Indian Matchmaking

This show is well done. It pulls the curtain off and shows India's elite for what they are.

In fact, it is a very white washed show and the warts are all hidden. There is no talk of dowry, honour killings, inter-caste marital trouble and a lot else.

In a way, Indian Matchmaking was needed to show Netflix woke peeps just how medieval our thinking is. All the affectations notwithstanding, marriage boils down to your partner being from a "good family" (Code for caste) or "fair-skinned" or "not from a small town" even if we serve "Miso Paneer" or have been to the "Bolivian salt flats". It might seem weird initially, but it's actually just so telling how so many millenials and NRIs, many who carry a chip on their shoulders, are the worst perpetrators of some of these crazy values.

The fact that so many people cringed watching it only proves how real those people felt to us. How familiar the settings, the relations, the pandits were. And how real an aunty Sima Aunty was. The appeal lies in the fact that whether you laugh or scream it's difficult to deny that the whole thing has a wallop of truth to it.

It shows you that those people are not a small segment of society. This is still Us in 2020.

I enjoyed the entertainment quotient of the show. Just that the last episode ended too abruptly after taking us through the lives of so many bachelors. If there is another season(that will be nice!) it will be great to bring in a different matchmaker than Sima to bring in a different flavour.

Surely they realise Pradhyuman is gay! OMG everything about him screams gay. the lady lawyer is clearly not looking for a partner she needs a dog. She is completely intractable and despite being smart cannot see what her character flaws are. Admire her ambition but she will end up alone. Interesting concept for a westerner but this is not really match making anymore as people can do more or what they like.

While it is fun to watch, most of the women are flakes; incredibly full of themselves. Nadia is all about Nadia and she sends conflicting signals and flirts with everyone. She prattles on about men and finding a husband like she's 13, and quite a number of them do that. It's not attractive to see a grown woman acting like she's 13 and just discovered boys. Pathetic really, very emotionally immature.

Aparna is another one; rude and lacking in social skills. Also, very self absorbed. She couldn't even be polite to the real estate agent. Yikes.

These women have put themselves so high up on their own pedestals, no one can reach them. It's no wonder they cannot sustain a relationship.

There are some genuinely nice women, but overall the women are single for a reason. No, I'm not being sexist, as I'm a modern, self reliant and independent woman, but they don't need husbands - they have themselves and no one can compete with that.

I came into this with some bias against arranged marriage. But this show changed my perspective. Arranged dating and committing does sound refreshing and rare in this casual dating era. The people all seem quite reasonable (except that picky guy really irritated me). The stories are light hearted but watchable. Some stories are really sweet and fill you with hope. I do wish that there's more follow up with each character instead of just jumping from new person to new person.