Minor conflicts between young teens have exacerbated myriad Tv series, and they have now sautéed off along with Amazon mini Tv’s Crushed season 2. Crushed 2 is a mundane teen romantic comedy filled with crystalline pubescent infatuation, gullible handshakes and of course ‘love’ that persuaded enough even with soul-crushing school-life episodes.
While the first season latched on with eye-catching volatility between both the love birds, accompanied by doubts between Adhya and Samvidhan aka Rudhraksh Jaiswal for the former inadvertently handing one of her poems to a senior; S2 looks dispersed like a sudoku game on board, with no authentic hanger at the end.
Besides Adhya and Sam, the plotline (s2) also has another budding love story that gets compiles with complexities between Zoya aka Anupriya Caroli and Prateek aka Naman Jain. While at first, they feel their relationship a bit stretched upon, but eventually make their way throughout.
With S2’s dramatic array, we explore that Sam (this time Samarth aka Chirag Katrecha) and Adhya have among the finest chemistry. It’s also soothing to see a teen series keeping things platonic. Nonetheless, Zoya and Prateek’s story is also intimidating in its own right. The line also follows with Jasmine’s dilemma along with her heartbreak, after her ‘dreamboat’ senior rejects her. However, the series takes too long to get to its assertion, however, and it’s so bizarrely solemn when it does, that the memoir almost drifts through your thumbs.
Apart from the aforementioned, the series also has Arjun Deswal as Sahil, Manisha Mehra, Shubham Pandey, Sachin Singh, Narendra Panjwani, Kapil Tilhari, and Anuj Nayak make a nice powerful cast.
For the last straw, Crushed S2, directed by Mandar Kurundkar and Heena Dsouza is a high-on-life school drama that deals with teenage ‘highs and lows’. With a perfect memory montage in creation, the director not only treats the characters with utmost patience but also delicacy when it comes to their mental turmoil as they struggle to move on in life. Set up in the very base of Lucknow, we applaud the cinematographer to bring up a classic showdown of Lucknow’s setting in the series. What’s more, the not over-the-top‘ school uniforms’, and ‘a school-goer-like makeover’ bring the tiny subtleties of ‘school life’, making the drama series a relatable watch on the screen.
IWMBuzz rates it 3.5 stars.
