Originally posted by: quickspicysauce
I don’t know- I mean to be very fair- I know that we all have heavily criticized the writers and such, but whatever they did, it’s not actually new to ITV. So many ancient relic shows running for years have not only given audiences crap that is much worse but have even been PREMISED on problematic elements but they have been able to garner TRP because faster pace and high voltage drama at every alternative episode. At least this show was premised on a positive element but sucked big time executing it and sadly fell for relying on ITV tropes
What really is putting the show in danger is the slow execution and failure to capitalize on resources. Even when the Kajol Arjun wedding was there it took so many weeks and so much patience before we finally got around to seeing Kajol breaking the wedding off and until then we were fed dowry negativity
And yeah like you this is one of the few ITV shows I’ve watched properly (Dahleez before this, highly recommended- a very crisply done finite show where Harshad Arora was in top form with a very excellent Tridha Choudhury but sadly that show never got more than 1.0 trp I think despite being superb in all departments- writing acting technical finesse etc)
just to give some silver lining to all however- even if this show goes off air here are the good parts:
1. We’ll see ID soon in Drishyam 2, and her character in this movie is one that is dealing with PTSD from the events in Drishyam 1, and I’m excited to see how she’ll pull this off
2. Karan: I watched bits of meri hanikarak biwi, really liked his performance and chemistry with FL. Whilst this show may be off air soon I feel like because Anurag was so hyped up by the show (and because he has performed up to the hype) this should be a really good break for him/give good mileage and I hope he does a good show in a more encouraging channel, or, going by his past career choices (MHB was quite offbeat) maybe OTT would be great
3. Harshad: the sooner he is out of this show the better for him. He deserved much better than this because when he first entered he entered as the negative ML and now we hardly see him, he gets very little screen time. Would love to see him as a lead
Will be a long post once I include others from the cast, maybe will type it out another time