Shaque: Trust No One Review
Director: Rensil D’Silva
Date Created: 2026-09-24 22:42
2.5
Shaque: Trust No One Review: Directed by Rensil D’Silva, the Netflix series stars Parineeti Chopra as Anvita, Jennifer Winget as Sakshi, Harleen Sethi as Shreya, Tahir Raj Bhasin as Alok, Soni Razdan as Madhu, Dhruv Choudhary as Ashok, Anup Soni as Officer Khurana and Sumeet Vyas as Bhaskar, and others. The series runs for seven episodes, with each episode lasting around 40 minutes.
Shaque: Trust No One Review
Netflix’s Shaque: Trust No One opens with a nightmare that Anvita has been trying to cope with for the past nine years. She has lost her baby daughter at a hospital, but instead of coming to terms with the loss, she holds on to the hope that one day her baby will return to her. The turning point in her life comes when she finds out a clue, which forces her to analyse the people surrounding her very carefully. Alok, her husband; Madhu, her mother-in-law; her friends; even her neighbours become suspects. The question is not who stole the baby, but what Anvita knows about these people.
In the Netflix Shaque: Trust No One series, the emotional condition of Anvita was far more intriguing than the mystery. Nine years is quite some time to have lived with mysteries, and Parineeti Chopra succeeds very well in bringing to the audience the effect that such an extended period of mourning had on a person. Anvita was not just a mother trying to solve a mystery; she was a person whose whole life had been defined by the absence of her child.
That is where Parineeti Chopra fits perfectly into the story for me. Her desperation adds the impetus that helps the series continue even after the mystery has become somewhat predictable. It was easy to see why Anvita persists even when those surrounding her encourage her, implicitly and explicitly, to let go of the issue. Her tenacity helps in understanding the somewhat dubious decisions made by the characters since they have been made by one who has struggled for years not to give up.
The problem was that the Netflix series Shaque just keeps on piling up more reasons for Anvita to suspect someone, when the storyline itself provides enough content. The series brings in adultery, surrogacy, which is against the law, black magic, murder, revenge, reading of cards and even a police officer who has cancer. Individually, many of these concepts may have provided some very good side stories. But together, I felt that the series kept opening up a new door without giving room to breathe to the old one.
This is also the reason for my conflicting emotions regarding the thriller genre. I have never been totally bored by any thriller because there is always something happening, something new waiting just around the corner. However, while being entertained is one thing, being really involved in the mystery is quite another. Eventually, I stopped worrying about solving the mystery of Anvita’s daughter and became interested in knowing how many additional twists would be introduced next.
This is detrimental to the secondary characters in the narrative. While Alok, Madhu, and Shreya can easily become integral elements of the emotional journey of Anvita, their roles in the story seem to be limited to that of pieces in the game of suspicion. Specifically, I wished for more significance to be given to Anvita’s relations in the story. With more attention given to why they matter to her initially, their betrayal and secret would have been felt much more poignantly.
With Jennifer Winget’s Sakshi’s entry into the storyline, things certainly become livelier. This lady does change the dynamics with respect to Anvita, and Winget is well aware of how she can play the character as a suspicious one without having to act all histrionic about it. However, the tracks of Tahir Raj Bhasin and Harleen Sethi also seem quite interesting; the show has squandered the opportunity there.
But the main problem for me is connected to the mystery. Netflix’s Shaque series expects me to doubt everybody all the time, but not always give me a reason to think that way again. The title says that nobody should be trusted, but the series does not hide anything at times. Some revelations only confirm what I thought about the characters before.
And that is disappointing, given that the core concept has plenty of strength behind it. A mother finding out that the people who should be closest to her could have been lying to her about certain issues has much more emotional weight behind it than just adding yet another twist to the story. And at times, the series comes very close to exploiting this concept, particularly in Anvita’s growing fatigue and paranoia.
Netflix Shaque: Trust No One Review: Summing Up
Overall, the 2026 Shaque series is an okay thriller compared to the mystery that it could have been. The acting, especially Parineeti Chopra’s emotionally charged performance as Anvita, provides the necessary core for the series. The seven episodes also keep the pace going, and it is good that the series never lets the plot completely drag. The problem, though, comes from the continuous creation of subplots.
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