{ "id": "epdaxy7g0d", "slug": "eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love", "title": "Eternally Confused and Eager for Love", "updated": "2026-11-01", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted", "label": "Unscripted, reality, and web-native series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native", "label": "Web-native and streaming-original series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.indian_southasian_webseries", "label": "Indian and South Asian web series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.indian_southasian_webseries" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.indian_southasian_webseries.yr-2021-2025", "label": "Premiered 2021 to 2025", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.indian_southasian_webseries.yr-2021-2025" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.ind.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native", "label": "India · 2021 and later: Web-native and streaming-original series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.ind.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native", "path": [ { "id": "geo.ind", "label": "India", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.ind" }, { "id": "geo.ind.t2021", "label": "India · 2021 and later", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.ind.t2021" }, { "id": "geo.ind.t2021.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.ind.t2021.culture" }, { "id": "geo.ind.t2021.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.ind.t2021.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.ind.t2021.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.ind.t2021.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.ind.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.ind.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "geo.ind.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted", "label": "Unscripted, reality, and web-native series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.ind.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted" }, { "id": "geo.ind.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native", "label": "Web-native and streaming-original series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.ind.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Eternally Confused and Eager for Love is a 2022 Netflix Indian comedy series, Rahul Nair's debut, following awkward 24-year-old Ray (Vihaan Samat) and his imaginary wizard Wiz (Jim Sarbh's voice) through Mumbai dating mishaps.", "snippet": "Eternally Confused and Eager for Love is a 2022 Netflix Indian comedy series, Rahul Nair's debut, following awkward 24-year-old Ray (Vihaan Samat) and his imaginary wizard Wiz (Jim Sarbh's voice) through Mumbai dating mishaps.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.indian_southasian_webseries.yr-2021-2025", "markdown": "# Eternally Confused and Eager for Love\n\n**Eternally Confused and Eager for Love** is an Indian comedy series released on Netflix on March 18, 2022, created, written, and directed by Rahul Nair. Its eight episodes, each roughly 20 to 24 minutes long, follow Ray (Vihaan Samat), a socially awkward 24-year-old in Mumbai who navigates dating, work, and adulthood with the help of Wiz, an imaginary wizard voiced by [Jim Sarbh](https://www.edgepedia.org/jim-sarbh) who personifies Ray's inner voice.[1](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love) • [2](https://www.excelmovies.com/webseries/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love/) • [3](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/60760/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Premiere | March 18, 2022, exclusively on Netflix[1](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love) |\n| Format | 8-episode limited series, about 20 to 24 minutes per episode, in English[3](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/60760/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love) • [4](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/eternally_confused_and_eager_for_love) |\n| Creator | Rahul Nair, a first-time writer-director who developed the show while working on Excel productions[1](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love) • [5](https://www.platform-mag.com/film/rahul-nair.html) |\n| Production | The first joint series of Netflix, Tiger Baby, and Excel Entertainment[1](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love) |\n| Lead cast | Vihaan Samat (Ray), Jim Sarbh (voice of Wiz), Rahul Bose (Gaurav), Suchitra Pillai (Meena), Ankur Rathee (Varun), Dalai (Riya)[2](https://www.excelmovies.com/webseries/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love/) |\n| Reception | 63% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer from 8 reviews and 76% from audiences; 6.7/10 on IMDb from about 2,600 ratings[4](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/eternally_confused_and_eager_for_love) • [6](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18274188/ratings/) |\n| Status | Listed by TVmaze as \"To Be Determined,\" with no second season ordered as of its latest records[3](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/60760/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Premise\n\nRay has what the production company's synopsis calls a steady job, understanding parents, and a privileged home life, but he is ailed by a crisis of confidence. Socially awkward, nearly friendless, and low on self-esteem, he looks for love through setups arranged by his parents and friends and through a dating app, repeatedly sabotaging himself along the way.