While Never Have I Ever doesn’t shy away from the realities of partying, sexually active teens, it’s hardly the pearl clutcher that’s become the de facto depiction of Gen Z on TV in the likes of Riverdale, Euphoria, Genera+ion, or, now, the Gossip Girl reboot. Real and relatable are interesting concepts when it comes to teen series. (You try to decide between an intellectual equal who may be your perfect match and walking washboard abs with a jawline, played by Paxton Hall-Yoshida, when the option is presented to you.)īut no matter how heightened the plot twists or snappy the dialogue, Never Have I Ever never stops feeling real or relatable. Yes, Never Have I Ever doesn’t shy away from the hallmarks of the teen soap: At one point, Devi is in a love triangle, and it is messy. The series, from Mindy Kaling, centers around Devi (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan), a first-generation Indian American high school student grappling with the cultural tension between the discipline of her life at home-one rocked by the sudden death of her father-and the intoxicating barbarity with which the rest of her classmates seem to charge through life: hormones first, inhibitions seemingly never.ĭevi struggles through insecurities about her self-worth, her culture, her sexual experience, and her mental health, along the way blowing up relationships with her oldest friends, her newest friends, her mother, and her two boyfriends. There’s always been pop-culture tension between teen soap provocateurs like Gossip Girl-and The OC, Dawson’s Creek, and Beverly Hills: 90210 before it-and the more grounded fare, sometimes dismissed as juvenile, like Never Have I Ever.
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