Unorthodox is a power portrayal of a Jewish woman's escape from oppression

German-American drama Unorthodox is a powerful portrayal of a woman's escape from a community defined by religion, writes Veer Arjun Singh

A 19-year-old bride, Esther Shapiro (Esty), is going to make an irreligious exit from a marriage that is blatantly unequal. And leave behind a husband, a reluctant master, who is unwilling to question the religious confinement that is tearing them apart. Both of them are trapped. An eruv, a boundary wire, separates their Satmar Hasidic community in Williamsburg from the rest of New York, and the world. But Netflix’s Unorthodox, a German-American drama, is about a dashing escape of only one of them.

The mini-series is inspired by Deborah Feldman’s autobiographical account of breaking out of the ultra-orthodox Jewish settlement —