Little Things Season 2 is all things love and so much more. Here's Why!!

“Because while everything around you is changing, you should be happy to know that there are a few things that remain constant. And it’s important because these constants are comforting”. 

The words resonated with my seemingly-flawless life comprising occasional bouts of agony that is conveniently consigned to my constants (family and friends) back in India on a recurrent basis. This dispatch of emotions, is not just reassuring, it is also remarkably liberating. (Whatever it takes to keep my sanity intact)

Little Things season 2! You had me at episode 1. 

As an Indian you must be living under a rock, if you’re unaware of Internet’s most loved couple, Dhruv (Dhruv Sehgal) and Kavya (Mithila Palkar) from what can be pertinently catalogued into the list of one of the best Indian Shows on OTT platforms.

Captivating yet engaging right from the first episode of Season 1, the massively indulgent chronicles of Dhruv and Kavya seamlessly woven into a series of five episodes whetted the audience’s appetite for more. A subsequent season was plainly inevitable and highly awaited at the same time, capitalizing on which Netflix India acquired the rights and re-branded it as a Netflix Original. As cliched it may sound, season 2 was bigger (quite literally) and better. Despite not being a big-time binge watcher, I watched the second season from start to finish and there was no bigger opportunity cost of spending a Saturday Night.

Season one’s epilogue doesn’t characterize a point of commencement for season 2, yet the culmination of their honeymoon phase doesn’t draw curtains on the couple’s adventure. And mind you! these aren’t the let’s make love under the stars kind of antics routinely affiliated to young couples in their twenties, the perpetually evolving dynamics of their relationship is articulately embodied in, Little Things of life. Akin to most millennial, there're coming off age and it is relatable AF!

Now, as an independent woman with an incredible support network around, I’ve never felt the need to carve out a space for companionship barring a few occasionally misguided indulgences in rom-coms. But this one ordinary story embellished with slices of life, fabricated a fascination to falling in a quotidian version of love.

What works for the series and particularly season 2 is how effortlessly it is deprived of extravagant theatrics, augmented by the promises of a happily ever after. Indelibly seizing the elementary exploits of life, their bite-sized crusades stimulate the bigger ship in picture. In all the eight episodes, nothing is dramatized enough to make it seem out of the ordinary significantly resulting in a creation that is by all means, Extraordinary! 

The conflicts arising while Kavya is manning the house while Dhruv is struggling to get his professional life in place sometimes seem long drawn out and stretched. But don’t we all uproot closet skeletons at our utmost worst.

He is content with his complacency, she is chasing mobility. They fall apart, pick themselves up and grow together, as individuals and as a couple. I was particularly impressed in one of the episodes where Kavya on one of her work trips meets a travel enthusiast and starts doubting if she could do better than Dhruv. And when she enlightens him of  her conflicts over dinner table, in an unprecedented scene on any Indian Show, he sits her down and explains how there’s always someone better but what matters at the end of the day is despite the differences how well they click together as a unit. As they say- Communication is the Key!! This and several other moments feel like a conversation you desperately want to be part of.

Amalgamating an assortment of the obvious and the not-so-obvious teensy bits of life, they deal with the greys and pound over the rough terrains towards a tantalizing journey encompassing self-discovery and love. 

Side note to all the boys I’ve loved before (which is barely any) and All the boys I’ll love in the future (if time permits), Uncomfortable conversations can be intimidating BUT as the characters in Little Things put it- Uncomfortable baton se hi toh comfort badhta hai.