Four More Shots Please! Season 3 Is Still Far Away From Regular Women's Realities

Four More Shots Please! has returned with its third season and what a comeback! With all the glam that this show provides, the characters have also moved forward with more clarity and consciousness. It is a good watch when you're done hearing to same old narratives of men in most films and shows.

The last two seasons of Four More Shots Please! dealt with their complicated love lives that interfered with their careers badly. This time, along with more drama in their love lives, writers have added a little more flesh to the characters. The self-realisation of the four main characters was the only thing to look forward to in this season. Since the second season, they have spoken a lot about closure and it doesn't seem like any of them are yet ready for it. Even though they get closure about something, the next day circumstances go back to square one.

Four More Shots Please S3 Review

Spoilers ahead

This season of the show focuses on dealing with grief as the character Siddhi, played by Maanvi Gagroo lost her father to a heart attack quite suddenly and Damini played by Sayani Gupta had a miscarriage. Siddhi was shown as a woman who can be called spoilt and immature, her growth is a slow but steady one. She was always close to her dad so this time in a very strange circumstance when her mum Sneha played by Simone Singh and she spends time together and meets people who look at them with nothing but pity in their eyes. Siddhi tries to be there for her mother and protect her. The show questions at people's perception of widows and the men who try to take disadvantage of the vulnerability of a woman in grief. When Sneha eventually finds someone she liked spending time with, Siddhi goes back to her immature and needy self and breaks them up. The stand-up sets of her throughout the season were mostly rants regarding her own frustrations and unprocessed grief. Siddhi's character has risen high above where she started, but she deserved more depth in her character than this.

Damini on the other hand is dealing with an unhappy job and an unhappy relationship with Jeh, played by Prateek Babbar. Her book backfired and got banned and she is being forced to stay away from political stories at work. A young politician approaches Damini for his election campaign where she finds joy again. Putting her back into the triangle of infidelity like she had found herself in the past. Anjana played by Kriti Kulhari is back with her ex-husband Varun who is another manchild. It's sad that even after having a great premise for her character, Anjana misses every chance to be herself. A self-built woman who fought bigotry at work, can't let herself be without needing a man to validate her existence.

Bani J's character Umang is the only person whose character has shown growth and depth in this season, completely unlikely the previous ones. Umang builds her own workspace with the help of Siddhi but her feelings are messed up, especially after the introduction of the new characters in her life Meher and Sean who further complicates her leftover feelings for Samara. Umang tries to make amends with her family, especially her dad but doesn't succeed in the first go.

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What Is The Show Really About?

The show gets criticised often for how it has portrayed sex in each of the lead women's lives. All of them end up sleeping with everyone they meet and it feels unrelatable and unfair to women out there. It is understandable that for the purpose of entertainment and drama, exaggeration of relationships is needed, but why a coworker, ex or a person whom they met only twice has to lead up to sex? Women have bigger problems to deal with than ending up sleeping with everyone they meet, it's ridiculous to a point. One might say that most of the shows made by men don't talk about women's sexual needs but mislead into thinking that women get flawlessly dressed up everyday and have time for their friends who are full-time working women too, along with one who is a mother and they balance everything so perfectly is not unrealistic. The show has demonstrated flaws in its characters but they live an awfully perfect life with very tiny problems which are rarely relatable.

Women need to be represented more in quantity for sure, but the quality can't drop and cater to a stereotype. Four More Shots Please! can look around and see what women get to deal with in real life and what exactly goes on in their minds, even if they are as privileged as these four.

Views expressed are author's own.