No Romance or Comedy on this Kuwaiti Rom-Com Sequence

The Cage (القفص) is a romantic comedy sequence from Kuwait, launched on Netflix globally on eleventh October. It’s produced by Abdullah Boushahri and directed by Jasem Almuhanna. This sequence marks the primary Netflix sequence from Kuwait that guarantees to ship a recent perspective, thrilling twists and turns and a few beloved, acquainted faces.

It’ll comply with the highs and lows of a pair’s marital life in 8 episodes, with a runtime of about 35-40 minutes and goals to supply a recent tackle how marital challenges are portrayed in Arab drama.

The solid of the sequence contains Khaled Ameen, Hussain Almahdi, Rawan Mahdi, Lamya Tareq, Shabnam Khan, Hessa Alnabhan, Shawq, Mai Albalushi, Ahmed Mossaed and Zaina Mahdi.

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Netflix’s synopsis of the sequence reads:

A wedding counsellor tries to dissuade his warring shoppers from getting a divorce whereas juggling his personal romantic dilemmas.

-The Cage Assessment Does Not Include Any Spoilers-

Khaled Ameen performs a wedding counsellor named Dr Nasser, who’s working with a married couple, performed by Hussain AlMahdi as Zaid & Rawan Mahdi as Rawan, to handle their variations and higher perceive one another’s perspective to avoid wasting their marriage. Following the couple and the evolution of their relationship throughout the final a long time.

Whereas the counsellor helps them reconnect, he’s going through struggles in his private life too. The problems that he’s attempting to resolve along with his sufferers are juxtaposed parallel to his personal life points. He could also be one of the best at his job, listening and declaring the issues that the {couples} can’t see clearly, nonetheless, is he the identical in his personal life?

When a brand new couple sitting in Dr Nasser’s workplace, argues over fried eggs, their marriage counsellor asks them to revisit the time once they met, within the period of cassette tapes and pagers. Zaid and Rawan recall how their relationship blossomed from a automobile accident resulting in stolen moments on their household’s landlines, the place they deliberate their future.

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Over the course of the entire sequence, we revisit all the numerous moments in Zaid and Rawan’s life from proposal to marriage and youngsters. By means of that, we get to know what made each of them so bitter in direction of one another and if is there a center floor of their turbulent bickering life.

Together with their retro love story, within the current time, Dr Nasser appears to be dwelling a love story of his personal, coping with considerably comparable points along with his ‘buddy for all times’. The sequence begins off with Dr Nasser breaking the fourth wall and addressing the digicam/viewers, as he will get prepared for his shoppers. However this component is simply used within the first episode and the final, and nowhere else.

As soon as the character has addressed the viewers, it’s more likely to hold utilizing it all through or the creators shouldn’t have used it in any respect. It could have been fascinating to know the inside ideas of the Physician, as he listened to his sufferers go on and on and would have added a wanted humour component.

Equally, when Zaid and Rawan are telling their facet of the story, you get to see visually – how they understand their companions. Rawan seems as a loud, brat in Zaid’s perspective and he seems as an orthodox and conservative non secular man. This provides us a lot perception into the character and is humorous, nonetheless. Nevertheless it isn’t used ever once more within the sequence, whilst you anticipate it to return.

Summing Up: The Cage

The Cage (القفص) has a reasonably inventive idea that might have been delivered to the display in a really humorous method. However whether or not the creators acquired lazy or simply forgot about continuity, it seems to be an underwhelming sequence, which could even make the viewers flip it off, after listening to the couple preventing constantly.

At first, you suppose okay, Zaid and Rawan are clearing their variations initially however when they’re nonetheless screaming at one another in the previous couple of episodes, it simply places you off. It’s neither humorous nor provides something extra to the story. For my part, they’re simply not it, if I have been their counsellor, I might have suggested them to interrupt it off.

In Dr Nasser’s case as properly, he acts like a buddy asking them about their love story, relatively than being knowledgeable. Additionally, we don’t get to know what’s his cope with Lamiaa actually is till the tip, which ought to have been explored in additional element and in a transparent method.

Total, it’s an okayish sequence in the event you take pleasure in Arabic dramas. The sequence tip-toes on the fence about both being good or completely obnoxious. If their concept of engaged on a foul marriage is to recollect the great occasions and neglect all of the unhealthy, then they’ve all of it flawed.

The Cage is at the moment streaming on Netflix.

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