India, Feb. 12 -- There are several moments in the sophomore season of Kohrra, Netflix's haunting police procedural drama, where the violence is not in the explicit, but the implicit. The terrified recoil of a bonded labour, a mother looking at a motorcycle on which her son died, and a road accident. None of these scenes show violence. Yet, brutality is central to the second season of Kohrra. The beauty - if that word can even be used for a show as grim - is in how the creators have presented that violence, and more so in how it affects the people it hits.

ASI Amarpal Garundi (Barun Sobti) has been transferred out his hometown and is working under SI Dhanwant (Mona Singh). Newly married Amarpal is hiding a dark secret from his wife, whil...