After the well-crafted cliffhanger of the first season, I had to binge-watch the remainder of the series. I stayed up an entire night watching Sacred Games. Remember the questions I mentioned in the review of season 1 that go unanswered? By the second series, they still remain unanswered and get more complicated.
Comparing the story development to a nuclear reaction was spot on. In the 2nd series, it feels like the reaction has been stimulated without a limiter. The sense of urgency and impending doom is beautifully placed in your subconscious with swiftly developing leads and fast-paced storytelling.
Among the many things that I loved in the series, one is how deeply you are connected with both sides. Evil and good. You are deeply intertwined with the lives of the protagonists, antagonists, and even the "NPCs". You get to see in whose story is the bad guy an actual angel, and in whose story is the good guy a devil.
It creates an interesting dynamic where the audience is left to decide who the real good and bad guy is. But it never is that easy. Not until the very end of the series.
My favorite tangent is the growing tensions between the bigger gangs of India. The tensions are backed by the religious wars within India which are encouraged due to political agendas and power exchange. It is a tangent that exposes the darker side of politics, religion, brainwashing, and starts at as high of a level as the parliament and has an impact at as low as the schoolgoing kid in the slums.
As you can imagine, none of this is served in a silver platter. You need to pay attention to the dialogues and put two and two together over the course of 7-8 episodes to really put it all together. Throughout the series, we also see repeating patterns. One of the more obvious ones is the involvement of RAW, an anti-terrorist agency, with the terrorists firsthand.
Throughout the series, we are learning about the main characters' truth about their past, present, and families through their perspective. The blurred lines between who truly is evil and good still remain blurred.
I do believe that the 2nd series had way too much happening to pack into just 8 episodes. Or that is what I thought initially. Only after the series was over did I realize the genius of it.
The episodes were beautifully designed to stretch and prolong the seemingly "unimportant" bits and rush through the "important" bits.
It seemed as if the unimportant tangents were given the entirety of an episode, whereas multiple important developments were packed and rushed through a few minutes in an episode. Only later did I realize it created an incredible sense of frustration, emergency, and suspense. Something that each of the characters was feeling.
I hate the ending though. It is very clearly not a win for the good party. The ending is very unsatisfying. It is not a happy ending. Or maybe it is. It leaves so much open to interpretation. It begs the viewers to concoct theories and endings. It prompts the audience to imagine what would life be like if the obvious ending was to be considered, and if a miracle was to be considered. In that case, I couldn't have asked for a better ending.
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This is interesting even from the detail you wrote about the series 1. I will like to take a look at it as well.
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" I hate the ending though. It is very clearly not a win for the good party. The ending is very unsatisfying. It is not a happy ending. Or maybe it is. It leaves so much open to interpretation. It begs the viewers to concoct theories and endings. It prompts the audience to imagine what would life be like if the obvious ending was to be considered, and if a miracle was to be considered. In that case, I couldn't have asked for a better ending. "
I share the same sentiment too..