But that’s where Never Have I Ever scores, it’s very believable, has a lot of heart and it’s quite novel to meet South Asian characters who are not relegated to the typical nerd/tech geek/best friend of the main lead caricature slot. Lately shows like 13 Reasons Why have dominated the high-school narrative. We have seen the melodramatic OC, One Tree Hill, 90210 and Gossip Girl - all highly unrelatable and borderline fantastical. Never Have I Ever is a fresh, funny and breezy take on the high-school genre. You name them and Kaling has lined them up for an appearance in her show. We get references from K-Pop, Beyonce, Ferrero Rochers, Harry Styles, Jodie Foster, the Kardashians, LeBron James… phew. Kaling has brought out the big guns for Never Have I Ever season 2. Kaling’s writing is often the coup-de-grace that makes a show comedy gold. Kaling is known for this, be it her annoying character of Kelly Kapoor - which she helped write - in The Office, or her rendition of Dr Mindy Lahiri in The Mindy Project. The whole season can serve as a primer for American pop culture for anyone needing a crash course. The plot of the show and the relative arcs of the ten-episode season at times are predictable, but what makes it worth one’s time is the slick dialogue, clever banter and the outrageous pop culture references that the show is liberally doused with. We also meet Devi’s grandmother who has moved in with them from Chennai. This time, we see Devi navigating high-school, dating shenanigans, curfew and her standard-issue overbearing Indian mother. We also met up with John McEnroe, the tennis legend who narrated the first season, and now returns for season 2. When we last met Devi, she had kissed two boys on the same day, and had bid good-bye to her father’s mortal remains. Never Have I Ever Season 2 takes these narratives further and that’s where things get all kinds of crazy. She was battling an overprotective mother, dealing with grief after losing her dad recently, and juggling it all with the all-American high school experience. What endeared Devi to the audience in the first season was her straight-minded dedication - she was equally determined in pursuit of her first sexual encounter, as she was to get straight ‘As’ in her report card. It seems to be following the same trajectory as The Office and Parks and Recreation - both had not so great first seasons, but more than made up for it with successful later seasons. Season 2 is where the show has really bloomed and found its footing.
The show had an intelligent premise, but the foundation was a bit shaky. In the first season of Never Have I Ever, we met Devi Vishwakumar (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) an Indian-American teenager, growing up in California.
#NEVER HAVE I EVER SEASON 2 SERIES#
Season 2, of the Netflix original series is bigger, wittier, more intelligent, and has the laughs cued up like clockwork. It seems the curse of the first season, staple for most comedies, has been lifted from Never Have I Ever.
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