Review: Paatal Lok Season 2 Is As Good As Season 1

The powerful and unsettling Paatal Lok, the Amazon Prime Video series that rightfully ranks among the best web shows made in India, kicked off with the unearthing of a plot to kill the editor-in-chief of a news channel. The show's Season 2 opens with a gory murder. The killer opening is not the only divergence between the two seasons.

Paatal Lok Season 2 is set in a world apart. Foraying into a corner of India they know little about, Inspector Hathi Ram Chaudhary (Jaideep Ahlawat), jaded but as strong-willed as ever, and Imran Ansari (Ishwak Singh), now an Assistant Commissioner of Police charged with investigating the sensational murder of a high-profile and shadowy Nagaland businessman-politician, dive in deep, their eyes and minds open.

ACP Ansari brings Hathi Ram (who is still languishing in the Outer Jamuna Paar police station) on board because a missing person case the latter is handling appears to have a bearing on the larger murder probe. The duo lands in Dimapur and is instantly hit by a maelstrom of challenges that put them to the severest test of their careers.