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                          (Series Review) "Untamed" (2025) - Miniseries Morality is a many-sided compass. When people say “moral compass”, we are, in fact, way off the mark. It assumes that there is only one moral north and south. Though it may sound controversial, I firmly believe that morality is almost always a relative notion. It has a lot to do with the priorities in one’s life. Even the judicial processes fall short frequently while dishing out justice. The system often ends up being a mere frame of reference. It simply is incapable of covering the vast gamut of human depravities. It is scary being reminded of what crimes human beings as a race is capable of committing and to what extent the people at the receiving end can go to ensure that justice is served, even if it is outside of the established institutions. Untamed is a limited series on Netflix, written by Mark L. Smith. Smith is known for writing the screenp...

                               (Series Review) “Ransom Canyon” (2025) - Season 1 I am writing this piece with a truckload of guilt weighing in on my heart, and not for the reason you think. I was supposed to get back to my research paper today after a two-week long break. I simply couldn’t focus. I know it is a lame excuse. I started watching " Ransom Canyon " yesterday evening and by mid-noon today, I finished watching all ten episodes of it. I was watching an interview of Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly (the lead pair), where the interviewer was telling them how the viewers were comparing the show to a cross between “ Yellowstone ” and “ Virgin River ”. It is indeed an astute observation. That’s definitely one way to describe the show. I have not really watched many Westerns, lets alone Romantic Westerns.  But I have had enough exposure to know what to expect in general when the term “western” pops up in...

(Series Review) “ The Pit ” (2025) - Season 1 I used to be an aspiring medical student at one point of time in my life. I am not even sure if that is a thing, but I still experience this pull I can’t shake for anything remotely close to medicine and doctors. I do realize it a place frequented by the sick and the infirm, where pain and loss creates a miasma of despair all over the place. Having said that, it also the place where one is relieved of pain and misery, where the initiated perform their magic on human physiology and wins us more days on this planet. I guess it is all a matter of perspectives. I feel reassured and safe when I am in a hospital and I tend to look at the bright side of the place. There is this inherent respect I feel for these warriors, not for their station life, rather for their raw spine of resolve and their willingness to pursue a career that is slowly turning into a life hazard owing to the excessive and unwarranted violence directed against them on a daily ...