Zid - Episode 8

This drama... I feel like Saman has made a non-issue the biggest issue of the universe. Only one out of a hundred girls feel like they are actually 'ready' when they get married. Everyone wants to be young and wild and free. So your parents married you off, so the guy has a bad marriage in his past, so you weren't 'ready,' SO WHAT?

Seriously, get over yourself. You are a smart, career woman and you married a guy who seems pretty sensible. So get off your soapbox and adjust. Get a hobby, get a job, stop hanging out with Rukhi-peekhi. Or the shady goth friend.

This is exactly the message I think Qasim Uncle is trying to impart at the beginning: Get your life together and stop trying to influence my daughters'! 

Itna make up pehn kay koun sota hei? 

Genius move: let's move in with the goth friend from school - who is always yelling at her ex-boyfriend to go away from a closed door, and let her give you marital advice, which  includes suing your husband because YOUR family didn't tell you he had been married before.

Ummm...did I miss something?

Rookhi is all upset that she isn't being allowed to marry a gora - why can't he be judged like a human being? Omar pretty much hit the nail on the head when he says she can't marry him because he has a different culture, a different religion and a different skin tone - basically, he ain't Pakistani.
Whereas this issue seems obvious enough, it is a very deeply rooted issue for second generation Americans. Pakistanis, Arabs, Africans, Japanese - so many peoples have migrated to the US to give their children a better future. But, now that these children have assimilated and accepted themselves to be a product of this melting pot, parents are upset that they are loosing their 'roots' and their 'culture.'

SHOCKER! Shady goth friend is also a shop lifter.

Wait...wait...these two KNOW each other? How? Now we are getting somewhere...

Wah wah. Yeh madam apna career aur asaish pehlay Pakistan mein chordh kar, phir America mein apna shohar aur uskay ghar ka asaish chordh kar, shady doosth ki massi bunnay aaeen hein. Really Saman? Really? You see nothing wrong with this??

Hum TV would have you believe this university jock is actually a druggie and gangster. #YeahRight #CastingIssues

This photographer is so shady. I wouldn't want my daughter to marry him either.

How does an educated, motivated, career woman end up as a nurse??

So that's where I am right now. We've been introduced to some new characters in this episode, and it looks like Saman, Rukhi and Omar are still tangled in their issues. What will happen next? Where is this drama going? Your guess is as good as mine...