Starring Vihaan Samat, Ankur Rathee, Rahul Bose, Suchitra Pillai, Eternally Confused and Looking for Love is streaming now on Netflix. The much-awaited series is meant to resonate with millennials and Gen Z-ers who find it difficult to navigate the world of dating. But is this enough to capture the interest of a generation that can access content from across the world at the click of a button?

Written, directed and created by Rahul Nair, this is the story of Ray (Vihaan Samat), an awkward 25-year-old with an imaginary guardian angel named Wiz (Jim Sarbh) and a non-existent love life. Ray has crippling anxiety about dating, bad enough to make inappropriate jokes about old grandparents or staring at his attractive date from a distance before cancelling on her.

While he struggles with this apparently huge problem, his parents, played by Rahul Bose and Suchitra Pillai, insist on setting him up. To make matters worse, Ray routinely takes advice from Varun (Ankur Rathee), his colleague, and his best friend Riya (Dalai), who both make it their life’s mission to find him the perfect date and finally bid adieu to his virginity.

The series has a tough time holding your attention because of its slow pace. It develops gradually but the story is uninspiring enough to make you lose patience with it.

Most of the actors have a heavy accent that you can’t really place or find a reason for. The rich kid vibe gets annoying after the first episode because you realise soon enough that this is the main focus of Eternally Confused and Eager for Love. Imagine Akash and Shalini from Dil Chahta Hai had a son and made a 2022 sequel. Perhaps co-producers Zoya Akhtar, Farhan Akhtar, and Ritesh Sidhwani need to update their styles and aesthetics to go beyond the same genre of people. After all, there’s more to the world than kids with generational wealth who create their own problems.

The only actor that stands out is Jim Sarbh. Well, his voice. If you do want to watch more than one episode, you will do this mostly to hear what Wiz has to say.

The series has eight episodes of about 20-25 minutes each, so you can binge Eternally Confused and Eager for Love in a single night. But should you? If you enjoy the travails of the urban rich, sure, you might enjoy this series. But if you’re looking for something that will make you laugh or keep you hooked to the story, this series will disappoint you.

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