Tamil web series Topless takes a story about women, honour and makes it about the absurdities of men

The one thing that makes Topless, a Zee5 web series, work is that it’s through and through absurdist: There is no meaning, morality, purpose, or even order in its universe. *** In the middle of Episode 3 — titled ‘Wrong Hole’ — minister Kalki is at a TV studio to discuss his new policy for women’s safety: A dress code for women. The one thing that makes Topless work is that it’s through and through absurdist: There is no meaning, morality, purpose, or even order in its universe. In using the past to merely explain the present conundrum, the series makes the mistake ignoring ideas of intersectionality of caste, consent etc, which could have starkly thrown light on today’s absurdities.