Master of None (Aziz Ansari, Netflix) TV Show • Page 10

This show is too real, personally. I found myself falling in love with Francesca and feeling the pain that Dev felt. Maybe I'm just a big softie, but that whole relationship cut close for some reason.

 

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Denise's aunt is the bomb

 

God damn it this penultimate episode is too real jeez

 

You're not alone in that. Someone in here said it best earlier, this show just knows how to create moments and snippets of time you want to live in, hold onto, and cherish.

 

100% agree. There were so many moments during the penultimate episode especially. The red leaves bit was too great

 

I could've watched 10 full episodes of them falling for each other, if we're being honest. I thought the whole scene at Arnold's DJ Night was a good counterweight to the picture perfect fantasy Dev was building up as well.

 

I'm literally watching the episode right now, and like someone said above, the bits where Devs talking to Arnold are so realistic...the hopefulness, the analyzation, the playfulness is all so true from one side. This is very much the experience of a guy fawning over a girl who's in a committed relationship, and I like how it's very much Dev's POV.

 

Alright I'm back in, I liked First Date a lot. Aparna, real Eleanor, lot of great casting, well executed concept, Christine character was very solid, story by Sarah Schneider makes a lot of sense.

 

Yea, happy to see Sarah Schneider was behind it, been a fan since her time at College Humor

 

Watching the first episode of Season 2 right now.

Aside from some of the dialogue issues that've gotten mentioned, I figured out what kinda bugs me with Aziz's acting. It's easier to stomach in Parks and Rec, but it feels like he's always trying to look smiley and happy. And when he's showing emotion, it just feels like he's trying to humorously exaggerate emotions. Idk. Not sure if that makes sense.

 

Watching Master of None from the first episode of season one to the finale of s2 is to watch Aziz really mature into an exceptional actor. He's great in the last couple episodes.

 

Damn that last shot tho

 

There's definitely an acting improvement as the story progresses. And I think that faux-cheeriness is part of the character of Dev, who develops quite a bit over the season as well.

I also wanted to know peoples' thoughts on the finale's romance. I'm still tossing it over in my head. Not gonna be overly specific bc of spoilers, but did Dev do the right thing? The dude's not a perfect human, and I'm curious as to peoples' thoughts

 

I got angry when he started pulling that me shit. He's definitely selfish when he's saying the things he says, but he was also showing that they both weren't considering the other persons scenario. I thought that it was human in the emotions while strictly a scripted show in delivery

 

Yeah I'm not sure if it was the "right" thing to do or say, but that's definitely what a real person would think of first

 

His reaction was instinctual. He interrupted her because he couldn't stomach her putting those final thoughts into words at that moment. You can plan out the right things to say all you want, but that conversation is over before you know it, and she's out that door in what feels like the blink of an eye.

Fwiw, I think the right angle would have been to come from a more supportive side, and to try and show that he'd help her in every step of the way in terms of leaving her old life. Her biggest worries were clearly her deeply embedded tie ups.

I know I'm kind of rambling, you can see how invested in this season I got lol.

 

ya show is very real. plus Dev shows affection in similar ways I do, part of the whole "love language" thing. Mine's super playful, almost child-like and I see that in the show a lot. I'm not nearly as funny but I'm not scripted either haha. Also Dev handled it the only way his emotions would really let him, he just broke. There was nothing to salvage to begin with, kind of what Arnold was getting at. And he wasn't entirely wrong, either, in the sense that they both were in the wrong. She led him on only because it was an emotional escape from the stress of being uncertain about her marriage. He fell hard for an engaged woman to escape his ex.

 

I feel so conflicted about this season. On one hand, I think the conceptual episodes (specifically New York I Love You and Thanksgiving) are incredible. The bold stylistic moves are just next level sometimes, and even when they don't really work for me (The Theif wasn't my favorite), they're still special moments in a great little show. Loved the last scene in Dinner Party, and the 2nd act of New York I Love You was unbelievable in concept and perfectly executed.

On the other hand, the main narrative of this season was so god damn boring that I truly didn't care about what happened with Dev and Francesca. It's a story that has been done countless other times and the ending was so predictable. It's hard to sympathize with Dev because he's flirting with a woman who's engaged to be married, and he just had a life-altering relationship with another woman last season. Seeing Rachel at the end was a reminder that none of this matters seeing how easily he--and we, the audience--seem to have forgotten about her. I was desperately waiting for a moment of self-realization on Dev's part and it never came. He just kept acting like a selfish asshole, particularly in the last 2 episodes. The Chef Jeff thing was so on the nose too, seeing how the story H. Jon Benjamin tells Dev directly reflects what Dev did to Francesca. There was a huge opportunity to push Dev's character to a new depth in the finale and it didn't happen..

After seeing Love season 2 a few weeks ago, which I loved, it's hard not to see the storyline here and the handling of a complex relationship as vanilla. I don't think it's a coincidence that the best episodes are the ones that don't follow Dev at all.

 

Finished this yesterday. So good. The first ep, Tinder date ep, New York I Love You, Thanksgiving, and the last 2 eps were all pretty great.

Definitely felt the ending was ambiguous. We see them together in the final shot, but there's not exactly a happy atmosphere to it. It reminded me of La La Land in a certain respect.

 

I think all of this is pretty spot on, and I think it's worth considering the final shot of the season, in which they both look very unhappy lying next to one another in bed, something I believe was intentionally done. I also feel that seeing Rachel at the end was a great way to drill home the idea that these two people are strangers now. It's a conversation marked by so much withheld emotion-- I don't think he's forgotten about her-- I think he walks away from the conversation humiliated with himself, and broken by the confusing nature of relationships-- in which two people can fall in love, but in the end, what keeps them from becoming another Rachel and Dev/Francesca and Pino?

 

Crazy how everyone in New York, I Love You is better actor than anyone in the main cast.

Dialogue flows perfectly and seamlessly the entire episode.

 

LOVE SEASON 2 IS OUT??

 

It's been out for 2 months lol

 

Yep. Really came into its own this season. Loved it.