S1.E8 ∙ Episode #1.8

While housesitting for a friend, a recently single man must host a beautiful girl who is crashing on the couch for the week.

Agastya Sen (Rahul Bose), nicknamed "English, August", speaks and thinks in English. A lover of poetry, he listens to Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, rock, and jazz, and reads Marcus Aurelius. He is also an Indian Administrative Service Officer, a member of the most influential and powerful cadre of civil servants in India. He is sent off for a year's training to Madna, the hottest town in the country. Culture shock and a language barrier in his own country follows (August's mother tongue is Bengali). He feels like a foreigner, but must survive. He's surrounded by wild characters: Srivastava, the pompous head bureaucrat and his wife Malti, the fashion and cultural leader of the town; Sathe, a local pothead and cartoonist; Kumar, the Police Superintendent and connoisseur of porn films; and Vasant, the world's worst cook. August negotiates this provincial creek with the only paddle he can find; fantasy, daydreams and "self-abuse" become his means of revolt and escape as he escapes from the heat into the mystery and quiet of his secret world of erotic fantasy and contemplation.

In October 2012, widower and convenience mart owner Kunal Lahiri wishes to retire and bequeath his property in Queens to his three grown children, as New York City braces for Superstorm Sandy.

On the last night of her college freshman year, Izzy tries to lose her virginity with the help of her two best friends--but their only hope is getting into an exclusive, invite-only "Crush Party."

A slice of life - day after day - in Haifa, where Moshe and Didi's marriage is on the rocks, affairs are casual, and Moshe's angst about health, his parents, sex, communication, and business are pervasive and existential. Moshe's mother is Jewish, his father an Arab; his father may or may not sell ancestral land; his wife and mistress have lovers, one is a close friend; much of Moshe's surroundings seem under construction or in renovation. A cousin watches a security monitor without comment. Is there allegory in this portrait of an anxious Israeli approaching middle age?

Bombay-based Anu lives a wealthy lifestyle along with her businessman dad, Jaggu Kailashnath, and mom. While on a vacation at Ooty she meets with and falls in love with Vishal, who also lives in Bombay, and works as a photographer in 'Target' an agency where he is also a partner. Anu's dad approves of him and gets them both married. They live a fairly harmonious lifestyle which is shattered when Anu suspects Vishal of having an affair with Rosie. They do manage to patch-up but misunderstandings re-occur after Vishal finds out that he is being dog-trained, and that Anu maybe having an affair with a male named Ranjeet Mullick.