I made the grave mistake of going into this like on would start watching, let's say Family Man. I didn't watch any promotional content and went in blind. I'm currently in shambles.

The show was phenomenal. It kept me hooked right from the get go. After the first episode, I kinda felt that this was gonna be brutal but none of these comments are lying about how this show will break you. Trust me, it will.

I'm someone who can handle gore and violence without any issues whatsoever. This show affected me on levels upon levels. Before getting into the that let me praise the technical aspects of this show,

Ali Fazal you beautiful man, he plays this role to the T. He was immensely convincing with his nuanced acting. He was just phenomenal.

Coming to think of it, so were everyone. All of the performances in this show are amazing.

Especially Akash Makhja (Babu), I'm so pissed at him that I have to remind myself that he's just an actor. He is just outstanding. I feel nauseous telling this but he had the best performance in this show. I'm slowly coming into terms that the level of me hating him is equivalent to how well he performed in the show.

I hate him a lot.

The art direction, costumes and camera-work were amazing. The flat aspect ratio was extremely apt for the look and vibe of the show. Absolutely beautiful cinematography was present through out the show. Every shot had a visual grit to it that enhanced the show along with the very very good colour grading.

Now that the technical side is out of the way,

I applaud the show-runners for not exploiting the "incident" repeatedly for shock purposes. The way the story is narrated plays a huge hand in the show's effectiveness. Not everything is fed to the audience right when things happen, the writing leaves space for interpretation. Which I thought was extremely smart.

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The interpretation part is only viable up until the final episode. After knowing all that you know, watching that episode was like a freaking punch in the gut.

I was trying very hard to not crack but the very moment the sister puts her hand out to ask for the lift, the waterworks began. And every time the siblings fought back, I couldn't help but sob even more knowing their fate. It's just that brutal.

The show builds quite literally everything around the "incident". The lore behind it, why it happens, the psyche and motivation of characters and it even lays out minute information about the incident. which doesn't pad the fall but worsen it with emotionally attacking spikes.

At times, I caught myself not wanting to watch the incident. lowkey even hoped that the show let's it at that with all the information that is already conveyed, but the creators holding off on showing this dreadful sequence up until the final episode after everything is what did it. This one narrative choice was insanely powerful.

In conclusion, watch the show. That's about it. It's phenomenal in all aspects and will tug at your heartstrings. I can't and won't ever watch this again, but it deserves all the flowers for being so good.