This is exactly what I mean by manipulative writing. If you are going to unfold the story as though Kuhu drugged the coffee on purpose, why not just have her do it? Same with Kunal -- the fact that he took the drink back from Nishant never came into the picture, so why bother giving him that tiny glimmer of hesitation?
Kuhu and Kunal mostly, but also characters like Jasmeet, Meenu, and Nishant are repeatedly used to make the leads look like victims and underdogs, when they are simply not. The reason they leave that moral wiggle room is so they can be easily "redeemed" and then betray the leads all over again and repeat the cycle. In a weird meta sense, it's like Kuhu and Kunal have to work as plot devices in the leads' relationship in order to earn their own little bits of story.
If they genuinely wanted to deal with Kuhu and Mishti's fraught relationship -- even with the usual extra leeway for Mishti -- they could have just shown Kuhu continuing her pettiness after the mandap. After Mishti excluded her from the pooja, have Kuhu undercut her and go straight to Abir. Abir is so used to taking Kuhu's ideas for these things, and doesn't believe Mishti capable of jealousy, so he wouldn't suspect that this would bother her at all. Show various instances of Kuhu using her existing leverage with the RVs to shut Mishti out. You still show Kuhu in a negative light, struggling with her flaws, but without making her mistakes life or death.
The fact that they immediately fell back on saazish says a lot about who this show is written for -- an audience who wants high-stakes, life or death scenarios on the daily and isn't much concerned with long-term development of characters. That they managed to sneak the characterisation in that they did for Kunal and Kuhu still surprises me!
Rant over... for now. Disclaimer: I haven't watched the episode and probably won't watch anything other than the Kuku scene. 😛
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