Review: Mindy Kaling’s 'Never Have I Ever' is breezy, cheerful and not as good as it ought to be
”), “Never Have I Ever” feels imitative and anticipated, like a college-application essay that is trying to be both glib and profound — and happens to be narrated by the intemperate, 61-year-old tennis legend John McEnroe.How McEnroe winds up being the omniscient voice in a present-day story about a self-conscious, Indian American high school sophomore is not as odd as it might seem.
“I think we can all agree that last year sucked for a number of reasons,” she prays. “So I thought of a few ways you guys can make it up to me. One, I’d like to be invited to a party with alcohol and hard drugs. I’m not going to do them, I’d just like the opportunity to say ‘No cocaine for me, thanks. I’m good.’ Two, I’d love for my arm hair to thin out. I know it’s an Indian thing, but my forearms look like the frickin’ floor of a barber shop.
Devi has spent the year growing more distant from her mother, Nalini , a dermatologist with strict ideas, mostly cultural, about how Devi should act and behave. Nalini is baffled by her thoroughly Americanized daughter.“Never Have I Ever” rather seamlessly juggles a lot of culture clashes at once — some of which are ethnically based and some of which are about race and gender, but most of which are the far more ephemeral brushes with popularity at high school.
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