want to watch a boring, senseless 4 hrs drama of wrongly portrait feminism than this is your show. Special mention to this naive actress plabita borthakur. One word 'nauseous'. And these are my wife's opinion about this show - This show intending to be feministic is just demeaning women in all ways it can , Women today work so hard managing work as well as the household duties, and this show tries to portray women in a light where they are messed up, non decisive, venting out their frustrations by cheating on their partners. Kindly do not portray women of this ...

More web-series… some more Indian ones… Maharani – Released in 2021.  This is a fictional story, where Rani Bharti (Huma Qureshi) is a homemaker and the wife of Bihar's chief minister Bheema (Sohum Shah). All she cares about is her house and her husband. She wants to pack her bags and go back to the village after her husband resigns from the post of Bihar's CM. But her life takes a turn when her husband and Bihar's CM is made to announce the name of his successor. While his party members look excited to hear who has been appointed, he makes Rani his successor, leaving everyone surprised. A review from IMDB... A story blended with reality but with an ending far too fictious, Maharani is definitely intriguing thanks to the beautiful transition in the character arc of Huma Qureshi. All actors have done their job well as required. The story and writing was pretty simple, predictable and dull sometimes but the series did not seem boring at any point of time. Watch it if i...

More web-series… Indian ones 😊 … Chacha Vidhayak Hain Hamare – This is an Indian comedy streaming television series created by Zakir Khan,and starring Zakir Khan, Alka Amin and Zakir Hussain. It is an Amazon Prime exclusive series and premiered on 18 May 2018. The Second season of the show was released on 26 March 2021. Story of the series revolves around Ronny (Zakir Khan), a young lad whose life is not driven by big ambitions. All he wants is a comfortable life where he can boast about himself using convenient lies. He's the boss of his cocoon where his followers take his word for the ultimate truth, all because he pretends that his Uncle is an MLA. In the second season, as Ronny's dream of becoming a politician starts to materialize, a tough opponent Vicky enters his life who disrupts his political ambition and personal relationships. A review from IMDB... Zakir khan take a bow. A class act from start to finish. Zakir khan plays Ronnie, a boy next door in Indore....

More web-series Reviews… Hustle – Hustle is a British television crime drama series starring Adrian Lester, Robert Glenister and Robert Vaughn. The show premiered on 24 February 2004, and ran for eight series, with its final episode aired on 17 February 2012. The show's premise is on a group of con artists who specialise in "long cons" – extended forms of deceptive frauds that require greater commitment, but offer higher rewards than simple confidence tricks. The show's most notable qualities are plots that involve behind-the-scenes action that the viewers are unaware of until near the end of an episode, along with fantasy scenes and occasional breaches of the fourth wall by the main actors. One of the reviews from IMDB... Thank God that AMC saw the light &, in conjunction with the BBC, allowed us "Yanks" to view one of the coolest shows to come on the scene in decades. When AMC initially aired trailers for it two years ago, I intended on checking...

More web-series reviews... Arne Dahl – Jan Arnald is a Swedish novelist and liter ary critic, who uses the pen name Arne Dahl when writing crime fiction. He is also a regular writer in Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. Under his pen name, he has written a series of crime novels about a fictional group of Swedish crime investigators, called "A Gruppen" in Swedish and "the Intercrime Group" in the first English translation. The books are translated into several languages. The first five books were made into 180-minute films, screened as two 90-minute episodes per story. The first, Misterioso, was screened on SVT1 in Sweden in 2011, with the following four stories shown in eight weekly instalments between October and December 2012. The series was picked up by BBC Four and screened on British television on Saturday nights as part of BBC Four's foreign crime series season starting in April 2013. 2 seasons with a total of 10 episodes. A review from IMDB... This...

More we-series reviews… Don’t F**K with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer – This is a 2019 true crime docuseries about an online manhunt. The 3-part docuseries chronicles events following a crowd-sourced amateur investigation into a series of animal cruelty acts committed by Canadian pornographic actor Luka Magnotta, culminating in his murder of Chinese international student Jun Lin. It was one of Netflix's Top 5 most-watched documentaries of 2019.  One of the reviews from IMDB… New on Netflix today, I figured I'll watch the first episode before getting ready for work. I'm now late and have binged all 3 episodes. It's cost me £15 in lost wages, and worth every minute! It's a well-researched, skillfully written and edited documentary that is a very relevant critique of our modern culture. The soundtrack adds another layer and helps to build up the tension nicely. No spoilers, don't worry. The doc' ends up questioning our values, the desire for fame and ...

  More web-series with female detectives… Those Who Kill – Den Som Dreaber – Another Danish crime series 😊 which specializes in investigating serial murders.  Came out in 2011.  I haven’t seen the American version, which was a copy of this.   Review of the Danish version from an IMDB user… Finished watching the only season of this Danish TV serial which is being remade for US right now. Every episode is almost 1.5 hrs, characters are same but every episode comes up with a new serial killer to analysis and catch. A female lead detective pairs with a talented but problematic forensic psychiatrist to catch these killers. They all have their share of personal problems to handle. Katrine (Detective) has been abused as a child by her stepfather and Thomas (FP) always grasping to retain balance between his work or job that he desires and his family. Now the stories. Every serial killer is different, everyone has their own way of thinking and different way of ki...