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Saif and his estranged wife where he begs her to return to his lonely life. Saif moves around with a bloodied severed thumb, and I wondered if that thumb is indicative of the wounded city of Mumbai.

There is more bleakness and wretchedness. I couldn't see a single happy character in the entire length and breadth of the series. No one laughs except to mock another. The humour, if it can be called that, is incredibly cheerless. Gainkonde in Mombassa, tells the hot-headed Bunty (Jatin Sarna) in Mumbai, he is gone off to the moon.

Bunty's gaze goes up in the sky. LOL.

Even the new characters of Season 2 are up to no good, for themselves or others.

Pankaj Tripathi as a cryptic guru has the most interesting lines and a character that spreads itself out gradually into a bewildering arc of demoniacal destruction. The tension, built organically into the plot of season one, seems forced here and shoved into a landscape that is as barren as an artificial grass carpet spread in a high-rise living room.