Loved this. Biggest knock on Season 1 seemed to be "the dialogue feels very stilted and no one actually talks like this; this is just Aziz exploring different aspects of being a thirty-ish Indian actor in New York." And I get that! It didn't bother me so much, but yes, the dialogue often felt very forced, like Aziz wanted to explore different things like "I get typecast as an Indian actor too often" and "long term relationships are scary when you fall into one during the time in your life when the people around you begin to get married" but didn't know how to approach those subjects organically.
Season 2 is a lot more focused, a lot more precise, a lot more clean. It's still got a handful of specific thematic episodes (such as "it's hard coming out as a lesbian to your proud black mother and grandma") but there's an arc here, not only picking up where things left off for Dev after the first season (in Italy, making pasta) but also following his career and love life. The climax is the penultimate episode, a budding love story stretched into an hour long (and all of it excellent) that's just brutally heartbreaking even though you know exactly how it's going to unfold - the type of story you've seen and even been through several dozen times, and it should feel totally played out, but it doesn't, because it's just this flawless execution every step of the way.
Aziz has said that there won't be a third season of Master of None for a long, long time if ever, because he set out to make a show about several of the very specific things he's already looked at, and he'd need to collect all kinds of new life experiences - get married, have kids, and so on - in order to have something new to say.
I respect that! But it also makes me sad. At the very least, here's hoping we see more from Aziz in the future - he's come a long way from the guy I knew as "laughably lazy intern on Scrubs" and later Tom Haverford, who was for all intents and purposes just a slight tweak on "laughably lazy intern on Scrubs."
Season 2 is a lot more focused, a lot more precise, a lot more clean. It's still got a handful of specific thematic episodes (such as "it's hard coming out as a lesbian to your proud black mother and grandma") but there's an arc here, not only picking up where things left off for Dev after the first season (in Italy, making pasta) but also following his career and love life. The climax is the penultimate episode, a budding love story stretched into an hour long (and all of it excellent) that's just brutally heartbreaking even though you know exactly how it's going to unfold - the type of story you've seen and even been through several dozen times, and it should feel totally played out, but it doesn't, because it's just this flawless execution every step of the way.
Aziz has said that there won't be a third season of Master of None for a long, long time if ever, because he set out to make a show about several of the very specific things he's already looked at, and he'd need to collect all kinds of new life experiences - get married, have kids, and so on - in order to have something new to say.
I respect that! But it also makes me sad. At the very least, here's hoping we see more from Aziz in the future - he's come a long way from the guy I knew as "laughably lazy intern on Scrubs" and later Tom Haverford, who was for all intents and purposes just a slight tweak on "laughably lazy intern on Scrubs."
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