[2](https://www.excelmovies.com/webseries/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love/) • [7](https://www.theweek.in/theweek/leisure/2022/03/24/unlucky-in-love.html) Netflix's synopsis frames his quest as an attempt to work out whether he wants sex, love, or a relationship.[1](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love)\n\nThe series' central device is Wiz, a personification of Ray's inner voice who says what Ray cannot say out loud. Wiz appears physically only as objects: a keychain Ray carries everywhere, an action figure in his bedroom, a pencil sketch in his office cubicle, and a poster in his bathroom.[1](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love) • [8](https://www.indulgexpress.com/entertainment/cinema/2022/mar/24/dating-is-so-much-more-complicated-today-39773.html) Wiz alternates between hyping Ray up and delivering blunt assessments, at one point telling him he must sit with his feelings before he can work on them.[9](https://theprint.in/opinion/pov/why-millennials-are-relating-hard-to-netflix-indias-eternally-confused-eager-for-love/889829/)\n\nRay's circle includes his schoolmate Riya (Dalai) and his colleague Varun (Ankur Rathee), who try and fail to set him up; his parents Gaurav ([Rahul Bose](https://www.edgepedia.org/rahul-bose)) and Meena ([Suchitra Pillai](https://www.edgepedia.org/suchitra-pillai)) play peripheral roles.[7](https://www.theweek.in/theweek/leisure/2022/03/24/unlucky-in-love.html) • [10](https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love-review-flimsy-but-fun-for-the-most-part-2830398) The eight episodes carry titles such as \"Origin Story,\" \"Blind Date,\" and the finale \"Ray + Who? = Love,\" and each runs 20 to 24 minutes.[11](https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81197473)\n\n## Production\n\n**Rahul Nair's path to the show** ran through assistant work rather than a commission. He moved to Bombay (Mumbai) with his family at age two, studied film at New York University, and returned to India to work on *Ki & Ka*, *Rock On 2*, and other [Excel Entertainment](https://www.edgepedia.org/excel-entertainment) projects, including *Made in Heaven*. He wrote the first episode in 2016 and drafted the rest over about two years in his spare time, without expecting it to be produced. Toward the end of *Made in Heaven*'s main shoot, Excel asked if he wanted to make something, and he sent in the finished scripts.[5](https://www.platform-mag.com/film/rahul-nair.html)\n\nThe project became the first joint series of Netflix, Tiger Baby, and Excel Entertainment, with Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar, Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti, Kassim Jagmagia, Angad Dev Singh, and Zoya Parvin credited as executive producers.[1](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love) • [2](https://www.excelmovies.com/webseries/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love/) Netflix India's content vice president Monika Shergill described it at announcement as a \"complex and hilarious exploration of the dating lives of young adults\" from a debutant writer-director.[1](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love)\n\n**Casting** centered on Vihaan Samat, who had previously appeared in the Netflix series *Mismatched*. He was tested in early 2020 and received a callback only after the first COVID-19 lockdown. [Zoya Akhtar](https://www.edgepedia.org/zoya-akhtar) said Ray had to be \"immensely likable and charming\" while carrying \"that wicked insecurity and anxiety,\" and [Reema Kagti](https://www.edgepedia.org/reema-kagti) reported that his audition tapes stood out to everyone.[12](https://www.cinemaexpress.com/amp/story/hindi/interviews/2022/Mar/21/streaming-has-removed-barriers-freed-up-writing-zoya-and-farhan-akhtar-30407.html)\n\n## Reception\n\nCritical response was mixed to favorable. On Rotten Tomatoes the first season holds a 63% Tomatometer from 8 reviews and a 76% audience score from fewer than 50 ratings.[4](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/eternally_confused_and_eager_for_love) IMDb users gave the series 6.7 out of 10 from about 2,600 ratings, with individual episodes scoring between 7.2 and 7.9.[6](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18274188/ratings/)\n\nReviewers singled out Jim Sarbh's voice work. Rohan Naahar of *The Indian Express* rated the show 4 out of 5, calling Sarbh's performance the series' MVP and noting that, unlike the visualized Hormone Monsters of *[Big Mouth](https://www.edgepedia.org/big-mouth-american-tv-series)*, Sarbh had only his voice to rely on.[13](https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/web-series/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love-review-raunchy-new-netflix-show-is-jim-sarbh-7824039/lite/) Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV gave 2.5 out of 5, writing that Sarbh \"does not even have to be on the screen to radiate infectious energy\" while finding the series flimsy.