Bullet Point Review: TVF’s ‘Tripling S02’

• Tripling’s second season doesn’t quite start from where it was left off, and neither does it answer the questions that we were left with. Instead, this (much awaited) season starts out with a throwback to one of the famous scenes from the previous season, where Chitvan plays the popular Mada Faqa song in front of Chanchal’s royal household. It made me smile and I remembered why I was really looking forward to watching this new season. But then, so many more of these throwbacks follow, that at one point this season just seems to have been written to call out how good the previous season was.
• Chandan (Sumeet Vyas) is now a famous author, whose book is based on the trio’s road trip from the first season. (His book is not so subtly used to keep reverting the dialogues and punchlines to those of the first season.) Though a bestseller, its content causes trouble for Chanchal (Maanvi Gagroo) and her royal in-laws.
• Chitvan is the same fun, lovable dork and Amol Parashar is earnest and does the heavy lifting for the most part of the show.
• Nidhi Bisht’s Bhabhisa sticks out like a sore thumb. Her character seems to have walked in from one of TVF’s sketches on Ekta Kapoor’s serials. Seriously though, we are watching these web-series to escape from the stale soaps on T.V., so why this unimaginative interpretation of her character?

• The major deviation that this season takes, is that this time, the road trip is more contrived. Of course, I went into it expecting one, but the reason for it didn’t really work for me. Also, the salient feature of the first season was its unpredictability. Neither we, nor the characters knew where they were heading, and what was going to happen. This season’s carefully formulated, a city per episode screenplay, must have on paper seemed like a smooth ride, but in reality, was an uninteresting one.

You can read the review of Season 01 here.