A coming of the age series, Four More Shots talks about relationships, pain, guilt, and two of the golden topics of this generation: feminism and millennials. The show revolves around four girls embracing the highs and lows of life as they glide through their highly privileged lives. The trailer for Season 1 reminded me of Poo from K3G. I am expecting this series to revolve around not one but four Poo(s), garnished with a hint of millennia on top. 

A journalist by profession and a diva by style, Damini Rizvi Roy (Sayani Gupta) is our first Poo. The show opens with a wet dream of hers where she makes out with Aamir Warsi (Milind Soman) in front of 20 middle-aged corporate looking men.  It seems like a scene from a porno movie. 

Our second Poo, Anjana Menon (Kirti Kulhari) is a lawyer, a divorcee and a single mom to 4-year-old Arya. She is having a hard time trying to balance her personal and professional lives. Plus the prejudices from society she needs to tackle due to her marital status are an added bonus.

The third Poo, Siddhi Patel (Maanvi Gagroo) is a typical SoBo girl (South Bombay). She belongs to a rich Gujarati family and lives in a house which looks more like a mansion. Her mom, Sneha’s motto is to find a suitable rich man for Siddhi. She is doing all that she can to make her plump daughter look ‘marriage material’. Sneha is like the 60s’ villain Pran in Siddhi’s life. 

The last of the four Poo(s), Umang Singh (VJ Bani) is a gym trainer and a desi Punjaban. She is the badass of her group and doesn’t shy away from her bisexuality. She is my favourite character.

All four of them visit the Truck Bar quite regularly to get away from their fast-paced lives and have a moment of comfort with each other. They are good friends with the owner of the bar, Jeh (Prateik Babbar), who also happens to be the bartender at this bar. The girls have a less noisy spot at the back of the bar where they rant about their lives without interruption. 

I'm surprised how these girls manage their finances in such an expensive city with all the drinking and fancy clothing. If I were to have such a huge amount of money rolling in every month, I'd have to drink imaginary beer with the non-existing amount that would be left after paying my zillion bills.

Damini prefers to stay back when it's closing time, to help Jeh out with the cleaning up. Damini and Jeh have some 'aankhon hi aankhon mein ishaara’ going on here. Surely, this duo is going to have wonderful chemistry soon.

Damini is the most organised character I've ever seen. Her OCD gives her character an interesting and noticeable touch. While Damini is busy with helping out Jeh, the rest of the girls smash the 'R' led in the bar's name, so that it reads 'FUCK' instead of 'TRUCK'. That is a fun thing to do. I would give anything to break that 'R' led on a daily basis for the rest of my life. Anyway, Jeh looks at them with a poker face as the girls laugh with amusement. Interestingly, the girls met 3 years ago at this bar due to a similar 'R' and 'F' incident.

The day ends with a not so energetic vibe. The girls head back to their houses and usual sad lives. They lie silently in their beds and overthink themselves to sleep, just like me. Though their days look like a page from a princess movie, their nights are just as sad as mine. 

The next day, Damini is having a tough time at work. She is the founder of a journalism website investigator.com and has an office big enough to take in me and my extended family consisting of 100+ humans. Lately, she has been facing a lot of defamation cases for her fearless journalism, and the company has had to bear a lot of losses for it. 

Not just a friend, Anjana also happens to be Damini's lawyer for the defamatory case that a minister has filed on Damini's company. Sadly, Anjana loses the case, thanks to the judge's condescension towards her. On their way home, Damini and Anjana discuss patriarchy and men. 

Meanwhile, Umang knows exactly what she wants. She fools around with her colleagues in the gym's locker room. But she forgot to notice the CCTV camera...oops.

The episode switches to Siddhi's story and we see that Sneha has called a professional harmonium player for Siddhi's training. She wants Siddhi to be an ideal potential housewife, free of all imperfections. But the harmonium breaks apart when Siddhi tries to catch up to her master. Alongside, I hear Sneha's hopes break a little too. Clearly, singing is not Siddhi's cup of tea.

Turns out, Anjana's ex-husband Varun is dating a girl named Kavya. Anjana was provided with this vital piece of information by her daughter Arya, who happens to spend a lot of time at her father's place. Anjana is jealous of this 'Kavya auntie' that Arya talks about. Anjana wants Varun to check with her before he introduces Arya to new people because she believes that Arya is still adjusting to her parents' divorce. To this, Varun has a savage reply. He says, "Our divorce came in when Arya was 1 so if anything, god forbid you and I have to start loving together na...tab use adjust karna padega". Varun has stand-up comic potential. 

At the gym, Umang scolds a woman for not cleaning up the treadmill after use. The woman turns around and happens to be Umang's celebrity crush, Bollywood star Samara Kapoor. Umang is left petrified at Samara's sight and rushes to clean the treadmill herself. 

Rebellious Damini’s problems with her company's board committee get worse because she gets sued again for an alleged defamatory article without the board's consent. Her tough times are soon to come.

After their hectic days, the girls head back to the bar. They party hard and try to find their happiness in the four shots they take together before another shitty day. Such privilege…

The pilot episode ended with the characters finding ways to live through their daily life's highs and lows. Though the actors have done a great job with their characterization, there wasn't much in the storyline to keep me interested. Take four characters, add a dash of feminism, a sprinkle of disbelief to ignore the unrealism of their extravagant lifestyles, and you'll land up with Four More Shots Please!

Episode Rating: 2/5