SonyLIV’s Your Honor, remake of a well-regarded Israeli web series, was a solidly crafted show. If not as good, Season 2, densely plotted and deliberately paced, comes commendably close to a rare repeat act. As they did in the first 12 episodes of the story, director E. Niwas and writer Ishan Trivedi keep a tight rein on the drama and the action and do not let the latter swamp out the former. Your Honor Season 2 is a judicious blend of intrigue and intensity.Your Honor Season 1-2 Download.
More of the same can often translate into too much of a good thing. The new 10-episode season – five episodes are out this week, five more will follow next Friday – seeks to ward off the inevitable risk of being repetitive by bringing in a handful of new characters and carving out fresh settings to inject some variety into the tale. The core of Your Honor, of course, remains the same: Judge Bishan Khosla (Jimmy Sheirgill) continues to sink into a bottomless cesspool. His conflict with his conscience, the underworld and the police assumes darker overtones as he battles, his back to wall, on behalf of his troubled son Abeer (Pulkit Makol).
The story, with its modest scale and modulated means of delivery, holds its steady line thanks to the sustained moral complexity at the heart of the drama – it no doubt stems from the structure and substance of the original show. The quality of the acting – subdued rather than demonstrative – is once again impressively consistent with Jimmy Sheirgill in the role of the protagonist who subjugates his principles to his paternal instincts leading the way.The story that centres on attempts to prevent the law from taking its own course is consistently gripping because it leans more towards emotions than flashy action. Your Honor S2, if its first five episodes are reliable pointers, abjures in-your-face methods. The show benefits from the prudently measured delineation of the multiple strands of the judge’s worsening struggles.