TELEVISION FANS, REJOICE. One of the best comedies on television, Master of None, returns to Netflix today for its second season.
The show won praise during its first season for its humorous dissection of everything from modern relationships to racial stereotypes.
This season starts with Dev, played by Aziz Ansari, temporarily relocating to Italy to follow his dream of learning to cook pasta. Here’s everything you need to know.
The first episode is shot entirely in black-and-white and is an homage to the 1949 classic The Bicycle Thieves
Highbrow.
There’s an episode in which Dev explores ”what it means to be a good Muslim”
Ansari has been increasingly vocal about his Muslim upbringing, going so far as to pen an op-ed about Islamophobia for The New York Times and addressing it in his Saturday Night Live monologue after Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Per Rolling Stone:
In one great episode, he comes to terms with his Muslim upbringing, which he’s strained against since childhood. “I remember when my mom took me for the first time,” he tells a friend. “I thought I was going to see the Jim Carrey movie The Mask. Then we end up at the mosque.”
And we get an episode dedicated to Denise and her coming out to her mother.
Huzzah!
Dev has a new love interest this season named Francesca.
Francesca is played by Italian actress Alessandra Mastronardi, who previously starred in Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love and a Nespresso ad. She also happens to go out with Liam McMahon, an actor from Co. Tyrone.
So now.
This season’s guest stars? Angela Bassett, John Legend and Bobby Cannavale.
Casual.
Worried that it won’t live up to the first season? Don’t be. The reviews have been glowing.
Don’t binge it too fast because you’re not probably not going to get a third season anytime soon.
In a recent interview with Vulture, Ansari hinted that it might be a while before he gets around to writing any more Master of None.
I’ve got to become a different guy before I write a third season, is my personal thought. I’ve got to get married or have a kid or something. I don’t have anything else to say about being a young guy being single in New York eating food around town all the time.
You’ve been warned.
