‘I never’ S3: Devi Vishwakumar’s personal life is still fun and exciting, but falls into repetition

This Friday August 12 Netflix premiered the long-awaited third season of one of its great successes, the comedy I never starring canadian actress Maitreyi Ramakrishnanwhich many already baptize as the best teen series on the streaming platform. streaming.

And it is that the complex life of the young American of Indian origin Devi Vishwakumar continues to have us all enthralled in front of the screen, and it is not for less. The series inspired by childhood mindy kaling (Virgin at 40, The Office), producer and screenwriter of the series, amuses and excites in equal parts and has managed to maintain its level at the highest in this third season, although it is true that its plots and script “twists” begin to be quite repetitive.

You like I never? Are you more of Paxton, Ben or Des? Do you agree with the decisions that Devi has made, or do you think the series has stopped surprising? We tell you what this third batch of episodes has seemed to us, as always in an article that CONTAINS SPOILERS.

Devi’s personal growth

Since its first season premiered in the summer of 2020, I never has not stopped exploring the duel that its protagonist faces after the sudden death of his father, camouflaged by his eternal struggle to be popular in high school and have a stable relationship with a boy.

In this third installment, and after some bumpy beginnings, Devi experiences greater personal maturity leaving behind the anger or despair that characterized her at the beginning and giving way to a more thoughtful young woman who little by little knows what she feels and what she wants, starting by loving herself more (something that helps her to understand a surprisingly mature Paxton (Darren Barnett).

This growth joins that experienced by other characters such as Ben (Jaren Lewison), who finally stops living pending the expectations of his father, Kamala (Richa Shukla Moorjani), who becomes independent and finally faces his grandmother, or Paxton, who enters the university by his own means and stops feeling valued only for his physical appearance. In I never everyone takes risks and learns even if they make mistakes, and this is precisely the essence of the series.

A good and emotional comedy

Although his scheme has not changed too much, I never is one of those series that ages well and proof of this is how continues to make us laugh thanks to the dialogues, situations and gag comedians who elaborate their scriptwriters, supported by a strong and solid cast among which stand out Eleanor (Ramona Young) and her fantasies, Fabiola (Lee Rodriguez) and her embarrassment, the hip and competitive Grandma Patty (Donna Pieroni) or Trent (benjamin norris)… just being Trent. The 25-minute-per-episode format helps lighten up this comedy and loosen up the plot, and it’s true that the series can be devoured in just a few days.

However, the greatest strength of the fiction lies in the emotional moments that beat between its most comical scenes, those that manage to captivate us and make us even tear up. Outstanding in this season is the chapter that brings Ben and Paxton closer together, which undoubtedly makes their characters grow and evolve, and each of the scenes they star in the hospital in which they open up and learn from each other. A ten.

The series is based on the adolescence of Mindy Kaling
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Reiteration and forced elements

But everything could be flattery for I neverand it is that all this wobble of Devi regarding the boys begins to tire a little and to seem even implausible. It is true that the series wants to show us how we all make mistakes, move forward and back again or have bad luck, but it seems that it is determined that all of her relationships turn out bad for Devi. After pushing Devi and Paxton closer and further apart countless times in the first two seasons, the youngsters, who clearly like each other and were definitely together at last, drift apart again. Is this an attempt by the series to lengthen the plot without knowing how?

And even more. After Desmond’s entrance on the scene (Anirudh Pisharody), with whom Devi builds a good and healthy love relationship from the beginning that even her mother Nalini (Poorna Jagannathan) approves, suddenly everything blows up without meaning and the series forces the couple to end through the uncertain and blurred character of Sarayu Blue, Des’s mother.

Finally, and in the middle of a wonderful last chapter that closes another stage of the series, the plot brings Devi and Ben back together in a sudden and passionate moment that has little to be believed, since hardly any chemistry had been breathed between the two in the whole season. The sitcom has already been renewed for a fourth and final season so who knows how this will all end. Judge for yourselves.

Starring Maitreyi Ramakrishnan
Starring Maitreyi Ramakrishnan
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Mother and daughter

If something characterizes I never is that, despite seeming like a series that deals with the loves of a nerdy teenager in a high school in the United States, it is much more than that, because it talks about grief, overcoming, friendship, dreams… And about the family union, specifically that of the protagonist and her mother after losing her father and husband, respectively.

If in the first two seasons the relationship between the two went through its worst moment with arguments, tears, punishments and bad words towards each other, fiction makes this precious link evolve until it becomes the most solid and unbreakable of all with moments like Nalini defending her daughter in front of her friend or Devi giving up going to a dream institute to spend more time with her mother. What is stronger than the love between a mother and a daughter? It is true that more minutes of the character of Poorna Jagannathan have been missing on screen, but both actresses give us an absolutely moving season finale.

After these last ten chapters, our Devi has learned that she already fits in wherever she is and that she has to take advantage of the present. And it is that despite being somewhat repetitive and forced at times, I never It continues to captivate, soften and make everyone who continues to soak up its history laugh, and now that Netflix has announced that the fourth will be its last season, we can only say one more thing: we will miss it.

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‘I never’ S3: Devi Vishwakumar’s personal life is still fun and exciting, but falls into repetition