My moms tells quite a funny joke about cinema from Kerala.
Imagine a typical climax scene in a Indian move, the hero is standing on one side and there are two villains on the other. One of the villains has got a gun and is going to shoot the hero.
If this is a tamil movie and the hero is rajinikant, he will put his hand up as the bullet comes towards him. This will cause the bullet to split into two and each half will take a U-turn and go and hit the villians and kill them. All ends well and there is a beautiful song by A R Rahman that we can hum to.
If this is hindi movie, the hero will make a speech about how "mere pass maa hai". Then as the villain shoots the evil uncle who until then has been acting against the hero will jump in front of the bullet and save the hero as an act of repentance. Again, all ends well and maybe there is a Badshah song at the end that we can all dance to.
If this is a malayalee movie, the second villlian will rape the hero's sister and she will commit suicide, the mother will die of cancer, the hero's girlfriend will marry the villain or his brother and then the villain will shoot and kill the hero. The end.
As a person of Malayalee origin I feel well equipped to watch this serial. Bring it on.