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Akhil Arora

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Biography:

Akhil Arora interviews the likes of Christian Bale and Anurag Kashyap, covers series premieres and service launches across the world, and looks at blockbusters and independent dramas from a global socio-political and feminist perspective. As a Rotten Tomatoes-certified film critic, Akhil has reviewed over 150 movies and TV shows in over half a decade.

Reviews

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Agatha All Along: Season 1 (2024) 84% EDIT “It’s nowhere near as engaging [as …] WandaVision. [… Jac] Schaeffer did wonderfully with “sitcom as a coping mechanism for grief” but this is a whole new ballgame. And she can’t catch lightning in a bottle again.” – AkhilArora.com Sep 19, 2024 Full Review The Penguin: Season 1 (2024) 95% EDIT “Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti are a hoot in The Batman spin-off series on HBO that knows how to craft mood and scenes. It’s more often than stellar.” – AkhilArora.com Sep 13, 2024 Full Review Call Me Bae: Season 1 (2024) 64% EDIT “Vapid, humourless and an absurd fantasy, you can tell Call Me Bae is written by people whose engagement with journalism starts with Instagram and ends with TV news.” – AkhilArora.com Sep 6, 2024 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Season 2, Episode 3 (2024) EDIT “The people who did the scheming in Game of Thrones were a lot more insidious and their plots would be built up over the course of a season. Here, we go from Pharazôn and Co. first talking about it to executing it in the same episode.” – AkhilArora.com Aug 31, 2024 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Season 2, Episode 2 (2024) EDIT “In episode 2, Sauron hangs around at the door and characters shout lore at you instead of talking like people.” – AkhilArora.com Aug 31, 2024 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Season 2, Episode 1 (2024) EDIT “Episode 1 gives us even more Sauron backstory and wastes the opening hour on some thunderingly boring series of events.” – AkhilArora.com Aug 31, 2024 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Season 2 (2024) 84% EDIT “Most scenes are unable to make you connect or draw you into the hearts and minds of those who inhabit this version of Middle-earth. The Rings of Power season 2 … is riddled with bad dialogue. And that frequently ends up dooming it.” – AkhilArora.com Aug 28, 2024 Full Review Pachinko: Season 2 (2024) 97% EDIT “It cannot always match the bittersweet intimacy of its quiet moments with the handling and shepherding of its bigger picture that’s increasingly required. […] But even when it’s second best, Pachinko is head and shoulders above anything on TV right now.” – AkhilArora.com Aug 22, 2024 Full Review Shekhar Home: Season 1 (2024) 71% EDIT “It’s crying out for a steadier hand and more of a deft touch. What we get instead is amateurish work coupled with ineffective writing. Even with the inbuilt power of Doyle’s short stories, Shekhar Home ends up as an instantly forgettable adaptation.” – AkhilArora.com Aug 22, 2024 Full Review House of the Dragon: Season 2 (2024) 84% EDIT “Across eight slow-moving episodes—which had their share of awe-inducing sights, lacklustre character arcs, and heartfelt conversations—season 2 showed wars can be won and lost in more ways than one.” – AkhilArora.com Aug 5, 2024 Full Review Time Bandits: Season 1 (2024) 75% EDIT “The final shot of the final episode leaves deliberate room for a second season. But its formula has been wrung out so quickly that Time Bandits is already crying out for something new and fresh.” – AkhilArora.com Jul 24, 2024 Full Review Mirzapur: Season 3 (2024) 22% EDIT “Afraid of evolving, the overlong third season of Mirzapur doesn’t know how to best utilise its principal characters, let alone the giant ensemble at its disposal.” – AkhilArora.com Jul 5, 2024 Full Review Kota Factory: Season 3 (2024) EDIT “Like a forlorn Jeetu Bhaiya, the Netflix series stumbles its way through a befuddling (potential) final season.” – AkhilArora.com Jun 20, 2024 Full Review The Boys: Season 4 (2024) 93% EDIT “In its current maddening state, watching The Boys is like being forever online. It is Elon Musk’s Twitter feed (or that disastrous single-letter rebrand he opted for) come to life.” – AkhilArora.com Jun 11, 2024 Full Review Star Wars: The Acolyte: Season 1 (2024) 79% EDIT “The new Star Wars series benefits from its distinctive action choreography but it’s undone by its storytelling.” – AkhilArora.com Jun 4, 2024 Full Review Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story: Season 1, Episode 6 (2023) EDIT “It might have been the series finale for Their Majesties but the episode’s strongest moment, for me, was between Princess Augusta and Lady Danbury.” – AkhilArora.com May 17, 2024 Full Review Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story: Season 1, Episode 5 (2023) EDIT “What makes the episode a joy is that in the loneliness of these women, Queen Charlotte tackles very straightforwardly what Bridgerton never touches upon: the desires of mature women.” – AkhilArora.com May 17, 2024 Full Review Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story: Season 1, Episode 4 (2023) EDIT “The King George episode of the Queen Charlotte series shifts how you view what the show has been until now. It’s very well done.” – AkhilArora.com May 17, 2024 Full Review Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story: Season 1, Episode 3 (2023) EDIT “The episode cemented that this was a very different show from Bridgerton (which is usually light, fluffy, and full of gossip).” – AkhilArora.com May 17, 2024 Full Review Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story: Season 1, Episode 2 (2023) EDIT “The racism is apparent amongst Augusta and the advisors as they discuss handing out titles to those “who look like Queen Charlotte” as part of The Great Experiment.” – AkhilArora.com May 17, 2024 Full Review Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story: Season 1, Episode 1 (2023) EDIT “A young Charlotte goes through a whirlwind of emotions and a rollercoaster journey in the series premiere.” – AkhilArora.com May 17, 2024 Full Review Bridgerton: Season 2, Episode 8 (2022) EDIT “After a dance that’s sure to raise the heartbeat—it’s very well done, mind you, especially the build-up to it with the classical rendition of the song—Anthony bares his heart and Kate finally gives in.” – AkhilArora.com May 17, 2024 Full Review Bridgerton: Season 2, Episode 7 (2022) EDIT “The contrived and melodramatic ending—Kate Sharma falling off her horse to her potential death—is a further knack on what feels like a placeholder episode between the season’s strongest flourish and the season finale.” – AkhilArora.com May 17, 2024 Full Review Bridgerton: Season 2, Episode 6 (2022) EDIT “The wedding-that-never-was episode is full of really good conversations. […] Top marks!” – AkhilArora.com May 17, 2024 Full Review Bridgerton: Season 2, Episode 5 (2022) EDIT “A heated argument descends into passion, but both [Kate and Anthony] do their utmost to keep apart. The scene is quite well handled—you can feel the intensity, the heat of the moment through the screen.” – AkhilArora.com May 17, 2024 Full Review
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