When we drift away from the lead pair once again, it is to learn more about Lavanya’s father and how he finds a second chance at love. However, the organic shift we felt earlier while witnessing Jyothi’s life isn’t felt during these sequences. Miss Perfect takes advantage of the episodic format and non-linear storytelling to show us different things at different times but since we don’t travel more with Lavanya’s father right from the start, the sudden choice to tell his love story feels unmotivated.
In a sweet conversation, Rohit tells Lavanya that he doesn’t know how to tell a lot of things that’s why he cooks her favourite dishes; that each dish he cooks is like a love letter. Only if the series, like its protagonist, said more through actions and less through words, the emotional impact would’ve been much better. No matter what goes wrong, the chaotic situations manage to lend comic relief — be it scenes featuring Rohit and Lavanya or when Jyothi teams up with her brother and security guard to figure out why Rohit fired her. Miss Perfect is far from being perfect but while it lasts, it’s fun.