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Getting Over Endgame: How to Survive the End of a Franchise that Feels Like Family

Our emotional investment in the characters on screen – be it Iron Man or Tyrion Lannister – is more than most millennials invest in a relationship. But is this merely a mindless addiction, or is there something more that we’re missing?

Meghalee Mitra July 4, 2016

Pop Culture

Veep Gave Us What Game of Thrones Might Not: A Climax We Enjoyed

Last Monday, as King’s Landing turned into a literal metaphor of the dropping writing standards in the Game of Thrones team, Veep delivered a spectacular series finale. It hit the right emotional beats, delivered a scathing critique of modern-day American politics, and tied its seven-season long storyline to a logical end – all while being laugh out loud hilarious.

Prthvir Solanki June 24, 2016

Pop Culture

Netflix’s “Unbelievable” Sets a Template for How to Sensitively Deal with True Stories of Rape

Netflix's Unbelievable, that comprises a record of both, how an investigation can go utterly wrong and how one carried out with the highest diligence can afford justice, feels like a defining show of our times. Based on real-life rape cases, the show is as much a reminder of the lapses of law and order as it is a plea that any system is as good as the people enforcing it.

Poulomi Das June 23, 2016

Documentary

Knock Down the House Isn’t About Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alone. It’s a Roadmap for a Political System

There’s more to Netflix’s Knock Down the House than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her journey to becoming a Congresswoman. Instead, the documentary is a record of the struggle of “getting everyday Americans represented by everyday Americans” and the near lack of space that the nation’s politics reserves for women.

Poulomi Das May 28, 2016

Coronavirus

Coronavirus Bingewatch: When Real Life Gets Apocalyptic, Westworld’s Sci-Fi Dystopia is Comforting

Those worried that Westworld had devolved into a stoned humanities student’s ramblings masquerading as a TV show, I’m happy to inform that era of the show has passed. So is it worth returning to Westworld? For fans, detractors, and even people quarantined because of the coronavirus, the answer is a resounding yes.

Dushyant Shekhawat April 3, 2016

Pop Culture

Laakhon Mein Ek Review: An Engaging and Politically Relevant Study of India’s Healthcare System

Biswa Kalyan Rath’s Laakhon Mein Ek comes across as a rarity in the Indian landscape of fiction series by refusing to drag season one’s resonant storyline to inspire a second season. Instead, it paints a compelling portrait of the breakdown of India’s healthcare system.

Poulomi Das March 30, 2016

Sports

Winning the World Cup as Coach Will Be Ravi Shastri’s Greatest Achievement Since Rewriting Our Cricket Vocabulary

Is it even possible to describe a close match without calling it “down to the wire”, or concluding, in the end, that the real winner is cricket? In sports pubs and living rooms across the country, among scotch-swilling 50-somethings and cricket-mad teenagers alike, the language of Ravi Shastri reigns supreme. Let’s hope he puts it to use in some fiery dressing room speeches this World Cup.

Kahini Iyer March 20, 2016

Pop Culture

BoJack Horseman Does What The Simpsons Can’t

A cartoon featuring a horse person is a better illustration of the millennial situation than most live-action and other shows with regular humans.

Dushyant Shekhawat March 19, 2016

Pop Culture

Couch, Meet Potato: Where Can You Find 2018’s Biggest Emmy-Winning Shows?

Discovering new shows is the millennial equivalent of a day at Disneyland. What’s better than discovering that most of this year’s Emmy-winning shows are already sitting on your Hotstar Premium account, just waiting for some love?

Simran Kapoor March 18, 2016