Watching this series, I learned a new term, ‘limited-series.’ You see, we had two distinctions with stories on the screen, to begin with. One was at a three-hour-long format called the Movie. When stories were ‘too long to fit in a movie format, we had the serial — Typically, thirteen or twenty-six half-hour episodes telecasted …
The first memory that the trailer of ‘The Disciple’ evoked was ‘Whiplash.’ I thought the movie is a rehash for an Indianized version. But the brand of Chaitanya Tamhane (Court, 2014) was enough for giving it a try. Some parallels do exist. The Guruji of ‘The Disciple’ is a hard taskmaster like Fletcher (Whiplash). Both …
Binge watching needs a separate category now and series should be ranked in terms of their ‘Binge watchable ness’. This is because binge watching exposes certain facets of a series especially when it comes to ‘fast forward’ parts. I go for binge watching series only when their run is completed, I began with first season …