I watched this like three months ago and don't remember anything, so it makes sense that I am now about to write a post about it :')
I remember...loving this. Like, I watched the first ep and right away was hooked and ready to enjoy the ride. The two leads: Riz and John, were immediately amazing and interesting to me. Riz with his deer with graves disease eyed innocence, and John Turturro's doofy-sexy human cigarette with eczema realness - like, I was immersed automatically and that's just a gr8 feeling.
So Riz plays a Pakistani-American (right?) named Nasir. He's a college kid, I believe. His geek ass gets invited to a party or something (or invited to crash with a fellow geek), so for some reason he steals his dad's taxi to go??? And of course his geek ass ends up accepting passengers..or, did he only accept the cute white girl? Yeah, like these other guys tried to get in his cab but he FOR SOME REASON asked cops for help to have the dudes removed. I knew Naz was a goner when he did that stupid shit. HOW YOU STEALING A CAR ASKING COPS FOR ASSISTANCE? Dumb! He's just a dummy and no wonder he ended up going to prison for some shit he prob most likely aint eem do. BUT I'M GETTNG AHEAD OF MYSELF!
Smh, so ol' boy in his daddy's stolen taxi riding around like a dummy and White Girl gets in his cab. He doesn't tell her to leave like the others I guess cuz she has a vageen, so that's nice :') He asks her where she wants to go and she's all like idk the beach? What do you mean you don't know. Um, redflag, but he tryna get puss so he just go along with it.
I forgot where they go? Somewhere to look at water and do ecstasy? Why does every white person in every show I watch do ecstasy? Is ecstasy just OKAY now? Like I wouldn't be surprised if Modern Family had a casual Haley does ecstasy storyline like it's getting ridonkulous at this point. (Is there even a character on Modern Family called Haley lol smh when will I stop being racist? Girl, NEVER!). So Naz and his new bae go back to her place and she all weird and shit telling him to stab her. Natch :') They do some drink and drugs, I guess? Then sexy times. Then viola! Naz wakes up and ol' girl been stabbed like 12 millions times and is DEAD AF (prob she is, Naz doesn't check to be sure and just dips). Well, he starts to dip, then turns around to take a knife from the scene of the crime, THEN he dips :') And you as the audience member just tallying up everything they finna drag his dumb ass for when he in court :')
Everything after...Naz leaves White Girl's crib is so...frustrating, and...like, ridiculous. But also it seems...true? Like it would really ridiculously happen? But him getting fucking pulled over and then the cops putting him in the back of their squad car and OF COURSE they get a call on the radio about the literal crime scene he just escaped from and they GO OVER THERE with him in the backseat and then they fucking take his ass to the precinct and he sittin' in there nervous as fuck and attempts to try to escape several times and then someone asks about him and he gets patted down AND THE COP FINDS THE FUCKING KNIFE HIS STUPID ASS SHOULDA JUST LEFT AT THE SCENE OR AT LEAST CHUCKED IN THE RIVER OR SOME SHIT IDK FUCK!!!! All of it was nerve-wracking and amazing and all in the first ep and I was like yaaaaaas sign me up for the bullshit, tbh. Sign me tf up!!
I loved John Tutty as the incompetent lawyer dude. Was he incompetent or good? Both? Idk, but he was hella gross lol with that eczema shit, but I just loved the character like it was just fun to watch him maneuver and try to figure things out and also get fired and dissed, sigh this show had me on a freakin' roller coaster ride.
Can we talk about how intense the prison scenes were? First of all, all of Pakistani Princess' prison mates were black, and smh. Lol but who couldn't have seen ol' dude with the hot baby oil or whatever he had going on coming from a mile away? Also what was the deal with the dude Michael K. Williams played whose name I'm forgetting? I feel like he was doing someone but I couldn't place it, or maybe I did at the time but forgot? Idk, but I wanted Dummy Deer to stay away from him. I think once the Pakistani Princess got that oil or hot toilet noodle water or whatever it was tossed at him, he was like, OKAY I need a squad. I swear I would fucking be killed in prison on the first day lol I can't deal with these shows that have some innocent idiot surrounded by career lunatics and degenerates (Oz is one of my fave shows so wtf am I talking about) (who says Oz is one of their favorite shows wtf...). It's too intense, but I really wanted Nasir to tough it out on his own, but nah he joined up with Scarface and had to start smuggling drugs in his bootyhole. It's either that or get the business. BUT WAIT, THAT OTHER BOY WAS SMUGGLING AND STILL GETTING RAPED SO WTF!! Smh, this show made me want to throw up at times (but in a good way) (take my blog from me please).
You know what I loved? So much. Riz Ahmed's entire performance. The amazingness of his transformation? Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. It was so subtle, but significant. I think he's nommed for an Emmy? Idk who else in his category but he better get it, because he did that. To go from college dummy idiot (but also a drug dealer lowkey highkey???), to like, this hardened drug addicted ex-con? He slayed. Remember when he seduced that lawyer assistant chick or whatever she was? What dumb broad would ruin her whole career over some doe-eyed fucking junkie prison dude? (me.) But just that he had her smuggling drugs in for me was a testament to Riz's great performance, because could you imagine earlier-in-the-series Naz pulling that off? No, but ruined and corrupt (and suspiciously thicker-necked) later-in-the-series Naz? Absofuckinglutely. Like, I was tew through with his performance, I really loved it. John was good too lol. Oh, also the older lawyer chick from the plaintiff side who I think worked for the state? (Jeannie Berlin). She slayed, and dragged Naz so good like I was getting mad lol. Amazing.
The ending was bittersweet because he got off and we even got a reveal of the real killer, but justice was not necessarily served. Though I guess we can hope it eventually will be. But ion eem care because now you got my bae addicted to meth or whatever and his life is in shambles and prob will be forever lol. Like, he survived prison, but is that really a great thing? It's like surviving Vietnam. Like, congrats, but you still killed all those babies, so good luck ever sleeping again :')
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