Engga Hostel

Watching the first two episodes I was very underwhelmed, the ragging scenes & porn scenes are mildly engaging. Too many bad words, I know it's a show about hostel & college but overuse of cursing could have been avoided.

But Episodes 3,4 & 5 were just so engaging, felt so bad for Senthil at the end, going out of the way to help people and feeling used is something I truly relate with.

Pandi was just too good, his Madurai slang and his counters to each and every situation was extremely hilarious, the scenes of him & Senthil dressed as cupids were fun.

Ahana & Raja were a delight to watch, their initial conflicts, hatred to a lovely friendship was so connecting. The love triangle story was handled so well.

Ajay was such an empathetic character, story revolves mostly around him and he has done complete justice to it.

I could rate this show 10/10 but the first two episodes brought down my rating to 8/10.

Looking so forward to Season 2.

Took me a lot of time to finish Episode 1,had to pause start and again pause since I could not connect initially. Had the same problem in Episode 2 but the Girls Hostel saved it.

The main problem I found with the first 2 episodes were that they concentrated more on ragging and porn than the actual characters. There is so much potential in each and every character, that's good writing on the characters but their development was shunted by ragging and porn.

But Episodes 3 4 5 were brilliant, it concentrated more on the characters rather than following the troupes of love, birthday and exams, the screenplay brilliantly used the above troupes to develop the characters.

I would go with 8/10.

Engga Hostel is a adult comedy genre web series which launches TVF's tamil debut. The series stars a complete set of new actors.

Positives:

This series is strictly for those who like American Sitcoms. For regular cinema go-ers this series will not work.

The actors performance is delightful and they are very convincing as well as a promising debuts from the new comers

A very good production value from Prime Video

This is a technically strong series

Sendhil character's writing and acting is the biggest positive for this series

Negatives:

Repetative scenes Chittapu character is extremely annoying.

Poor direction Humor could have worked well The creators are stuck in a complex whether to make it a pure adult comedy or not which makes most scenes flat

Verdict:

A watchable fun series which could have been better. Hostel Daze is btr but this ain't bad.

Rating: 3/5.

I almost gave up on this show and called it quits but one my friends insisted me to watch the 3rd episode so I gave the show a second chance 2 days later and it was like a completely different show.

The characters started developing very well from the 3rd episode and reached a well written finale,don't know why they couldn't follow the same flow in the first two episodes.

First two episodes were so badly written with an excellent cast at hand,the girls ragging and proposing to another girl was a complete snooze fest,ragging was too stretched out & felt tiring to a point that I had to fast forward. On comparison the second episode was better but not on par with the last 3 episodes.

If you want to watch this series, skip the first two episodes,you wouldn't be missing much.

Episode 1 (6.5/10) Started off well and ended well but the ragging scenes were too much.

Episode 2 (7.5/10) Too much focus on Ajay's identity, others identity was just brushed upon but not showing porn and having a discussion around it is really commendable especially the Girls discussion.

Episode 3 (10/10) Best episode of the series, started off & progressed as very cliched romance but the twist was brilliant with a superb ending 👏.

Episode 4 (9/10) Highly entertaining episode with characters developing even more, this episode had fun, emotions and very relatable situations 👌.

Episode 5 (9.5/10) A superb finale with well played out conflicts that sets the tone for Season 2 👍.

Special Mention : The character arc of Chang was subtle and brilliantly done, so much characters vying to get our attention, credits to the Writers and Director for this 🙌.