Finale
- Episode aired Nov 6, 2015
- TV-MA
- 29m
After attending a wedding and a disappointing film premiere, Rachel and Dev are both having doubts about their relationship.After attending a wedding and a disappointing film premiere, Rachel and Dev are both having doubts about their relationship.After attending a wedding and a disappointing film premiere, Rachel and Dev are both having doubts about their relationship.
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Storyline
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- TriviaAll entries contain spoilers
- Quotes
Benjamin: Nobody's at a 100. I mean, I'm in a great marriage and sometimes we're at 90, other times we're at like 20 or 30. It goes up and down, it's not just like one number all the time.
Benjamin: Long term relationships are tough. You can't just expect a big, roaring fire right away, right? You know, you can't put the big logs in first. You start with the small stuff. Kindling, all right? Then you add that, *then* you put in the big logs and *then* you have a roaring fire. And that's a good relationship. But be careful, sometimes kindling is hard to find, you know? Good wood. So, don't take it for granted.
- SoundtracksIl est Cinq Heures, Paris s'Éveille
Music by Jacques Dutronc
Lyrics by Jacques Lanzmann and Anne Ségalen
Performed by Jacques Dutronc
Dev (Aziz Ansari) a first-generation immigrant of Indian heritage, struggles with the social complexities of 21st century living despite enjoying an easy life built on his parents sacrifices. He begins a relationship with Rachel (Noel Wells) a record company executive but is never sure that a real relationship is comparable to the fantasy of one. Dev does, however, have another success in the offing, having landed a role in "The Sickening" a contemporary horror film filming in New York.
The show doesn't work particularly hard at making Dev all that likable. He's not a bad guy, but he's got a reasonable amount of selfishness and I can see his silliness becoming wearing pretty quickly. His friends aren't particularly realistic either, particularly Arnold, played by Eric Wareheim, but he, Denise played by Lena Waithe and Brian, played by Kelvin Yo. I liked that Rachel is played as a match for Dev and not just someone who is endlessly won over by his dubious charms. Without doubt though the star and Dev's parents, played by Ansari's actual parents. Their lack of acting ability is obvious, but also somehow charming.
The episode of this first season are wide ranging, despite having some pull through storylines and are genuinely funny throughout, even on this second viewing.
It's tough though to reconcile the Aziz who wrote some of these episodes, particularly the elements about the way women suffer a million microaggressions, as well as full on aggressions, with the one of whom those allocations are made - though I'll admit that those themselves are capable of causing a lengthy debate.
Separating art from artist does seem to be one of the most consistent debates of my adult life and if your capable of doing it, then I think that this season is really good stuff.
- southdavid
- Sep 5, 2022
Details
- Runtime29 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1