Netflix
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Dhurandhar, Netflix and the India-Pakistan Asymmetry
The post asks why Netflix serves India so much more than Pakistan, as Pakistani viewers complain about promotion of Dhurandhar: The Revenge. It answers with market size, Indian users far…
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Dhurandhar crashes Netflix servers in Pakistan: Trending # 1
A short note on reports that Dhurandhar 2 is trending first on Netflix Pakistan despite a theatre ban, which the poster takes as a sign it is doing well there…
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India-Pakistan pop culture and future trends
The author argues that discussions of India-Pakistan pop culture miss the rise of Indian streaming platforms, whose shorter, less censored and more experimental shows now supply more memes than films…
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Kohrra Season 2: Review
Bombay Badshah gives a spoiler-free recommendation of Kohrra season 2 on Netflix, calling it twistier and more technically accomplished than the first. He praises the cinematography, acting and multilingual dialogue,…
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Indian Matchmaking
Razib Khan, on the Indian Matchmaking show, says he takes such shows as anthropology rather than how the world should be, and that older age has softened his opposition to…
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Never Have I Ever
Razib Khan calls Netflix’s Never Have I Ever pretty good and not really political, praising its realistic Southern California setting and the diverse non-Indian love interests that avoid the assumption…
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Daughters of Destiny
Recommends the four-part Netflix series Daughters of Destiny, about a school founded by an Indian-American millionaire for Dalit girls in India.
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Watching Shtisel.. (and Turkish TV)
The author welcomes the availability of foreign series on Netflix, discussing the Israeli drama Shtisel and the Turkish series Yunus Emre and Ertugrul. He argues that Turkish productions have high…
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When myth becomes reality
After watching Netflix’s Arjun: The Warrior Prince, the author compares the Mahabharata to the Iliad as a layered text blending periods, and notes that recent genetics likely confirms steppe agro-pastoralists…
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Rajneesh and Sheela Ambalal Patel,
Sbarrkum asks for thoughts on the Netflix series Wild Wild Country, about the Rajneeshee movement in 1980s Oregon, and notes that the real villain is Rajneesh’s secretary Ma Anand Sheela.
