Gobhir Joler Maach Season 2 Review: Convoluted Storyline Doesn’t Get Better

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After the first season, we get deeper into Chandrima’s plans and uncover that Tirtha and the other husbands had started this twisted game long back trying to test their wives’ fidelity. Faced with consequences in the present, things get more and more complicated as people turn up dead.

This show is so weird. After bringing forth a bafflingly stupid storyline in the last season, we double down this season with the husbands starting this odd bet to test their wives’ loyalty and falling flat on their faces, giving birth to another web of lies and deceit with literally no logic. It’s the characters who are the most baffling, with twists and turns coming out of right and left but none sticking because they feel so ingenuine and forced. You know this series is trying to milk the tabboos of friends and their husbands cheating on each other and then acting holier than thou when caught.

Now, I get it – that’s the point. These are morally corrupt characters whose selfishness and cocky attitude is what gets them in trouble. However, you have to make them believable in a way. I am all for dubious stories that discuss tabboo subjects because they are the realities of life but there has to be a limit to the number of times characters say “let’s play a game” in series without it becoming ironical. It gets silly after a while, more so because the game that they are talking about is extremely convoluted and unbelievable, even without the fear of death dancing over their heads.

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The problem with series such as these is that they think that they are the smartest one in the room – it’s the overconfidence that is the turn off. As I mentioned in the last review as well, the characters and their cocky attitudes are so distracting and vile that you can’t sympathise or relate to them in any way. The men are no better but for some reason try to portray themselves as better than their wives. The word “characterless” is thrown around a lot but both the sexes don’t go through the unheavals of a betrayal equally. The murder plot is unnecessary and thus mostly forgotten and when the fear of death is mentioned you groan and wonder why this extra twist is necessary.

However, I will say that the unnecessary murder plot is the most interesting out of the rubbish that is the twisted cheating scandal. That’s an odd thing to say, I agree, but you have to find the better things in the midst of a show that doesn’t seem to have a purpose. The “match the following” game, as Inspector Dhiman puts it, gets old fast, more so because there is no character arc whatsoever, neither is there a story arc. The rest of the story is spent trying to figure out which of these dishonerable people (of both sexes, I judge everyone) is going on a killing spree.

In the end, Gobhir Joler Maach is a series for gossip lovers who want something delicious and juicy to watch without spending too much time to break anything down. And just when you were getting interested in the gossip and trying to find the source, unfortunately, just like other similar shows of the streaming service, you get another dead body and an unfinished answer, making you wait for the next set of ideas to pop in the creators’ heads.

Gobhir Joler Maach Season 2 Review: Final Thoughts

There’s not much to watch when it comes to this series because it follows the tried and tested path of Indu and other shows and delivers something confusing and truly forgettable. And, just when you were getting addicted to the unnecessary drama and wild situations with zero morality, you would be forced to wait for months to find an answer that has been teased from the first season but, of course, without any guarantees.

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