NEVER HAVE I EVER
Created by Mindy Khaling, and Lang Fisher, “Never Have I Ever” is an American coming-of-age comedy-drama television series starring Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Poorna Jagannathan, and Richa Moorjani, is based on Kaling’s childhood in the Boston area and is about an Indian-American high school student dealing with the death of her father, the first season of which aired on April 27, 2020.
The Second Season of this hilariously well-done and breaker of Asian stereotypes series premiered on Thursday, July 15, 2021, on Netflix.
Picking up from where we left off in the season one finale – Devi and Ben kissing while Paxton realizes he has feelings for Devi – season two is set to see Devi try to make the most of her romantic situation before her mother takes moves her to India.
Currently stuck in a love triangle with both Ben and Paxton, she decides to date them both without them knowing – because that rom-com trope always ends well!
According to Darren Barnet, who plays Paxton in the series, season two will “show more depth to Paxton beyond his abdominal muscles”, while Maitreyi Ramakrishnan also told Entertainment Weekly: “I feel like we stayed true to season one. It’s a proper transition. I do think season two is better than season one. I like to say, ‘We got no sophomore slump here!’”
Meanwhile, Devi is set to feel threatened by new girl in school Aneesa, “another Indian girl” she thinks is “cooler and prettier” than her, who also seems to take a liking to Ben.
Earlier this year, Lena Khan, who directs a few episodes of the upcoming series, has teased what’s to come for Devi.
“There’s 10 episodes in the season so I’m doing about two and a half of them. Because of COVID, we’re splitting one of them because crazy scheduling madness,” she told RadioTimes.com in February.
“Devi kind of – I don’t think I can say much but in the first season, she was trying to figure out how to deal with her situation with her father and now she’s kind of calibrating a different level of cool in her school.”
WHERE CAN I WATCH “NEVER HAVE I EVER”?
Exclusively available for streaming only on Netflix.