Is Netflix’s Sacred Games The New Narcos? Read What The Foreign Media Is Saying!
Netflix first Indian original Sacred Games is being compared to the international show Narcos for their similarities. The foreign media have highly appreciated the series in their reviews.
Anurag
Kashyap
and
Vikramaditya
Motwane
co-directed
Netflix's
first
Indian
original
Scared
Games
is
gaining
recognition
worldwide
since
its
release
on
July
6,
2018.
The
show
that
is
available
in
nearly
200
countries
is
being
compared
to
the
international
show
Narcos!
Narcos
is
based
on
the
rise
and
fall
of
the
Columbian
drug
lord,
Pablo
Escobar.
Similarly,
Sacred
Games
revolves
around
the
rise
of
slum
gangster
Ganesh
Gaitonde.
From
Guardian
to
The
New
York
Times,
this
is
how
the
foreign
media
has
reviewed
Sacred
Games.
Barbara
Ellen
of
Guardian
reviewed
Sacred
Games
saying,
"uncompromising
performances,
a
script
bristling
with
lyricism,
and
an
intriguing
air
of
vibrancy
and
originality.".
She
also
said
the
Indian
series
has
the
potential
to
start
a
new
genre
called
Bollynoir.
The
New
York
Times'
review
read,
"Netflix
has
chosen
a
production
from
the
same
genre
as
a
previous
success,
the
American-Colombian
Narcos.
While
the
series
is
a
fair
approximation
of
the
kind
of
multigenerational,
lightly
fantastical
Asian,
African
or
South
American
novel
that
routinely
lands
on
American
best-seller
lists,
its
picaresque,
expansive
storytelling
and
literary
flavor
are
not
what
American
audiences
are
used
to
in
a
crime
series.,"
"Sacred
Games
is
filled
with
those
aforementioned
storytelling
quirks
that
viewers
will
likely
just
go
with
as
they
are
distracted
by
the
enticingly
foreign
elements
that
colour
a
familiar
story
that
their
brain
tries
to
process,
like
a
simultaneously
recognizable
but
tweaked
narrative.
Many
of
Netflix's
most
popular
international
series
thrive
on
this
slight
disconnect
-
a
story
that
feels
familiar,
American
even,
but
is
told
through
a
lens
that
lets
the
other
side
of
the
world
in,." Ssaid
The
Hollywood
Reporter's
review.
While
majority
of
the
reviews
praised
the
show,
IndieWire
had
a
different
opinion.
The
only
negative
review
said
that
the
show's
subtleties
are
undone
by,
"the
overbearing
violence
(both
psychological
and
physical)
that
permeates
nearly
every
other
frame
of
the
series.".
One
of
the
best
reviews
from
the
audiences' end
includes
comedian
Daniel
Fernandes'
tweet
that
said,
"Narcos
gave
the
world
"putha",
Sacred
Games
has
now
given
the
world
"b***chod"!
#Globalization"
-
(sic)