India, July 11 -- Mainstream movies and shows are so obsessed with the cutesy idea of first romance and love at first sight that rarely do we get a look at what happens after two people decide to spend their lives together. In the Indian set-up, the chaos is infinite and inexcusable. Four Years Later, the new Indo-Australian show streaming on Lionsgate Play, takes a mature and patient look at this very idea- where two people give their love a chance, and try to make their marriage work. Spread over eight episodes, Four Years Later is beautiful, resonant and occasionally exhausting- but that's exactly the point.

It starts off wonderfully. In Jaipur, Sridevi (Shahana Goswami) has given in to her mother's pestering for marriage for once, an...