[10](https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love-review-flimsy-but-fun-for-the-most-part-2830398) *The Week* was more negative, judging that the plot did not hold attention beyond the second episode.[7](https://www.theweek.in/theweek/leisure/2022/03/24/unlucky-in-love.html) A review in *The New Indian Express* found the title cumbersome and the chapter-like structure verbose, but allowed that the core story sustained a single-sitting watch.[14](https://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/review/2022/Apr/16/too-tedious-a-watch-2442107.html)\n\n**Commentary on the show's themes** focused on self-sabotage. Tina Das in *The Print* argued the series resonates because it depicts self-doubt and self-loathing directly, with Ray talking himself down even when things go well, and because nearly every character messes up without having the answers.[9](https://theprint.in/opinion/pov/why-millennials-are-relating-hard-to-netflix-indias-eternally-confused-eager-for-love/889829/) Common Sense Media described the show as a glimpse at one aspect of modern Indian culture through a universal concept.[15](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love)\n\n## Language and setting\n\nThe series is made entirely in English, which *The New Indian Express* noted restricts its market to a Delhi-Mumbai milieu in which drinking, clubbing, and one-night stands appear as everyday life without justification.[14](https://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/review/2022/Apr/16/too-tedious-a-watch-2442107.html) Netflix lists audio in English and Hindi with subtitles in Arabic, English, French, Hindi, Polish, and Ukrainian, and categorizes it as an offbeat, raunchy Indian romantic comedy limited series set in Mumbai.[11](https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81197473) The show carries a TV-MA rating in the United States.[4](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/eternally_confused_and_eager_for_love)\n\n## References\n\n1. [‘Eternally Confused and Eager for Love': Netflix, Excel Media and Tiger Baby bring Young Adult Dramedy to Audiences, About Netflix](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love)\n2. [Eternally Confused and Eager for Love, Excel Entertainment](https://www.excelmovies.com/webseries/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love/)\n3. [Eternally Confused and Eager for Love, TVmaze](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/60760/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love)\n4. [Eternally Confused and Eager for Love, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/eternally_confused_and_eager_for_love)\n5. [Rahul Nair, Platform Magazine](https://www.platform-mag.com/film/rahul-nair.html)\n6. [Eternally Confused and Eager for Love – Ratings, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18274188/ratings/)\n7. ['Eternally Confused And Eager For Love' fails to captivate, The Week](https://www.theweek.in/theweek/leisure/2022/03/24/unlucky-in-love.html)\n8. ['Dating is so much more complicated today', Indulge Express](https://www.indulgexpress.com/entertainment/cinema/2022/mar/24/dating-is-so-much-more-complicated-today-39773.html)\n9. [Why millennials are relating hard to Netflix India's 'Eternally Confused & Eager for Love', The Print](https://theprint.in/opinion/pov/why-millennials-are-relating-hard-to-netflix-indias-eternally-confused-eager-for-love/889829/)\n10. [Eternally Confused And Eager For Love Review: Flimsy But Fun For The Most Part, NDTV](https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love-review-flimsy-but-fun-for-the-most-part-2830398)\n11. [Watch Eternally Confused and Eager for Love, Netflix Official Site](https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81197473)\n12. [Streaming has removed barriers, freed up writing: Zoya and Farhan Akhtar, Cinema Express](https://www.cinemaexpress.com/amp/story/hindi/interviews/2022/Mar/21/streaming-has-removed-barriers-freed-up-writing-zoya-and-farhan-akhtar-30407.html)\n13. [Eternally Confused and Eager for Love review: Raunchy yet relatable new Netflix show is like Big Mouth with Bandra kids, The Indian Express](https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/web-series/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love-review-raunchy-new-netflix-show-is-jim-sarbh-7824039/lite/)\n14. [Too tedious a watch, The New Indian Express](https://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/review/2022/Apr/16/too-tedious-a-watch-2442107.html)\n15. [Eternally Confused and Eager for Love – Parents' Guide & TV Review, Common Sense Media](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Unscripted, reality, and web-native series › Web-native and streaming-original series › Indian and South Asian web series › Premiered 2021 to 2025*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n", "same_as": [], "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love", "markdown_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/eternally-confused-and-eager-for-love.md", "license": { "name": "Edgepedia Community License 1.0", "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license", "summary": "Free with credit, commercial use included. 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