tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-25:123820Horses are good company -- The WitcherYou never can take the fight out of the fish --Dessasasha_feather2017-06-14T06:18:07Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-25:123820:1072375Master of None season 22017-06-14T06:17:39Z2017-06-14T06:18:07Zpublic2Two episodes this season really stood out, and they are episodes that do not focus on Dev.<br /><br />"New York, I Love You": vignettes about 3 working-class black New Yorkers. A doorman in a fancy apartment building deals with the strange requests of the tenants he works for, and he talks with his co-workers. A Deaf woman finishes her shift as a clerk at a bodega, goes to have coffee with a friend, and later goes shopping with her husband. A Kenyan-American cabbie finishes his shift, takes a nap, and then tries to go clubbing with his friends. This snapshot into regular people's lives was funny and endearing, and shone a light on people who are often invisible in media. A beautiful episode.<br /><br />"Thanksgiving": Denise and Dev growing up and having multiple Thanksgiving meals at her mother's house. Denise deals with coming out to her mom and later bringing girlfriends home. We see Denise's grandmother and aunt at each meal. Denise talks about how being gay in her black community is not widely accepted. A funny and moving episode, that again features people we don't normally get to see on TV. This episode stars many black women. <br /><br />I also enjoyed "Religion": Dev struggles with lying about being non-religious to his extended family. At one poing, Dev and his cousin sneak out from a religious event to go to a barbecue and eat lots of pork together. <br /><br />Episodes about how Dev struggles with dating and finding love bored me epically. I realize that Aziz Ansari finds this subject fascinating and wrote a whole book about it. But there are three whole episodes (out of 10!) focusing on Dev's love life: "First Date," "Amarsi Un Po", and "Buona Notte". yawn.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=sasha_feather&ditemid=1072375" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments