A MESSAGE TO EVERYONE Watching and / or REVIEWING LOCK UPP SEASON 2 Before you make another review of Lock Upp Season 2, do yourselves and your audience a favour—watch Splitsvilla first.
A MESSAGE TO EVERYONE REVIEWING LOCK UPP SEASON 2
Before you make another review of Lock Upp Season 2, do yourselves and your audience a favour—watch Splitsvilla first.
I’m sorry, but if you’ve never watched Splitsvilla and you’re reviewing this season, you’re reviewing only half the story. That is simply not fair to your audience.
Every second review I hear is:
“Why is everyone calling Yogesh a cheater?”
“People should move on.”
“Everyone cheats.”
“Why are they only targeting him?”
No.
You’re completely missing the point.
This was never just about cheating.
Yes, cheating is unfortunately common in our society. That doesn’t make it right, but sadly it happens every day. If cheating alone were the issue, people would have forgotten about it months ago.
The reason people haven’t moved on is because of everything that happened AFTER the cheating.
The gaslighting.
The victim blaming.
The constant attempts to make Ruru look like the problem.
The defending of behaviour that many viewers found completely unacceptable.
That is why people still react the way they do today.
And that’s exactly why Yogesh keeps getting called a cheater.
Not because people have short memories.
Because people have long memories when they feel someone was never held accountable.
The screenshot I’m attaching explains this better than I ever could.
Look at Ruru’s face.
That wasn’t someone crying because of a reality show task.
For many viewers, that became the face of someone who felt betrayed, blamed and emotionally broken while everyone around her tried to justify what had happened.
Now look at the caption.
The person isn’t celebrating someone else’s pain for entertainment. They’re saying something much deeper:
Sometimes the tears of the person facing consequences simply don’t outweigh the pain of the person who lived through the consequences of their actions.
That is the context you are missing.
So when you sit there saying,
“Poor Yogesh.”
“People should stop calling him a cheater.”
Please understand why thousands of viewers disagree.
And while we’re at it…
Akanksha and Yogesh are arguably the biggest talking points of this season. Their entire journey comes with baggage from Splitsvilla. Ignoring that baggage and then reviewing Lock Upp as though these contestants walked in with a clean slate is poor analysis.
You don’t have to like Splitsvilla.
You don’t have to enjoy dating reality shows.
You don’t even have to finish the season.
But if you’re reviewing Lock Upp without understanding one of the biggest stories that shaped two of its main contestants, you’re missing crucial context—and your audience deserves better than that.
I’m not asking anyone to hate Yogesh.
I’m asking reviewers to educate themselves before forming opinions.
Watch what happened.
Watch the finale.
Watch the aftermath.
Then come back and tell us whether you still think people are calling him a cheater “for no reason.”
Context changes everything.
Reviewing Lock Upp without watching Splitsvilla is like reviewing a sequel after skipping the original movie. You’re entitled to your opinion—but don’t be surprised if it’s missing the biggest part of the story.