India, March 15 -- Face card never declines. Recently, the teen's best friend got this title at their school farewell party. A jaw-droppingly pretty young girl, and equally sassy. She could easily be the younger version of Professor Left-Unnamed-Deliberately, played by Rachel Weisz in Vladimir.

But this is exactly how this Netflix show, touted as the sexiest show of the year, opens. The middle-aged drop-dead professor of English addresses us with a cutting self-realisation that she may not have "power" over another human being anymore. Most of us would exclaim, "Girl, are you serious? You slay! You are the queen," or other such Gen Z inanities. She's married to a celebrity fellow literateur and the Chair of the English department, she's ...