When you think of the programs involving gangsters, family quarrels, drug trafficking and characters in the head, I bet that sopranos, power or rupture come to mind. What you probably did not imagine, however, is a pair of original Pakistani brothers who learn randomly to release a cocaine empire in a corner store in Philadelphia. In Hulu’s Deli Boys, who made his debut on March 6, Raj Dar by Asif Ali Ali and Saagar Shaikh is doing their best – and worse – to help themselves and companies survive.
The first 10 minutes of the series set the tone in this wild and folding mixture of kind of black comedy, criminal drama and action of the creator Abdullah Saeed. And this mixture makes it a ridiculously fun watch that evokes a sensation similar to weeds or the Sun brothers. Many things happen to Deli’s boys, and it starts with the unexpected bloody death of the rich family patriarch, Baba (Iqbal Theba), who directed several companies that put his sons – and the rest of the family – in difficulty after his death. And by “rest of the family”, I mean the family of crime.
Shaikh embodies the older brother Raj, a free -minded professional slacker who loves marijuana, is aware of the chakra and has a place at home that he shares with his girlfriend sharing the same ideas, meadow. Ali embodies the buttoned younger brother Mir, who wants to follow in the footsteps of his father to manage the family chain of the family. None of them knows that their father is one of the criminal hells until he left, and they get an intensive hilarious course in reality from the “aunt” of Poorna Jagannathan and “Uncle” Ahmad (Brian George).
For years, Baba has been working cocaine hidden in Achaar pots that financed their luxurious lifestyle all the time. It is not because he died that it’s over. The debts are due and the dars must survive.
Raj, Mir, “aunt” Lucky and “uncle” Ahmad plead their file to a crime boss.
“Why would you like to steal your own cocaine, you idiots?” Lucky asks for the pair as they pack the product in underwear. His hard love and his training in the drug game inaugurate the brothers thanks to a case with a boss of the Italian crowd, a competition with a rival family and a warmth of a cartel. His management of his nephews Nitwit and the elegant master’s degree in firearms and business are lucky an entertaining character. It is a iced stone killer who teaches them that sometimes they must be too.
Through each episode of half an hour, Mir and Dar are perpetually shocked and confused as “spoiled kids” sheltered which are thrown into meetings with enemies inside and outside their inner circle while facing a meticulous examination of the FBI and arguing like the brothers and sisters. In a scene, they are supposed to eliminate a body and it does not go as planned. It is a sequence that takes place in GOOFBAL fashion but ends up with a bloody waste. Teamwork and wet work go in a fun way. As I said, a lot is going on here.
Raj and Mir, look confused as usual.
Watch them understand what the devil will, sometimes you wonder: “Now, why would they do that?” Raj and Mir are often not sure of themselves on this new path, and a theme on the family helps to found this part of the story. And it is a story filled with colorful people like Tan France, who plays a hitman, and there is also a cocaine boss which is emotionally sensitive to her job. Guillermo Diaz even presents himself as a guest star making supernatural acrobatics.
Deli Boys is colorful, cheeky and noisy – with some cool combat sequences and aggressively violent dead which are supposed to be the opposite of the disturbance. The chemistry of the brothers and sisters of Asif and Shaikh is convincing in their representation of Mir and Raj. Everyone around them has trouble believing it, and sometimes they themselves have trouble. Are we supposed to be rooted so that these brothers succeed as cocaine dealers? I’m not sure, but it’s worth the wacky trip to ABC Deli with these boys.
