Television series
Four More Shots Please!
Four More Shots Please! is a sharp, irreverent comedy-drama about millennial friendship in Mumbai. It's raucous and messy, full of betrayals and reconciliations, nights out and morning-afters. The women at its centre are gloriously unpolished—ambitious, selfish, hilarious, and real. It's for anyone who's ever felt too much and drunk too much trying to figure it out.
Should you watch it?
Watch it if you enjoy comedy built on messy friendships, where the women are vain, reckless and funny in equal measure and the show never tidies them up.
Skip it if the humour leans on bad decisions and loud nights out, so if you need characters to earn your sympathy quickly, its self-absorption may wear thin.
What it asks of you: Episodes run around 35 minutes across four seasons, and it wants loose, easy attention and patience with characters who keep choosing badly rather than sustained suspense.
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Wanderlust2018
Both use comedy and chaos as a vehicle for asking what we owe each other and what we actually want versus what we're supposed to want.
A British miniseries about marriage and desire. Stylish, frank, uncomfortable. Uses comedy to interrogate how little we know the people closest to us—same project as Four More Shots but aimed at coupling and commitment.
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Godless2017
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Character-first comedy with heart. The female friendships feel earned and genuine amid the chaos. Optimistic about human mess in a way Four More Shots also is.
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Both center female friendships as salvation and ruin. Both understand that the people who hurt you most are the ones you can't leave.
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- Rangita Pritish NandyCreator