'She' season 3: Shocking reviews could sink the Netflix India series

Poor reviews of the new season could sink the chances of She season 3 being ordered by Netflix following price cuts and layoffs.
Despite only being available for a few hours, fans from the first season have been quick to binge the seven-episode second broadcast.
However, as with most fans around the world, our attention quickly turns to the future as soon as the credits roll on the final episode.
She has not yet been renewed for a third season, but the chances of seeing Bhumi return are unfortunately becoming slimmer and slimmer as more and more reviews flood in.
Today, June 17^th, the second seven-episode season of She premiered around the world on the Netflix streaming platform.
The Aditi Sudhir Pohankar-led series first made its debut back in 2020 with its brutal and honest portrayal of an undercover assignment gone-wrong making waves with fans worldwide.
“SHE: Season 2 sees Bhumi continue to discover herself, exploring themes of sexual awakening and duality. She is absolutely magnetic in the way she plays the double risk of being the hunter and the hunted, finding herself falling deeper into the complex web of Nayak’s plans whilst smoothly thwarting Fernandez’s suspicions.” – Netflix Press Release.
Prior to the release, the showrunners were certainly doing their best to promote season 2 as the next big series from Netflix India with creator Imtiaz Ali saying “She in the second season remains a deeply personal story even as it catapults to a higher octane drama.”
Director Arif Ali would then add how “The thrill aspect has been built out further with multiple characters and their complexities at odds with Bhumi’s promising a riveting binge viewing of season 2.”
Unfortunately, it appears that the TV critics have not been as impressed with She’s return as the showrunners would have wanted; potentially sinking the chances of a third season.
“Kho Jaane De” khud ko in Bhumi’s thrilling story, because SHE is back!

This time, Bhumi plays the game and the players! Watch the madness unfold in SHE Season 2, now streaming on Netflix! pic.twitter.com/NHR1kekSy8
As previously noted, She has not yet been publicly renewed for season 3 by either Netflix India or the showrunners.
Sadly, the criti’cs reviews of She’s second season could significantly impact the chances of season 3 being greenlit by Netflix. The streaming giant had already slashed its prices in India earlier this year as it attempts to keep pace with the likes of Amazon Prime Video and Disney Plus Hotstar.
Couple this with the laying off of around 150 Netflix employees in the US and it’s obvious that Netflix is trying to get as much bang for their buck (or ‘results for their Rupees’) as possible, i.e., shows need to earn the demand needed for renewals.

Unfortunately, it appears that the fate of She is now hanging in the balance because of poor reviews from critics, with the vast majority of early breakdowns being highly critical of the new season.
FirstPost admits that “SHE is stunningly effective in places, especially when it wants to dive into the world of prostitution and the characters that populate its uncertain world.” However, praise certainly wears thin with later comments on how this is an “ultimately tiring second season”, even arguing that the explicitness is probably the only reason why the show has an audience.
The Times of India gave She season 2 just a 3/5, stating how the story starts to unwind after episode 3. Whilst props are again given to the fantastic cast, poor writing and inconsistencies are the final nails in She’s coffin, with the tag line “She’ is complicated and its essence is often hard to comprehend. It didn’t have to be that way though.”
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Filmibeat also gave the series’ second season a 3/5 score, yet again with praise for the actors and their performances despite poor writing. Interestingly, they note how it would be possible to go straight into season 2 without watching the first season (which is never a good sign). They rightly conclude how Aaditi Pohankar’s talent as an actress deserved a more challenging plot.
Gadgets360 arguably give the most scathing review of She season 2, starting off their breakdown by stating that this “might be one of the worst things Imtiaz Ali has ever put on paper.” Elaborating further, the review claims “She season 2 utterly unengaging from the start… Soon after, it’s both rudderless and directionless. It meanders in places, lies to the audience elsewhere, and forgets the main narrative now and then. Its biggest crime, on a minute-to-minute basis, is that there’s no progression.”
“Just then who exactly is She season 2 for? (Did Netflix really see a creative reason for it to exist? Because I’ve even more questions then.) Because it increasingly feels like no one needs to be in the Imtiaz Ali business.” – Akhil Arora, via Gadgets360.
An important point is also made here; how 28 original Indian series have premiered on Netflix since 2018, but there was little reason why She should have received a second season over any others. Adding “It’s not like it broke any viewing records, otherwise Netflix would’ve been tooting its own horn. And I’ve never met a fan of She, let alone legions who were clamouring for a second season.”
“If anything, She manages to prove one thing: there is nothing more off-putting than watching male filmmakers make bank while pontificating about their on-the-nose, surface-level, and frankly inaccurate ideas of female empowerment.” – Poulomi Das, via News Nine.
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