The first season of the series Afsos comes off as a little too desperate in its attempts to be a clever, absurdist and sharp black comedy. You get a feeling that this could have been a truly great show, if it weren’t trying so hard, only to end up as mediocre at best.Afsos Season 1 Download.
A failed lover, a failed writer, a failed son and brother, and a failed attempter of suicide – there’s really nothing that Nakul (Gulshan Devaiah) can do right.He’s even failed at finding himself a decent therapist, it seems, in the first episode. Because whatever Shloka (Anjali Patil) is doing certainly doesn’t seem to be helping. Her idea of therapy is shouting “You can do it!” and “Don’t quit now!” like a football coach at patients, or heckling them for not having the balls to commit suicide, and then handing them a Swiss knife to cut their veins with. ‘Is it the character that’s incompetent, or the actor/writing?’, you wonder, feeling worse and worse still for poor Nakul.
Eventually, Shloka’s relentless taunts drive Nakul to hand over the job of killing himself to the professionals, i.e. The Emergency Exit Agency. Maria (the hilarious Ratnabali Bhattacharjee) is the brains behind the ‘suicide assistance’ operation, run from a van with the words Fargo printed all over it (a tribute to the Coen Brothers, you see), and Vikram (Ujjwal Chopra) the muscle. However, you can tell the latter’s getting sick of pushing wannabe suicide-committers of a cliff. He’s having existential doubts, along the lines of whether he’s even a hitman anymore, and whether what he does is even murder, but Maria has no time for this, as she has big ambitions. Besides, her only other employee Upadhyay (Heeba Shah) is a much bigger problem, as Nakul is soon to find out.