When Kriti Vij and Pranay Manchanda got a call from Dice Media, asking them to create a show about dating in the times of the Coronavirus pandemic, from their own homes with no help, they said yes without waiting to figure out the logistics. "We had no clue about lighting, or framing, but it was too interesting a challenge to not take up," says Vij, who has acted in Love Travel Repeat, that mapped a road trip from Mumbai to Bengaluru, and is married to Manchanda, who was last seen in Baked. They shot the show as they lived together at Manchanda's parents home in Delhi.

The result is Firsts Season 2, a 24-episode series about what happens when a couple meets on dating site Bumble during the lockdown. Each episode is one-minute long, released on Instagram daily and YouTube every four days, and deals with "firsts" the couple goes through before actually meeting. Both actors, aided by the directors of photography, Aniruddha Patankar and Ajinkya Pandit, shot the series at home. Manchanda, who has experience in directing plays and short films, also donned the director's hat. The first few episodes, which are titled, The First Compliment, The First Connection, and such, are sweet, relatable and natural. But the two say that it took them a while to get those right.