User Reviews

SEASON 2

The second season begins with a tired and exhausted Piyush, perhaps reflecting the state of mind of the writers who wrote this season without the enthusiasm they had for the first season. Over the years, I have come to the realization that TVF has never had any intentions of making a second season of any show. All the shows made by TVF are basically movies cut into five parts, with the length of each episode depending upon the budget in hand. Cubicles is no exception. This season is more like the lighter version of the first season.

Amit Golani is missing from the writer's team this season, and surprisingly TVF hasn't even credited him as the creator of the show, or the one who provided the original story, unlike the first season. Clearly the break up that took place last year between TVF and some key members (which included Amit Golani) was a pretty bad one. Thankfully, Nidhi Bisht was retained as the extremely endearing Megha Asthana, but her role this season was more of an extended cameo unfortunately.

A very interesting character was introduced this season, RDX played by the impeccable Jaimini Pathak, but somehow I felt that his character wasn't developed properly, and was given a very abrupt ending. Jaimini Pathak's acting was of the highest quality as usual, the song played at his exit was beautiful, I just wish his character was integrated in a better way to the show and was given some more screen time and interaction with Piyush. By now it's quite clear, that TVF loves to makes shows that belong to the genre mastered by Rajkumar Hirani, feel good, slice of life, emotional and inspirational. The fourth episode of this season is the one that ticks all those boxes. Jaimini Pathak is a gem of an actor and his presence made that episode extremely beautiful and memorable. We definitely need more of him as an actor.

Ayushi Gupta is another new addition this season, known for playing Nabomita in TVF's Hostel Daze. She has been given a meatier role (as compared to Jaimini) and acts as the catalyst of this season portraying a cold blooded employee who doesn't shy away from pulling the rug from under a colleague's feet or throwing them under a bus as long as it benefits her. The writers have very cleverly inserted her character as a metaphorical representation of the cut throat competition that exists in the corporate world. Ayushi Gupta has done a pretty good job in this season and holds a lot of promise as an actress. Another good aspect of her role is that it wasn't limited to being a romantic interest, the top priority of her life was always shown to be her career. Now that is not something we normally expect to happen every time a female character shows up in a series, that's how stereotyped girls have become in our movies and shows.

One of the most notable underwhelming aspect of this season was that Shivankit Singh Parihar didn't have a lot to do. Angad Waghmare remains a mute spectator watching the proceedings for almost the entirety of this season, and even the episode that was centered on him, somewhat, was pretty much the same as the one we saw in Season 1, except that this one makes no impact on the viewer. Shivankit Singh Parihar is a special talent, its high time TVF makes a show with him playing the lead. He has played way too many side characters now, I strongly believe that he deserves better, much better than this.

Abhishek Chauhan continues to be the best thing about this show. Piyush Prajapati is very well written character who is realistic and relatable and has been personified beautifully by Abhishek. His character has matured a lot since the last season, so from being an emotional mess at the start of last season, he has reached a point where he finds himself in a position where he can motivate others and help them fix their life. TVF has always managed to find good actors, and Abhishek Chauhan is no exception. We all see ourselves in him, everything that he aspires for is something that we all want, he is the good guy that we all want to be.

Cubicles continues to be a feel good show that has likeable characters battling it out for survival in a corporate environment, a concept most of us can relate to. There is no over the top acting or unnecessary melodrama, everything remains subtle and real. What this season lacks though are some memorable scenes and dialogues that were there in plenty in the first season. The music for this season has been given by Anurag Saikia, and it's good, but the songs of the first season composed by Karthik Rao were truly special. In conclusion, second season of Cubicles is not as good as the first one but that should not stop anyone from watching it. It remains an easy watch, something everyone can enjoy. As a suggestion I would definitely like to say that 'The Viral Fever' (TVF) needs to move on from making just slice of life and feel good shows, they need to stop hovering over and go deep into the surface. They really need to start exploring other kind of stories and make a full length show that not only goes on for 10 episodes but also offers a real scope of making multiple seasons of it.

I am a fan of TVF and its content because they create real and close to reality content, but this series is extremely unreal and too much like a fairy-tale. Neither a fresher is like this, nor a manager, not teams, nor teammates, not the house they live in and not even HR. This is way too unrealistic.

Great with story-telling, direction, photography, acting that can make kids love this series but honestly, not real. For example, a series named Silicon Valley, mixed with high end technical knowledge, challenges, comedy and probably everything real managed to get 8.5/10 IMDB rating globally and on the other hand, this web series barely used any technical terms, challenges and projected things coated in sugar. TVF is known for a great content, but unfortunately, this is not a series worth 9 or 10.

TVF again impresses with it's effective,present generation,common middle class person content. You woudl be so attached to this series specially if you had just started a job. It's just a pure talent of TVf team how they can convert a simple daily observations into a beautiful story. How this series gives you tiny lessons are just a piece of wonder like a dialogue " there is word end in word Friend".