B+Season 2Master Of None ends in personal and professional devastationKayla Kumari Upadhyaya5/30/17 11:59pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkMaster Of None’s season two finale sees Dev through personal and professional crises, as his new business venture with…
BSeason 2Francesca and Dev have an emotional affair on Master Of NoneKayla Kumari Upadhyaya5/28/17 5:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkEven though it’s one of the season’s central ongoing storylines, Dev and Francesca’s unfurling romance hasn’t been as…
ASeason 2Master Of None’s “Thanksgiving” presents one of the best coming out stories on televisionKayla Kumari Upadhyaya5/26/17 9:40pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThanksgiving is a loaded holiday for a lot of queer folks. For some, it means going back into the closet entirely. For…
BSeason 2Personal and professional decisions challenge in Master Of None’s “Door #3”Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya5/24/17 5:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIt’s easy to oversimplify life’s big choices, to view decision-making as a process of choosing between this and that.…
ASeason 2Master Of None’s love letter to New York flips the scriptKayla Kumari Upadhyaya5/22/17 5:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkCrafting a love letter to New York City certainly isn’t a groundbreaking concept in art, and yet Master Of None—with a…
B+Season 2Master Of None finishes strong in otherwise disjointed “Dinner Party”Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya5/20/17 5:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkFor three episodes in a row now, Master Of None has really dazzled me with its final shot. The sequence at the end of…
A-Season 2Master Of None understands dating-app culture more than most televisionKayla Kumari Upadhyaya5/18/17 5:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkMaster Of None has been subtly fucking around with storytelling this season, departing even more from traditional…
ASeason 2Aziz Ansari’s parents return to Master Of None for a funny, incisive meditation on “Religion”Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya5/16/17 5:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“Religion” opens with a montage of resistant kids being dragged by their parents to their respective places of worship.…
B+Season 2Master Of None crashes a wedding and celebrates friendship in “Le Nozze”Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya5/14/17 5:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIn “Le Nozze,” Arnold (Eric Wareheim) arrives in Italy for a wedding (“le nozze” translates to the wedding in Italian).…
ASeason 2In sublime season two premiere, Master Of None nods to Italian cinemaKayla Kumari Upadhyaya5/12/17 6:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAfter the long wait between seasons one and two of Master Of None, Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang’s auteur comedy returns…
B+Master Of None’s 2nd season is 10 episodes of daring plus one humdrum romanceErik Adams5/03/17 2:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkA recent Aziz Ansari profile in New York Magazine sets high expectations for the new season of Master Of None, the…
ASeason 1Master Of None confidently closes out its first season “just like that”Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya11/16/15 6:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkMaster Of None is a deeply personal show, even as it’s dealing with sweeping concepts like breakups and uncertainty…
ASeason 1Master Of None makes a layered romantic comedy out of “Mornings”Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya11/14/15 12:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“Mornings” is the best romantic comedy I’ve seen in a long time. It may just be a 30-minute installment of a TV comedy,…
A-Season 1Master Of None gets real about agingKayla Kumari Upadhyaya11/13/15 6:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkSomewhere around “The Other Man,” I realized that Master Of None more closely resembles a collection of short stories…
A-Season 1Master Of None goes after everyday sexism and doesn’t miss a beatKayla Kumari Upadhyaya11/12/15 6:12pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAnyone familiar with Aziz Ansari’s stand-up material will recognize a lot of the commentary in “Ladies And Gentlemen,”…
ASeason 1Master Of None travels to Nashville for a believably imperfect first dateKayla Kumari Upadhyaya11/11/15 6:48pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkDespite the little mishap at the end brought on by Dev’s overreliance on Waze and need for more white barbecue sauce,…
A-Season 1Master Of None tackles an unconventional affair storyKayla Kumari Upadhyaya11/10/15 6:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkMaster Of None doesn’t always feature the best, most fluid, performances, but at the same time, there’s an air of…
ASeason 1Master Of None identifies Hollywood’s race problem and does something about itKayla Kumari Upadhyaya11/09/15 6:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe first time I can remember seeing an Indian woman on my television in something other than the Bollywood movies I…
B+Season 1Master Of None falters but finds footing in final actKayla Kumari Upadhyaya11/08/15 12:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“Hot Ticket,” which returns to some of the themes of modern dating introduced in Master Of None’s first episode, is the…
ASeason 1Master Of None is both personal and sweeping in its portrayal of immigrant storiesKayla Kumari Upadhyaya11/07/15 12:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkEver since it was announced that Aziz Ansari had tapped his own parents, Fatima and Shoukath Ansari, to play his…
