Scoop · Season 1 · Netflix
Scoop Season 1
Scoop Season 1 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 8.1/10. 6 episodes on Netflix from 2 June 2023.
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What BollyAI Thinks
Hansal Mehta adapts Jigna Vora's memoir with the same instinct that made Scam 1992 work: anchoring systemic critique inside one person's lived ordeal. Jagruti Pathak, the crime reporter framed for ordering a murder, is carried by Karishma Tanna in a performance critics identified as the best of her career. The show is dense with period journalism detail, Mumbai crime beat texture, and the machinery of how institutions close ranks against inconvenient individuals. The RT score reflects a genuine consensus. The one reservation some critics raised is structural: the series is so invested in the procedural and institutional layers that its emotional centre occasionally feels secondary to the machinery around it.
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The Room
“Densely plotted yet character-driven, Hansal Mehta's Scoop paints a fascinating portrait of the journalism industry, but buries the lede.”
Rotten Tomatoes“Hansal Mehta sets the bar high in one of the best shows of the year.”
Hindustan Times