Varun (Alexander Ghai) has only come to that exact hotel bar to meet with an old friend - only that friend never showed, instead he's left with realtors Jack (Felix Merback) and Pouya (Xander Bailey), who just happen to know about the "deal of a lifetime" - and since the deal looks healthy on paper, at least to a drunk mind, and he needs a place to move to with his bew wife Pooja (Summer Singh), he signs on for their deal - only for Pooja to find out the next day he's been scammed, but in such a way he can't legally get out of it. This leads to Varun's downfall, to a point where he falls over drunkenly, hits his head the wrong way and dies. Pooja has a miscarriage following this. But then a chance acquaintance, Sarah (Bree Mignano), helps her setting up a scheme to get her revenge on those who drained her husband's finances. Her plan though means for Pooja to charm Jack and become his girlfriend - including everything that goes with it. And eventually, Pooja starts to develop genuine feelings for Jack. That is, until she's invited to meet Jack's sister Nicole (Chelsea Gilson), who drugs her and ties her to a chair since she and her brother have long found out who Pooja really is ...

Now in writing, The Twisted Doll might sound like your typical revenge and female empowerment tale, but in filmed form it's much more than just that, especially since due to its episodic nature - this series went through 10 minutes, under 20 minutes each - it's allowed to veer off to intentionally confuse, sometimes even deceive the audience for a bit and add details and new interpretations to a well-known storyline - which does it heaps of good in the process. And if you add to that a solid cast and a genre savvy direction, you naturally end up with pretty cool genre entertainment.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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