Review: ‘Bait’ — Riz Ahmed picks apart the showbiz industry, and himself

DUBAI: Riz Ahmed’s six-part Amazon series isn’t easily categorized. The first episode makes it seem like a straight-up, semi-autobiographical sitcom in the vein of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” — with an equally self-absorbed main character, a struggling British-Pakistani actor and sometime rapper called Shah Latif, played by the very-much-not-struggling actor and sometime rapper Ahmed, who is of British-Pakistani descent.