What Is the Story About?
Our protagonists Jaat, Ankit, Chirag and Rupesh have somehow passed their exams and now reached their second year. This creates a shift in dynamics that they have been eagerly waiting for – the ragging. While they still struggle through their studies and love life, these four friends find something even more valuable by the end of this semester – a stronger friendship.
Performances?
Nikhil Vijay’s slacker persona of Jhantoo gets more depth on screen and Nikhil does well to portray it on screen. Actually three out of four guys (Jhantoo, Chirag and Rupesh) get a much needed depth to their characters in this 4-episode season – and their actors rise well to the challenge. The series manages to shift the focus from Ankit this time around and puts it on all four characters and that change in dynamics works better.
Analysis
Digital content creator TVF continues to provide us with a goldmine of college-comedy gold – but it has as much realism as the first season of ‘Hostel Daze’ or the American college TV series ‘Blue Mountain State’. Which means over-the-top, ridiculously funny situations that will lead to comedy gold, which usually never happens in real life.
Unlike the first season, this season has only 4 episodes – which keeps the series compact and the script from lagging too much. And to some extent, this series manages to do that. Of course, the overly exaggerated characters and situations still happen, but they are set in more believable and nostalgic settings.
Each of the four episodes is themed as follows – Ragging, Bro-code/Sis-code, Hygiene (Or the lack of hygiene) and Holidays. While the ragging and hygiene portions are similar to the first season – it is overly glorified; the bro-code/sis-code and holiday parts of the series are more realistic to an extent, with the last episode (AKA the holiday portion) being quite heart-warming. The girls get more time on screen, and more character depth (with the limited screen time they have), while Chirag learns to swear & grows away from his high school friends and Jhantoo learns to be a better friend.
However, Swearing, Masturbation and Porn are still heavily talked about/ featured throughout the series, which may be one of the few realistic parts of the TV series that is still unnecessarily glorified similar to ragging in college. The show continues to be shallow and doesn’t apologize for its shamelessness – which is somewhat true about a group of unruly, horny college friends.
Overall, the second season of Hostel Daze is a slightly improved version of the first. The TV series doesn’t apologize about the ragging and lack of hygiene situations – in fact, the second season shamelessly promotes it. However, there are more realistic scenarios this time around with the main and side characters getting more depth. The fourth-wall breaking remains funny (in a dark humor sense).
Other Artists?
Ayushi Gupta and Ahsaas Channa are funny and get more to do during this season (compared to the previous one). They shine during the few scenes that they are in and it is funny to see some of the situations they end up in. The actors who portray fourth wall breaking characters are quite funny too.
Music and Other Departments?
Vaibhav Bandhoo does good work as the composer this time around as well. The writers have done some better work this time, with the dialogue and more believable funny college situations. Director duo Amir Musanna and Sangram Naiksatam directed all four episodes together and they manage to bring a little magic onscreen.
Highlights?
Dialogue
Luv Vispute’s Performance
More Character Depth
Drawbacks?
Unrealistic Adults
Unbelievable College Situations
Did I Enjoy It?
Yes. To An Extent
Will You Recommend It?
If you are looking for something funny to take your mind off things, then this is the show (and season) for you.
Hostel Daze Season 2 Review by Binged Bureau
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