Read the toxic Mill and Boons? Or Judith McNaught? The thwarted duke, snubbed by the brave heroine who then loses all her intelligence and marries him even though he’s obnoxious to her and isn’t going to change his rakish ways?

Welcome to the Urdu televised version of the same, incredibly toxic romance novels. Meri Zindagi Hai Tu’s latest episodes this week, Episode 25 and 26, result in a marriage which Ayra’s (Hania Aamir) father does not agree to, but Ayra must, must do because she feels guilty. Why? Because rich hero Kamyar (Bilal Abbas) will kill himself in drunken, self-annihilating ways because he cant get over what happened to him. Ayra walks out on him, kicks him out of his house and he just cannot deal and also, yes, doesn’t want to marry Ayra. But marries her because she wants to marry her so that she can ‘save him’.

If you were expecting anything profound or thought-provoking to come out of this drama, please stop now because it isn’t. The drama is fluff, fun fluff at this point and it’s not meant to contribute anything to a better society. But the absolute trash that is Kamyar is just cringe-worthy. Why is it that we are still watching? Because let’s be honest, we do love the mindless toxic trash but its very important to understand that in real life, none of this is okay. 

It gets so much worse in Episode 26, when Fariha (Vardah Aziz) who Kamyar tried to murder by giving her fake pills, still picks up his phone and gets in a car with the guy who tried to murder her, who is drinking and driving and while driving, tells him that she wanted to go to a party with him. It’s too much and it doesn’t get much better.

And Ayra? She’ls being her sassy self with him, telling him off just as much as he tells her off and seeing how bad and dysfunctional his family dynamics are. Is she going to fix them? Of course, because bad boy-gone-good-boy-gone-bad-boy will turn good again.

It’s literally too much to handle so the strongest recommendation is to watch it, because the masala chemistry is really good but watch this care because you definitely don’t want to see anyone go through this incredibly toxic love story in real life.