Web Series Review | Cubicles – FilmyVoice
The title ‘Cubicles’, instantly transports your thoughts to the workplace maze, which is arguably probably the most loathed of all workplace layouts. It conjures up pictures of dread, drudgery, together with a dictatorial boss on the helm. Such preconceptions are correct, and analysis reveals that the cubicles – have a tendency to cut back worker morale and productiveness. It’s also a spot the place battle thrives.
However in contrast to the above-mentioned preconceived notion, this temporary five-episode sequence, narrated via Piyush Prakapati’s viewpoint, who’s now just about settled on the IT agency, Synotech, takes off from the place it left in its season one. It tackles the very actual sorts of dynamics that you just’ll discover in an workplace, and particularly, that offers with IT.
The primary episode begins with Piyush having Monday blues, and whereas at workplace, he settles into his cubicle together with his colleagues Gautam and Naveen Shetty, Sunaina joins them as their new colleague. She is aggressive and ruthlessly aggressive, in contrast to the others sharing the cubicle. How they co-exist and Piyush rises the ranks within the organisation varieties the crux of the season.
The episodes that observe take care of some “quarter-life crises” and workplace crises, particularly a code going awry. Then the plot provides us an perception into how, “You may twist the statistics, however not the real-life details”. It’s throughout his second of frustration, Piyush tenders his resignation however repents after he sends the e-mail to his boss. How he will get out of the sticky scenario varieties the crux of the third episode.
The fourth episode titled, ‘The Pink Slip’ is filled with pent-up feelings that floor unexpectedly, and the final episode particularly tells us, “Life is all in regards to the selections one makes”.
Every character within the sequence is nicely etched. With particular traits, the characters dive into the complicated points in the way in which they deserve. The script of the sequence is clear and taut. The plot doesn’t digress into the private lives of its characters past the workplace house. Additionally, it doesn’t delve into messy, difficult intra-office relationship points.
Regardless of a few of the particulars being a bit of too cliched and a bit too on the nostril at instances, particularly in the way in which the organisation is offered, the writing is pretty balanced when depicting interpersonal workplace relationships and the employer-employee equation.
On the efficiency entrance, many of the actors ship easy, down-to-earth performances, however it’s Jaimini Pathak, who stands out together with his understated, and emotionally packed supply within the fourth episode.
General, whereas the sequence doesn’t boast of any over-the-top dramatic graph there’s something very relatable about this sequence that makes it value a watch.
–By Troy Ribeiro
Net Sequence: Cubicles – Season 2
Director: Chaitanya Kumbhakonum
Solid: Abhishek Chauhan, Badri Chavan, Shivankit Parihar, Jaimini Pathak, Niketan Sharma, Khushbu Baid, Ayushi Gupta, Nidhi Bisht, Ashish Gupta
Streaming on: Sony LIV
Length: half-hour per episode
