Tribe on Prime Video is your window into the world of high and mighty kids, their attitudes, their aspirations, their lifestyle and their other worldly problems. The series never pretends to be what it is not. It wears the label of being guilty of promoting nepotism just like Karan Johar wears it while promoting various star kids in his chat shows. But, not without entertainment. Once you are ready to immerse yourself in this world presented by some entitled kids, you are in for a joyous journey. Goofy but delightful.

The Tribe consists of Alana Pandey, Alfia Jaffrey, Alavia Jaffrey, Srishti Pore and Ariana Gandhi. All of them are guided by businessman Hardik Zaveri, who believes in many of his intuitive approaches and never shies away from investing money in them. But, as long as you are getting to see the good-looking faces, the luxurious mansions, the LA glamour, and the right to judge all these people as a viewer sitting in the comfort of your middle-class home, you shouldn’t care.

The series starts off with perfect Bollywood nooks. After all, it is produced by Karan Johar’s Dharmatic Entertainment. The first two episodes cover the star-studded wedding of Chikki Panday’s daughter and actor Ananya Panday’s younger cousin Alana. The wedding is full of sophisticated chaos: delays in the bride’s jewelery and legitimate concerns from the bride like ‘Oh my God, I don’t want cameras in my face while walking down the aisle’. But, you don’t mind all that glamorous drama as you will get to see Shah Rukh Khan joining in as one of the high-profile guests.

Right after the wedding, the series takes you to LA. There the drama increases manifold and before long, this Bigg Boss house becomes the home of cat fights. Everything is unrelated and irrelevant, but you don’t care. Paying attention to their hairstyle, makeup, and trendy outfits helps you ignore the fights. It’s okay, you know. Your world is different from theirs, and they somehow make you feel like you probably don’t even want to aspire to live on the other side of the wall with them. Just 20-something kids trying to convince you about their ‘struggles’. Everything is ok.

There’s Alana, newly married to Ivor, who is a total green signal. Actor Javed Jaffrey’s daughter Alavia is trying to make her father understand what she really does for a living, because for her and many like her, “impressing is not a real job”. There’s singer Ariana, who sometimes delights in being called ‘Ariana Grande’. Srishti is a real firecracker. She’s vivacious, quirky, knows the wrong things to say at bad times. What more could you want from a girl on a show like The Tribe? However, you want something more too, and you don’t realize it until you meet Alfia.

Producer Rumi Jaffrey’s daughter Alfia has had a past filled with failed marriages and mental health issues. And you get to see all this while playing at the forefront of the series. She may not have as many followers as others on the show, but her life is worth writing home about.

Alfia ensures that there is never a dull moment in the series. It’s been established that she’s no good for the ‘tribe’ that everyone is trying to create, but she’s absolutely what’s best for the show. As soon as he enters the story it’s all about him, his insecurities, his attitude and his emotional breakdown. But, it doesn’t matter to you. You put your money on Alfea, and become even more engrossed in the series.

Tribe kind of shows you the best of your world. It gives you many moments to enjoy the small joys in your life. Like eating home cooked food, time to chat with your family over a cup of tea, endless gossip with your work friend or sometimes even the lack of dressing sense. You start to value these small joys which possibly make your life more normal and happy. This doesn’t mean that the people living in the LA mansion aren’t unhappy or cut off from their families.

For the guys in The Tribe, success is having their faces engraved on a billboard in LA. For you, it’s probably about being able to enjoy the simple pleasures of life. And when you watch the show you appreciate them even more. There is no right or wrong way to live life here. For these women, if things are failing in LA, there is always an extra cushion in their Bandra homes to comfort them and provide them another opportunity to experiment. You probably don’t have that. The Tribe makes this very clear. Although this is a complete glorification of their first-world issues, it is also a mirror of where you are coming from. Perhaps a clear class divide, but still, you don’t mind it.

The tribe is not intended to be taken seriously. It’s a glossy, good-looking show, as real as the heroines in the movies who walk in chiffon sarees in the Swiss Alps and pretend not to be cold. You’re okay with it because that’s not who you are.