Chai After Dark
📺 TV and pop culture by Sameem (Sam) 👨🏽💻& Shabnam (ST) 👩🏽⚖️• Californians of South Asian descent working in tech
Chai After Dark
Show overview
Chai After Dark has been publishing since 2024, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 122 episodes, alongside 17 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 110 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence, with the show now in its 5th season.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 47 min and 1h 3m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. Roughly 38% of episodes carry an explicit flag from the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language TV & Film show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 16 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 76 episodes published.
From the publisher
Meet Chai After Dark, your go-to podcast for TV and pop culture recaps! This unique show stands apart from traditional recap podcasts by highlighting humorous South Asian-adjacent commentary for stories from all over the world. Sameem and Shabnam, also of South Asian descent, celebrate these stories, but are unafraid to say it as they see it. chaiafterdark.substack.com
Latest Episodes
View all 122 episodesTraitors Ep 1-4 & Spotlight on Michael Foote
Cornell 7: Our Pivot From The Love Hypothesis
Best of The Best: Controversy, Identity, and Representation
Pacita Abad: Immigration, Art and the Power of Women
The AI Doc, Hugging Face and Mass AI Hysteria
Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Sn5
Teenage Wasteland
Adults Season 2
The Unnamed w/ M.S. Masood & The End Goal Pod
Mustache w/ Imran J. Khan
Appropriation Or Appreciation, Sari Not Sorry
The Valley S 3 w/ The Reality Is Pod
House of Stassi Pt 2 w/ Reality Bio
House of Stassi Pt 1 w/ Reality Bio
Murder 101
The Odyssey
S1 Ep 6Parwarish E16-18: Pakistani Drama on ARY Digital/YouTube
ESameem and Shabnam continue their watch of the 2025 hit Pakistani drama, “Parwarish”, found on ARY Digital and YouTube! Watch it now here.Today’s episode gets a little too serious with JB propositioning his mom to talk to his brother so he can LOCK IN his brother’s daughter for his son, Wali. Calm down, JB. Follow us below and please like, share and subscribe!Instagram: ChaiAfterDarkTiktok: Chai_After_DarkFacebook: Chai After Dark PodcastOr contact us at [email protected]; we always respond! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chaiafterdark.substack.com/subscribe
S1 Ep 5Parwarish E13-15: Pakistani Drama on ARY Digital/YouTube
ESameem and Shabnam continue their watch of the 2025 hit Pakistani drama, “Parwarish”, found on ARY Digital and YouTube! Watch it now here.Today’s episode covers Episodes 13-15 and stars Samar Abbas Jafri as “Wali” (without the D) and Aina Asif as “Maya”.The drama escalates into Maya two timing dating Wali AND Waleed, crazy pressure from South Asian dads and uncles without b*lls when it comes to Dadi Jaan’s. Follow us below and please like, share and subscribe!Instagram: ChaiAfterDarkTiktok: Chai_After_DarkFacebook: Chai After Dark PodcastOr contact us at [email protected]; we always respond! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chaiafterdark.substack.com/subscribe
S1 Ep 4Parwarish E10-12: Pakistani Drama on ARY Digital/YouTube
We are joined by Dr. Huma Qureshi, MD, Psychiatrist Extraordinaire! She is a graduate of King Edward Medical University in Lahore so she definitely knows what a “center” is. Come listen as we discuss Wali’s aura, how being a doctor actually is in Pakistan and we learn even more new Urdu words. Dr Huma is also a board member at JiVA South Asian Mental Health. Please consider donating and learning more at https://www.jivamentalhealth.com. We continue our watch of the 2025 hit Pakistani drama, “Parwarish”, found on ARY Digital and YouTube! Watch it now here.Today’s episode covers Episodes 10-12 and stars Samar Abbas Jafri as “Wali” (without the D) and Aina Asif as “Maya”. Follow us below and please like, share and subscribe!Instagram: ChaiAfterDarkTiktok: Chai_After_DarkFacebook: Chai After Dark PodcastOr contact us at [email protected]; we always respond! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chaiafterdark.substack.com/subscribe
S1 Ep 3Parwarish E7-9: Pakistani Drama on ARY Digital/YouTube
EShabnam and Sameem continue their watch of the 2025 hit Pakistani drama, “Parwarish”, found on ARY Digital and YouTube! Watch it now here.This episode covers Episodes 7-9 and stars Samar Abbas Jafri as “Wali” and Aina Asif as “Maya”.Ok, anger issues aside; Wali is now charged with thieving and stealing his own family’s motorcycle and Sameer does his best khuta (dog) barking impression. Maya starts to choose from Waleed and Wali; but we think there’s a dark horse candidate for Wali’s love. Listen to find out who! Email us at [email protected] to yell at us if we said anything crazy please and sorry in advance. Follow us below and please like, share and subscribe!Instagram: ChaiAfterDarkTiktok: Chai_After_DarkFacebook: Chai After Dark PodcastOr contact us at [email protected]; we always respond! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chaiafterdark.substack.com/subscribe