Quark is a damn good guy at heart, while Rittenhouse… #smh.
Still, thank the gods. Shimerman is delicious to watch.

Agreed. At the least, it's captured and held my attention throughout the first half of the first season. No mean feat because I have not watched a network show in DECADES.

Or Keanu Reaves as an Indian prince.

Yep. And remember Freddie *can* still name him as an accomplice to the crime they committed together.

that'd be a soap opera but I'd watch it.

Were the men any better? Save for Stone and Naz's dad, pretty much every man in the show was either a criminal, a heartless cynic, a drug addict…. yada yada yada. No one there would get out alive… in a just world.

Just to give you some context — when the British decided to divide the subcontinent into India and West and East Pakistan (which later became Bangladesh), there was a referendum in which 95% of the subcontinent's Muslims voted for Pakistan to be created. Guess how many Muslims actually went over? Only around 5%.

She was definitely well-acted. In terms of the writing, I don't have a problem with her downfall (it happens often IRL), but I do have an issue with HOW they wrote it.

Perhaps because he exchanged one kind of confinement for another?

Thanks zendoggie for the response (and the corrected name). I actually began to search for Criminal Law last night and found the 1988 Gary Oldman movie ;)

why would you think that?

I didn't get that as much as I did her feelings of sympathy and empathy for a fellow South Asian. As a fellow South Asian myself, I've seen this happen one too many times here in the USA, and my cousins in the UK have told me the same thing. I didn't get much, if any, sexual attraction on her side, but I did get those…

Actually, they CAN and DO make for excellent television and movies and books…. I still feel Chandra's character and ignominy the most in this story. I keep thinking of her… and it's not just because of Karan's magnificent performance, but also the character's journey. I would never call what happened to Chandra and…

Sometimes this sexism IS taken too far, though, even though I get what you're saying here. It seems to me as if these days we simply CANNOT have a less-than-perfect female character who depicts many, MANY women in real life. It's a sad state of affairs if that is so.

It was an "I'm on your side" kiss. And she realized the horrific visual of it as soon as she did it.

Beautifully put. I totally agree with you. And, yes, Amara Karan made Chandra very, very watchable. A magnificent train wreck that I couldn't turn away from even if I tried.

where'd you bingewatch it? It's not on Netflix, right?

It's not about race. It's about feeling like foreigners in a foreign land who have pretty much the same culture, eat the same sort of food, speak (most of the time) the same language, watch the same movies (as far as Bollywood is concerned), have the same feelings about "conservative parents who want you not to marry…

I am Indian-American and I live in the USA. I've got Pakistani-American friends who live here, as well. My best friend is a second generation Pakistani-American. I like them, love some of them. I think of them as fellow South Asians. And, yes, we are mostly the same race (to answer your question).

I hated her character's ignominy and downfall but loved the actor. She carried it well.