Harini Calamur's Writings
Start Trek Picard on Amazon Prime, is a move away from the earlier cheery Pollyanna takes of the future put forward by the Star Trek universe. The world in Star Trek Picard is definitely more dystopian than the ones we have seen…
This is the second time I watched Sherlock, and I enjoyed the ‘watching at one go’ experience far more than watching it as separates. My at one go is not binge watching. I watched the 4 seasons and 12 episodes in about…
As i took 3 weeks to finish watching Sacred Games on Netflix, i wasn’t quite sure if I was savouring it, or meandering through it. Sacred Games, based on Vikram Chandra’s book by the same name, is a story of two different…
writer and film maker, Anand Sivakumaran offers us a serialised podcast – Chance pe Dance. This is story telling at it’s most ancient form, by a storyteller. Chance pe Dance, is the breezy thriller about Varun, a young gambler, who gets tomorrows…
Collateral on Netflix, is a taut tight thriller, that is at the intersection of three organisations linked to the murder of a pizza delivery boy in London. it is based around the frissions between important people in , what Marx would term,…
The Expanse , on Netflix India, is a science fiction series, set 200 years in the future. And, it is a dystopian future. Earth, in this period has colonised and settled Mars. Mars has fought and won independence from Earth. And there is tension…
David Fincher’s series Mindhunter, that released on Netflix a couple of weeks ago, is an atmospheric period piece on a subject that is very popular on American TV and film – serial killers, and the people who hunt them – the FBI…