Sacred Games, the first Indian Netflix series, ought to have been spectacular. Bollywood mainstay Saif Ali Khan leads a who’s-who of tremendous talent in a show helmed by two of the industry’s most interesting directors, but its spectacle lies mostly in its lurid texture. It bleeds street-level authenticity seldom seen in the Indian mainstream — characters speak Hindi, Marathi, English and Punjabi, though the series’ default audio setting internationally is its English dub — trading in the polished poetry of Bollywood dialogue for uncouth, often hilarious swearing. Unshackled from the censorious constraints of Indian cinema, it’s an often ambiguous, unapologetically violent work set against Mumbai’s criminal underbelly. Its imagery is propulsive, when divorced from any larger context. As a whole however, it’s a haphazard, hamstrung morality play that can’t seem to balance its moving parts.

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Source: IGN.com Netflix's Latest Crime Series is Like Hannibal Without the Satisfaction