For those who share Devi’s Tamil American identity, “Never Have I Ever” was an especially significant first.
From left, Richa Moorjani, Poorna Jagannathan, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Ranjita Chakravarty, Lee Rodriguez in "Never Have I Ever".There’s a bittersweetness for fans as they sit down for the final season of Netflix’s “Never Have I Ever,” they say. Watching now-high-school-senior Devi Vishwakumar’s messy, boy-crazy antics play out one last time, they’re savoring every moment of what they feel is the first true South Indian American story told on TV.
It made it easy for Tamil American families to sit together and watch it, taking in its similarities to their lives with its multigenerational cast of women. Sherene Joseph, 45, is a Tamil American mom of two who lives in the suburbs of Dallas. She started watching the show with her kids when her daughter was a freshman in high school.
Karthick Ramakrishnan, founder and co-director of AAPI Data and the father of two boys, found uncanny similarities between the Vishwakumars and his own family. They too are Tamils living in the suburbs of Southern California, with a similar religious and language background. “Never Have I Ever” brings these big concepts up without being heavy-handed, he said. Questions of identity and inclusivity are on the table, but Devi and her friends aren’t politically perfect; in fact, they’re still figuring out right from wrong.
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