Understandable! Netflix’s intended analogies are similar to couple of 1960s–80s cult leaders (of India & US) who thought Sexual Revolution everywhere can resolve most of the global misery! But again, that ain’t correct, as we’re > 7 billion Humans, an end product of Sexual Revolution & Procreation, Yet, agonized. A monk who never encountered sex might be at peace, but, someone who married for sex or procreation or who’s highly sexually active, might be living in melancholia; and there’re divorces due to sex (infidelity or incompetence) too, even after being high on sex, anywhere else.
Almost all battles were fought for or against Love, not Lust, as latter is emotionless & raw; thus, if the premise of any story is mere Lust, then that Story is going nowhere.
Now, thinking that the series, be it -> The Girlfriend Experience, or, Four More Shots Please (overdoing of everything), or, Fishbowl Wives, or, Sex/Life, or, Normal People, or, the Theatrical Plays alike The Vagina Monologues, & nudity in them would bring some sort of Sexual Revolution into Mainstream, and further could help mitigating Anger, Political Heists globally, as what few Cult Leaders of 1960s-80s era thought that most of the Chaos is the result of Sexual Starvation of Individuals; then it should be noted that time & time, again & again, such theories & propositions had/have been proven to be a Myth.
Coming back to the Review of Fishbowl Wives. Except of the Protagonists’ Sakura-Haruto twin ray bonding + storyline, where Sakura metaphorically being a Goldfish itself, exuding courage, liberation from domestic violence; the rest of the distinct unconnected stories included in between the story of these protagonists, be it of Noriko or Yuko or Hisako or the Rest, were unneeded or maybe another 50 shades of grey or 365 days in the making. Whereas, Noriko was more like a sex slave, coerced by her husband to do certain acts, but being projected as a liberated woman; that somehow diluted Sakura’s bravery or fearlessness or compassion in the episodes.
It’s Sakura that sewed the season together, & it’s only because of her, I watched the entire season. What a lovely character, one would desire to live with it.
Further, the piano-violin combo as a background score always work. Be it Richard Gere’s Hachi – A Dog’s Tale or Ronin or many others. Had the Story been more revolving around Sakura-Haruto with that piano-violin background score, rather, amalgamating unneeded segregated storylines of the mentioned above merely built on sex starvation; it would’ve been much better.
© Pranav Chaturvedi
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