Little Things S4

Little Things

Starring: Mithila Palkar, Dhruv Sehgal
Streaming on Netflix.

I've always loved this show for how it seamlessly blends two big parts of our 20s - adulting and romance. I'd say the show is more about adulting than about romance. Dhruv feels like he'd be constantly adulting throughout his life. Well, we all do but his character is a good portrayal of that side in all of us. The episode where he realizes he is doing exactly what his dad used to do, I had this thought so many times and I thought it was a very personal thought - but it's great to see art doing its job - telling us that we're not the only ones. Kavya's back pain is a beautiful way to explore how things could change as we grow up, the inevitability of time, and sometimes how no matter what you do, some things are not in your control. I think that's the reason you believe in free will when you are young, and when slowly life starts happening to you, you realize that maybe everything is not in your control and maturing is realizing that, that's completely okay.

The show touches on so many beautiful ideas about life - the episode where they talk about how it needs courage to wake up and want to be nobody. It changes the way you look at everything, the things that you'd disrespect all your life, about how some people never do anything, subconsciously exist, laze around all day, and their lives are so slow - now you think, what's wrong with that? It's not that you'd probably change your worldview after looking at these things, but it's an endearing invitation to different worldviews. The craft is on point, the way it's shot and edited, and the kind of music that is used - it has a warm, cozy feeling to it. The pace of the conversations has a more soothing pace to it, than a few seasons earlier, also a way of showing how they grew up.