Kota Factory Season 1 was brilliant simply because it was relatable even to non-Kota crowd. Season 2, though more truthful to reality, was too inconvenient for them.

I was a bit surprised at the criticism hurled by professional critics at the second season of TVF’s web series Kota Factory because I binge-watched it and at the end of episode 5, when I tried clicking ‘next’, to my disappointment, I realised it was the finale of the season. This is not to say that the sequel was as good as the pilot. There was definitely a lingering feeling of something important missing from it.
Maybe it was because the show focused too much on developing character arc of its two main protagonists - Vaibhav and Jeetu bhaiya - and forgot about everyone else, especially the three females who received little to no attention even after proving their acting abilities and doing more than justice to their characters in the first season.
Or maybe it was because the show felt perfect in parts but not in its entirety and we know that the whole is greater than the sum of parts. It’s cinematic brilliance shows when scene fades from colour to its quintessential black and white mode as Maheshwari Sir paints a stunningly doomsday scenario and talks to the students as if he is not delivering a lecture at an orientation class but as an army general leading his soldiers into a war.
Similarly, one can’t help appreciate the creative geniuses of the director and writers looking at the final scene where your eyes are fixed at the Big Bang posters of IITJEE Rank 1 holder while the ambulance siren of those who gave into the pressure and commit suicide pierces your ears. There are more such instances but one feels the overall storyline lacking heart and soul.
it was because that the show was preachy. No doubt that the TVF team has great talent but they are yet to reach the artistic heights of the likes of Aaron Sorkin, the only playwright and screenwriter I know who can pull off extremely preachy gyaan with such finesse like a magician does his tricks.