Based on some of the reviews, I expected Sarma to be vapid, dumb and just a rotten person who probably deserved what she got. I found myself frustrated with her in the first couple of episodes but after completing all episodes, I feel ashamed that I was so judgmental and couldn't disagree more with those too eager to pass such harsh judgment without a moment of consideration.
I really felt a sense of deep sadness over how increasingly broken she became throughout her relationship with this repulsive, opportunist, textbook sociopath. Sarma comes across as a private, introverted person who hadn't processed whatever internal struggles and pain she was dealing with at the time of getting involved with a conman. Narcissists can smell an empath or vulnerable person from miles away and they're good at what they do. They know which buttons to push and they push them hard because they lack conscience and remorse. People are not people to them but objects to be used and discarded.
Listening to his aggression in the recordings of their phone calls, reading the messages and emails and then seeing the video clips of her in Vegas confirms that her mind had gone into free-fall and she'd completely lost her footing.
Many abused women lose themselves and can't find their way back to normality and sometimes sanity. When apathy takes over, people stop caring about themselves, everyone and everything.--even a previously kind, strong, professional business woman like Sarma, who clearly was once adored by her employees and friends. I was very upset that her employees got the short end of the stick and my blood was boiling that they weren't getting paid. But this story has many victims.
Try to watch through a lens of understanding and follow the story with a heart of compassion and you'll better be able to judge why she acted the way she did. Put your prejudices aside and ignore the ignorant comments some people are spewing here about white privilege, dumb blond, and all the other nonsense. Humans are not perfect and it's easy to speculate what any one us would do in any given situation but nothing is ever straightforward in reality, especially if we fall into traps set by severely personality-disordered individuals. The world is run by psychopaths and if entire nations can fall prey so can a person.
I really felt a sense of deep sadness over how increasingly broken she became throughout her relationship with this repulsive, opportunist, textbook sociopath. Sarma comes across as a private, introverted person who hadn't processed whatever internal struggles and pain she was dealing with at the time of getting involved with a conman. Narcissists can smell an empath or vulnerable person from miles away and they're good at what they do. They know which buttons to push and they push them hard because they lack conscience and remorse. People are not people to them but objects to be used and discarded.
Listening to his aggression in the recordings of their phone calls, reading the messages and emails and then seeing the video clips of her in Vegas confirms that her mind had gone into free-fall and she'd completely lost her footing.
Many abused women lose themselves and can't find their way back to normality and sometimes sanity. When apathy takes over, people stop caring about themselves, everyone and everything.--even a previously kind, strong, professional business woman like Sarma, who clearly was once adored by her employees and friends. I was very upset that her employees got the short end of the stick and my blood was boiling that they weren't getting paid. But this story has many victims.
Try to watch through a lens of understanding and follow the story with a heart of compassion and you'll better be able to judge why she acted the way she did. Put your prejudices aside and ignore the ignorant comments some people are spewing here about white privilege, dumb blond, and all the other nonsense. Humans are not perfect and it's easy to speculate what any one us would do in any given situation but nothing is ever straightforward in reality, especially if we fall into traps set by severely personality-disordered individuals. The world is run by psychopaths and if entire nations can fall prey so can a person.