![]() Nalini flies to India to look for condos for her and Devi to move into. That being said, this show does an amazing job of fleshing out individual characters beyond their connection to Devi. The side stories in this episode are compelling, though not quite as much as Devi’s. Yeah, cheating is bad, but it’s still pretty cool to know that a young Indian kid could have the power to break anyone’s heart, let alone two people’s. ![]() I can only imagine what a show like Never Have I Ever would have done for my self-esteem at that age. Indian women are almost never portrayed as sexually desirable, and when they are, there are often caveats - being a gorgeous model with so much going for her wasn’t enough to prevent Cece from being cheated on by the character she would ultimately marry one season later. Maybe I’m biased I thought I was ugly and undesirable until I saw the character of Cece on New Girl when I was 15. And besides, there’s something uniquely refreshing about seeing a teenage Indian girl be the object of desire of two attractive love interests. She is, after all, still grieving the recent death of her father. Just because Devi does bad things doesn’t make her a bad person. It feels completely out of left field, yet all the best television characters are innately complex. Whether the choice to make her a cheater pays off is up for individual interpretation. Why would Devi’s love triangle be exempt from that? High-school kids have a propensity for gossiping, and they’ll find any reason to do it. Her friends explain that no one really pays attention to Devi and therefore no one has noticed that she’s dating two people, something anyone who went to high school in the past 100 years would immediately recognize as unrealistic. Logistically, the writers have put little effort into making Devi’s romantic escapades believable. As she callously alternates between Paxton and Ben, two ostensibly obnoxious characters, you kind of even start to feel bad for them. It’s the first thing she has done that actively invites the viewer to root against her. She’s openly and proudly a cheater, something both she and her friends readily accept. She has no wiggle room, no “we never defined anything” excuse to hide behind. Her separate involvements with Ben and Paxton aren’t flings or situationships - she refers to both of them as her boyfriend numerous times. Her awkwardness made her accessible because who among us didn’t feel like an outcast at some point in our teenage lives? But Devi’s dual romances do not exist in the gray area of plausible deniability. Up until this point, she was a relatively likable, down-to-earth protagonist. The choice to make Devi have two boyfriends is an interesting one. ![]() This episode falls neatly into that tradition, with no shortage of moments that will make you want to yell at the television.ĭevi wakes up to texts from both Ben and Paxton, something she never would have imagined for herself just a few weeks prior. The best teen dramas are the ones you can feel in your soul, the ones that make you cringe superhard because they remind you of your younger self. ![]()
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