Four More Shots Please Season 4 Review: Amazon Prime Video’s Four More Shots Please returns for its fourth and final season, bringing closure to one of Indian OTT’s most talked-about female-led series. Season 4 raises a toast to acceptance and letting go, and this show has been let go by the makers, who have seemingly accepted that they cannot bring more to the table.
The season takes you four years ahead and begins with Siddhi (Maanvi Gagroo) getting married to Mihir (Rajeev Siddhartha). She gets cold feet and is nervous about her choice of partner- this sets the tone of the season. The show has now become entirely about Siddhi, and her friends seem like an afterthought. What began as a story about four women navigating love, ambition and friendship has now been diluted.
The second sentence of my notes reads, “Did they make this season only to end the show?” Four More Shots Please Season 4 is more B-roll than show. It is a disappointing, half-hearted effort to conclude a story that has lost its plot. Themes like identity and independence take a back seat, and so do Kirti Kulhari, Sayani Gupta and Bani J.
Siddhi has found her footing on the stage, but she only gets applause when she talks about the lack of sex in her married life. When her husband objects to their dirty laundry being aired in public, she quickly switches lanes to become a content creator. She enlists Ash’s (Kunal Roy Kapoor) help, who poses as her fake husband on social media, and their chemistry impresses their followers.
You can guess what happens next: a troubled marriage, an insecure husband, an empathetic and funny poser with a crush. Although this is Siddhi’s storyline, Kunal Roy Kapoor is the heart of this plot. For a character introduced in the final season, Ash is well-written and commands the most attention on screen.
Damini and Umang have similar storylines and have been given a similarly confusing treatment. Damini has now ventured into podcasting, and here, too, Ash quickly becomes its highlight. The gravitas that Damini had in the previous seasons is missing, making it apparent that season 4 has been helmed by someone new to the show (Arunima Sharma).
