Good Girl Bad Girl web series review: A tawdry ‘Fleabag’ knockoff
Good Woman Unhealthy Woman goals to offend and succeeds – however not in the best way it intends to.
The “lady” of the title is definitely a sexually adventurous and unapologetically irreverent lady who additionally occurs to be a ordinary liar. Maya, a direct descendant of the heroines of the tv exhibits Ladies and Fleabag, deploys her mind and physique at will to get forward.
Maya (Samridhi Dewan) has been reaping the advantages of fibbing proper from her childhood. Her versatile strategy to veracity accompanies her by her eventful adolescence and saves her from being fired from the lawyer’s agency the place she hopes to grow to be a associate.
A lump in her breast results in the chance that Maya may need most cancers. Earlier than her analyzing physician Punit (Soham Majumdar) can affirm the outcomes, Maya declares that she is contaminated and is subsequently worthy of preferential therapy.
The falsehood prevents Maya’s boss Zaina (Gul Panag) from sacking her and checkmates Maya’s colleague Sahil (Vaibhav Raj Gupta), who hates her guts. An on-off relationship with the manbun-sporting Prithvi (Zain Khan) turns into extra on than off.
A parallel profession as a social media influencer beckons. Maya’s dad and mom (Rajendra Sethi and Sheeba Chadha), from whom she has been estranged, seem like coming round too.
The sequence is predicated on an idea by Vikas Bahl, who’s on the comeback path after allegations of sexual harassment. Bahl and Chaitally Parmar additionally function showrunners. Abhishek Sengupta directs 9 episodes written by Tahira Nath and Nikhil Arora which might be seething with sympathy-for-the-devil sentiment.
The incessantly coarse dialogue matches the tawdry conditions through which Maya finds herself ever so typically. The bar is commonly as little as the degrees to which Maya stoops to seize what she believes she deserves.
Maya’s use of her femininity as a weapon stymies any claims the present would possibly make to being feminist. Her inappropriate touchy-feely relationship together with her physician, her seductive methods when she’s in a jam, and her doubtful recommendation to a colleague in a difficult state of affairs counsel that girls who pretend it most definitely make it.
Good Woman Unhealthy Woman reaches its nadir early with slow-motion photographs of girls jogging. For good measure, there’s a bra-sniffing neighbour and a girl who has given her mammaries matching names. By the point Maya has met precise breast most cancers survivors, the present’s claims of being delicate in the direction of this emotionally damaging and probably life-threatening ailment ring as hole as one among Maya’s fibs.
Samridhi Dewan’s relentless and finally tiresome wickedness is counterbalanced by Soham Majumdar’s welcome restraint. As Maya’s dad and mom, Rajendra Sethi and Sheeba Chadha are fashions of relatable heat.
The sequence ends on a cliffhanger. Nevertheless it’s clear that it might probably solely go down from there.
