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Deli Boys (2025 - ) S01E03 "Delhi Boys"

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Lucky, you are by far the best character on Deli Boys

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Disney Upfronts : cast of the Bear and Deli boys portrait

Worlds colliding!

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Poorna Jagannathan for Elle India (ph: Mili Ghosh)

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I'm two episodes into Deli Boys and Lucky can do no wrong

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Wolfs

directed by Jon Watts, 2024

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Tiny Review: Wolfs 2024. Charismatic Enemies To Friends. MUST WATCH!

I enjoyed this from start to end. Gripping, mystery start. Charming protagonists. Familiar, well-written tropes. Good tension. Good worldbuilding. Good payoffs. Good ending. Brad Pitt and George Clooney are great cherries on the cake. Has the makings of a John Wick-esqe success, though it’s not John Wick, of cos. Very entertaining. MUST WATCH!

I kinda wish there will be more. The Kid turned out to be very likable and was seemingly set up to be a professional himself.

Wolfs is a 2024 American action comedy film written and directed by Jon Watts. The film stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams, and Poorna Jagannathan

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Poorna Jagannathan

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Deli Boys (prod. Abdullah Saeed).

It's refreshing to see an explicitly Pakistani-American exploration of the darker side of family obligations and organized crime, centred as an out-and-out comedy despite the frequent bursts of bloody violence and seedy subject matter. Asif Ali and Saagar Shaikh star as sheltered rich kid brothers forced to take over their millionaire father's secret drug empire disguised as a chain of corner stores. Most of the fun comes from watching these two bumble their way through various mafia dealings and narrowly escape death for every wrong move they make.

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Nicholas Galitzine and Poorna Jagannathan at the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party - March 10, 2024 x

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Poorna Jagannathan at the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party

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My dad just asked me why I want to get married or have a boyfriend if I don't want sex or kids. And he made it sound like I'd never find anyone who is on the same page as me. And it's genuinely scary. The truth is, while I'd greatly prefer being alone forever rather than forcing myself to have sex, I really, really don't want to end up alone (I mean romantically). I genuinely do want to be in a romantic relationship, and it's hard to have hope when your own parent thinks that you can't find someone who will accept you the way you are. I need a Nalini Vishwakumar to tell me that I'm always enough. But would Nalini have even said that to Devi if she had come out as asexual? I don't know why I connected this to Never Have I Ever. But I just need hope, I guess.

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There is a universe where Fatin and Devi are sisters (the same actress plays both their moms) and I wanna live there. Never Have I Ever meets The Wilds

Oh nothing, just two girls and their mom having a moment

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Teevee shows:

ANIMAL KINGDOM (2016–2022): Dour U.S. TV adaptation of the 2010 Australian film about teenager J Cody (Finn Cole, flat and frosty), whose mother's overdose death sends him to live with his grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody (Ellen Barkin), and his four uncles, Baz (Scott Speedman), Deran (Jake Weary), Craig (Ben Robson), and Pope (Shawn Hatosy), career criminals who are all trapped in various stages of arrested adolescence under Smurf's manipulative thumb. Drawn into their criminal enterprise, J quickly reveals himself as the biggest scumbag of the lot. A slickly produced, violent soap opera, it's hampered throughout by the lack of a strong POV: Shrimp is fascinating, both in the present-day sequences and in flashbacks to her younger days (played by Leila George), but the narrative always keeps her at arm's length, and Barkin's departure after Season 4 really hurts. J is thoroughly unsympathetic even at the outset, a sneering misogynist creep, and his rapid ascent from neophyte accomplice to master heist guy is never convincing; I ended up desperately wishing they'd kill him off, and Cole's lifeless performance is the show's weakest link. The uncles' macho bullshit gets tiresome, and I was put off by the attempts to engender sympathy for the brutal Pope using Baz's adorable daughter as a prop. The female cast is consistently more interesting than the men (especially the underutilized Dichen Lachman), but the women are always treated as secondary, and often disposable. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Smurf briefly hooks up with a female photographer in Season 1. VERDICT: Glossy production and Barkin's charismatic performance prop up an uneven, unsatisfying series that's never as exciting as it seems like it should be. CWs for recurring incest themes, and there are multiple plotlines about adults having sexual relationships with teenagers.

BET (2025- ): Astonishingly grating Simon Barry adaptation of the Homura Kawamoto/Tôru Naomura manga KAKEGURUI: COMPULSIVE GAMBLER, about a teenage gambler named Yumeko (Miku Martineau), who enrolls in a posh private school called St. Dominic's — where the students gamble on everything, all the time — on a mission to avenge the murders of her parents. The manga seems like a lot of fun, but Barry can't ever find the right tone, making the show abrasive, shrill, racist, and homophobic — he treats the Black characters like punching bags and litters the story with startlingly offensive hate-crime-grade gay guys (costar Ryan Sutherland should be on a watch list). It's not until the last two episodes, where Yumeko squares off against ruthless student council president Kira (Clara Alexandrova) that BET briefly becomes actually entertaining rather than just obnoxious, although it's hard to know what to make of Martineau's very weird lead performance. CONTAINS LESBIANS? A few, including Kira's always-masked half-sister Riri (Anwen O'Driscoll), who speaks only in whispers. VERDICT: Like SCOTT PILGRIM if it had been obsessed with gambling rather than video games, and I don't mean that as a compliment.

