Two Much, Two Little #NotAMovieReview

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If you thought 2025 would be the year we finally retired the tired gender clichés; men as clueless oafs and women as nagging perfectionists, you probably didn’t watch the latest episode of 'Two Much with Kajol and Twinkle' on Amazon Prime. The guests? Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan. Amazing men, but the conversation? Somewhere between a marital advice column from 1982 and a stand-up routine that refused to end. The women, both fabulous and ferociously independent in real life, decided to announce that men only need two phrases in their vocabulary: “I’m sorry” and “You’re right.” (Or as Kajol put it, “You are tight,” which, honestly, deserves its own Freudian analysis.)

Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m all for humor. I’ve laughed through Koffee With Karan’s shameless gossip sessions, but, watching two intelligent women banter about how men “pretend to listen” felt like déjà vu in a very bad way. We’ve been here before; in sitcoms, in WhatsApp forwards, in uncles’ wedding speeches, and we didn’t laugh then either. In 2025, do we really need another episode where feminism is reduced to eye-rolling at men and sighing about sagging anatomy?

It’s ironic, isn’t it? Kajol and Twinkle are women who’ve lived boldly, outspoken, unapologetic, unbothered. I love them individually and together. Both have a brilliant sense of humor and can laugh at themselves. I was so excited when this show was announced and I've already mentioned one too many times that Bollywood talk shows are my guilty pleasure. And yet, when given a platform, their version of “Too Much” ended up being too little. Too little imagination, too little progress, too little faith in what women’s conversations can sound like when we stop playing into clichés. I half-expected one of them to pull out a pink apron and say, “Now, back to the kitchen jokes!”

Let’s be honest, Koffee With Karan suddenly feels like The Crown in comparison. Say what you want about Karan Johar, but at least he’s mastered the art of controlled chaos. He spills coffee, not the cause. The man’s been milking gossip for two decades and somehow, his show manages more emotional range than this episode that was supposedly about gender dynamics. When your feminist banter makes Karan’s rapid-fire round look profound, you know you’ve lost the plot. Three episodes in, with some of the brilliant guests and the only words that come to my mind are, "Too dull". At this point, I'm just hoping that the episode with Karan as a guest would be entertaining. But then again, he's coming with Jhanvi Kapoor, so I don't want to have too much expectations. See what I did there? Trust me, this is more funny than the actual jokes on the show.

We need to move past these lazy tropes: that men earn more, that women “talk too much,” that men don’t “get hints,” and that women can’t read maps. Newsflash: women can lead global companies and parallel park; men can cry without losing their testosterone. The modern world isn’t split into Mars and Venus anymore; it’s a crowded subway of humans trying to survive capitalism and find Wi-Fi. Reducing relationships to “husband says sorry, wife wins argument” is like trying to watch Succession on a black-and-white TV.

If anything, shows like this prove how uncomfortable we still are with real conversations about equality. We love pretending we’re progressive until someone says, “Hey, maybe stop making gender the punchline.” The title itself seems to suggest that women are "too much". Then everyone panics, someone mentions “cancel culture,” and before you know it, we’re back to giggling about “droopy breasts” and “men not listening.” It’s tragicomic; the feminism of memes, where empowerment is filtered through punchlines.

Here’s the thing. Women deserve to be complex, messy, and contradictory - not caricatures. Men deserve better than being labeled emotionally deaf idiots. The world deserves talk shows that don’t insult the intelligence of their guests or their viewers. In short, Two Much wasn’t just too much - it was too predictable, too shallow, too tired and too dated. Maybe next time, instead of teaching men what to say, we could teach talk shows what to stop saying. Also, Kajol and Twinkle could remind TV producers and themselves (they are the executive producers of the show) that the joke’s only funny when it’s not fifty years old.