Season 1 – Betaal

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Luis Miguel V @luismiguel 07/14/2023 Excelente serie India. Un libreto muy original que nos recuerda el periodo de Gran Bretaña sobre la India mezclando una época histórica con la fantasía zombie. See more 04/02/2021 When I first heard about this series I was really excited. It isn't always that you get to see an Indian series that has zombies in them, that too from the British Raj. I got my Netflix connection just to see this (along with some other things of course, but this was the show which made me realise I should get a Netflix subscription). And guess what? This turned out to be the worst show I have ever watched on Netflix. Let's start from the story. It was supposed to be something complicated, something about the CRPF soldiers going in a remote area and clearing the cave which the locals weren't allowing them to do. But they did it anyway, because of which the zombies of the British soldiers who were trapped inside came out. And now they have to hold them back until help arrives. Yeah, that's the entire story. Now of course the clichéd things will happen, like one of them accidentally turning into a zombie, one person who is secretly their enemy trying to sabotage them, and of course, in the end they don't realise a zombie is following them. Now let's talk about the characters. So there's the main guy named Sirohi, who wants to be a good soldier. And that's what he does. This poorly executed character development ends up getting him hypnotised by the British commander zombie. And he takes his orders to kill his own commander. There are other major characters too, but I forgot their names so I'm gonna ignore them. And finally let's talk about the thing which the makers of this show thought we will enjoy because everyone is doing it nowadays - the abuses. Now, I don't have any problem with shows in which people abuse. But their abuses seem so out of place, it's like they were shoehorned into the dialogues. It was like the director said, "Look you HAVE to abuse if you want to show the audience how angry you are!" (imagine this being spoken with full hand expression), but the actors were hesitant to abuse because they knew their mom will watch the show and they will receive a scolding for it. However this show isn't entirely bad. It had a really good cinematography. The visual effects absolutely nailed it. The colour palette and score showed the tone of this show. You know exactly what you want to see when you begin seeing it. But this is not that. It could have done so much but just ended up being like a generic zombie horror media. I hope they try to improve it in the second season, because this way it won't last very long. See more 02/28/2021 Brilliant mix of scp horror and folklore. Indian cinema is doing bits for me! See more 08/09/2020 Amazing series and that fact it uses Indian colonial history with redcoat British zombies is amazing. The girl from the village is strong which shows the cultural changes and the past. See more 07/11/2020 incosistant screenplay and bad acting and content See more 06/29/2020 This os the first zombie thriller series from india and it didn't disappoint me. Its a 4 part series based on 1 night so character development is not in it but it is "FRESH","GRIPPING" but "NOT HORROR" series. See more Read all reviews

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