Sharanya Sarkar

Absolutely heart wrenching. Touched me to my absolute core. Best watch of 2023. Loved how this movie not only talks about past lives in the sense of reincarnation, but the fact that every immigrant has a past life pre-immigration. The fact that Nora still dreamed and sleep talked in her native tongue after all those years in the US just added a different dimension to the movie. Hits too close to reality.

I don't know honestly what to feel about this. Hauntingly beautiful series, that keeps me thinking about it from time to time. Haven't seen a series as bittersweet as this one. The episodes like Free Churro, View from Halfway Down are something else. The more I think about them, the more heartbroken I feel. Spoiler alert ahead, so don't keep reading if you haven't watched it yet. I keep on wondering how everyone surrounding Bojack, moved on with their respective lives, and Bojack was set to live the rest of it on his own. Maybe he had been a bad guy all along, maybe he didn't know he won't be wanted one day like he's been wanted and loved by others (PC, Wanda) all his life. I also keep on thinking - did Bojack ever truly love anyone? Was it Diane? Wonder why he called her when he was dying. All in all, this show is something that's gonna stir the nihilism inside you, cuz maybe there's no other side, there's no deep down, and maybe it really doesn't get easier.

Walter White would probably rank as my favorite fictional character ever. Badfinger's baby blue outro beautifully tells us how Walt had finally met his fate. Indeed, he got what he deserved, but was that always true? All his life, he had deserved better things, and the fact that he had settled for less had made him attain this extremity when he finally learnt the art of being powerful. Make life unfair to a genius like Walter White, and the result is almost always never good. All in all, breaking bad isn't just about cooking meth, it's about the complexity of the human nature, and how nothing in the world is absolutely good or absolutely bad. Jesse Pinkman was my second favorite, absolutely adorable. So much so that, I fell in love with Aaron Paul irl. Peekaboo!