DELI BOYS (2025- ): Enthusiastically silly black comedy, created by Abdullah Saeed, about 20something dipshits Raj Dar (Saagar Shaikh) and Mir Dar (Asif Ali), the spoiled idiot sons of a wealthy Philadelphia convenience store tycoon (Iqbal Theba), who learn that their late father's self-made business empire was actually a front for a vast criminal enterprise ("Dark DarCo") — of which their Lucky Auntie (Poorna Jagannathan, magnificent) and Ahmad Uncle (Brian George) now expect them to be the new figureheads. Extremely funny in the first half, but it loses steam after Episode 7, with a shortfall of coherent story direction that unfortunately coincides with a let-up in the writers' supply of really good jokes (and their curious failure to take full advantage of some of their own funnier ideas). I also wasn't comfortable with the later episodes' treatment of Prairie (Alfie Fuller), Raj's Black hippie shaman girlfriend. CONTAINS LESBIANS? No. VERDICT: Often fun, with Jagannathan and Shaikh the highlights, but feels too unfocused once things get moving.

DUSTER (2025- ): Disarmingly genial HBO Max retro action fluff, created by J.J. Abrams and LaToya Morgan and set in 1972, about Phoenix-area driver/bagman Jim Ellis (Josh Holloway) and new FBI agent Nina Hayes (Rachel Hilson), who convinces Jim to help her bring down Jim's gangster boss, Ezra Saxton (Keith David), who killed Nina's father and Jim's brother. The story is dumb (it's named after a car!), it's sometimes unexpectedly bloody, and a lot of subplots don't really go anywhere, but its easygoing mood is endearing, as are its leads: Nina is adorable, and Jim is easy to like because he's got nothing to prove. (Even his relationship with his baby mama Izzy (Camille Quaty), whose daughter Luna (Adriana Aluna Martinez) doesn't know Jim is really her father, is surprisingly relaxed.) CONTAINS LESBIANS? Ezra's daughter Genesis (Sydney Elisabeth) is gay, and at one point gets Jim to help rescue her ex-girlfriend from marrying a dirtbag. VERDICT: Doesn't add up to much, but it's a pleasant way to pass the time.

THE ENEMY WITHIN (2019): Brisk but very stupid espionage procedural about the uneasy alliance between FBI agent Will Keaton (Morris Chestnut) and disgraced ex-CIA operations director Erica Shepherd (Jennifer Carpenter), imprisoned for Betraying Her Country™ and causing the deaths of four American operatives, one of them Will's fiancée. Never credible for a second, but Carpenter is great — I could watch her scowl pensively all day, and Erica's ruthless intensity remains interesting despite the story's curious determination to undercut the moral ambiguity of her position. The scripts are endlessly contrived and laughably dopey, although they're SO dumb that they do kind of take the mickey out of the bonkers right-wing paranoia of the premise. CONTAINS LESBIANS? No. VERDICT: Complete nonsense buoyed to a surprising extent by Carpenter's ferocious performance.

GINNY AND GEORGIA (2021– ): Engaging comedy-drama about biracial teenager Ginny Miller (Antonia Gentry), adjusting to a new home and school after a highly unstable childhood with her feisty, deranged white mother Georgia (Brianne Howey as an adult, Nikki Roumel in flashbacks), who had Ginny when she was 15 and has spent most of her life on the run from something. An unusual formula — somewhere between WHITE OLEANDER, played for laughs, and SERIAL MOM, played straight — for what's essentially a pretty good modern teen drama, seasoned with Georgia's snowballing, often criminal chaos. A superb cast and some delightful supporting characters keep the story from toppling into melodrama, but I had mixed feelings about the portrayal of Georgia herself: The show wants to strike a balance between suggesting that she's a plucky single mom doing her best and acknowledging that she can be genuinely dangerous to be around, but it treats some of her crimes awfully lightly, in particular her financial abuse of Ginny's autistic half-brother Austin (Diesel La Torraca). CONTAINS LESBIANS? Ginny's new best friend Maxine (Sara Waisglass) is gay, and another of their friends later has a complicated sexual awakening. VERDICT: Highly watchable, and if you support women's wrongs, you'll probably love Georgia, although IRL victims of her brand of parental abuse may want to tread cautiously. CWs apply for IPV, self-harm, and eating disorders.

MEDUSA (2025- ): Melodramatic, horny, but weirdly lethagic Colombian soap opera about married bisexual 40something tycoon Bárbara Hidalgo (Juana Acosta), suffering partial amnesia after narrowly surviving an explosive assassination attempt, who falls for a hunky police detective (Manolo Cardona) while trying to figure out which of her treacherous family or business associates tried to kill her. Has all the ingredients for trashy fun, but it's much too lazily paced for a thriller, and the story doesn't really know what to do with the gradual revelation that Bárbara herself has been just as much of a scheming villain as any of the people around her. Null points also for the foolish Carl Jung epigraphs and irritating end-credits theme song. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Bárbara is bisexual, and one subplot concerns her relationship with a younger native woman named Eluney (Ángela Rodríguez), whom Bárbara has screwed over rather badly. VERDICT: The energy level is too low for the story to ever catch fire, and the extremely stupid season finale squanders a lot of goodwill.