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Critic Reviews
The IndependentMay 21, 2021
Season 3 Review:
These long, beguiling sequences don’t merely resonate with tension and emotion, they positively ache. ... Some early reviews have dismissed the season as overly slow and meandering. Don’t listen to them. It may take its time, but good things come to those who Waithe.
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May 15, 2017
Season 2 Review:
This might be the show of the year. ... Even the benefits of giving itself space to experiment, or of having those funny jokes, aren’t what makes Master of None’s second season as good as it is. What really makes it work is its endless faith in the idea that people will take care of each other in the end.
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May 15, 2017TV Guide MagazineMay 11, 2017
Season 2 Review:
Stylistically and thematically adventurous, Master of None continually shifts tone and focus, with no two episodes alike. ... Dev may not yet mastered life, but there's no doubt Ansari has mastered his craft. [15-28 May 2017, p.16]
May 11, 2017
Season 2 Review:
What’s different about the second season of Master of None is a greater sense of auteurish confidence--a willingness to allude to movies, to toy with linear storytelling, and to artfully frame shots. ... That kind of playfulness and risk-taking wends in and out of the season with the kind of assurance usually seen in the work of more experienced TV and movie makers.
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May 10, 2017
Season 2 Review:
Who needs a continuing plot arc when the characters are so beautifully defined and performed? Master is among the most character-driven shows on TV, and we’re the better for it. The laughter comes easy on our part, but there’s a lot of hard, smart work being done to make the show feel so effortless and naturalistic.
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Nov 3, 2015
Season 1 Review:
This is a great show, which you might expect given the number of "Parks" veterans involved (including Mike Schur in a godfather capacity as one of the executive producers), but which still feels surprising given the show's clever structure and eagerness to embrace other perspectives.
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Oct 26, 2015
May 19, 2021
Season 3 Review:
While the ending isn’t perfect, it doesn’t need to be. Moments In Love burrows into mundanity, discomfort, and grief and still finds humor and joy along the way. It’s beautifully captured but also messy. The only perfect marriage here is the one between the show’s aesthetics and its narrative.
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May 20, 2021
Season 3 Review:
Waithe’s performance is not as conventionally accomplished as Naomi Ackie, who co-stars as her wife and lights up the screen with each aptly chosen facial expression and line reading. ... Ansari is also masterful (pardon the pun) at capturing Waithe’s groundbreaking portrayal of queer romance and heartache by returning as director, and bringing auteuristic flourishes.
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May 3, 2017
Season 2 Review:
Master of None is keen to integrate this niche experience [first-generation immigrants] with the wider world, which is not hard in this nation of immigrants. It makes for a particularly moving second installment of Dev’s wanderings through the world, asking always the immigrant’s sad and beautiful and perpetual question: “Who am I going to decide to be?”
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Nov 6, 2015
Season 1 Review:
Master of None avoids comedy conventions, eschewing a regular cast in favor of recurring characters and guest stars who pop up in episodes devoted to different themes. The show plays a bit like “Louie” in that way, but Master of None is funnier, less dramatic and tonally closer to Woody Allen’s lighter fare.
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Nov 5, 2015
Season 1 Review:
Master of None is more articulate than any other show at putting under a microscope that generation’s neuroses, desires, and ambivalence. The series also happens to be sexy, hilarious, and very moving, a tribute to Ansari’s observational powers and ability to pinpoint the zeitgeist.
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Nov 5, 2015
Season 1 Review:
While Louie is often aggressively dreamlike, Master of None feels like a perfect distillation of Ansari’s best comedy. It picks apart the social conventions of his generation, ponders the insidiousness of racism and sexism in entertainment, and obsesses over his inability to form romantic connections--a smart comedy of manners that has more in common with Seinfeld than its contemporaries.
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May 26, 2021
Season 3 Review:
Waithe and Ansari ruefully ponder everything from complacency to the inevitable fate of all things. Which is to say that the third season of Master of None is consistent with its predecessors for so easily entwining us in what feels like a free-floating polyphony of life.
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May 10, 2017
Season 2 Review:
The second [season] features a number of self-contained episodes that are essentially extended vignettes, investigating Dev’s universe but only tangentially related to the season’s overall narrative. These diversions are among the most imaginative and insightful episodes of the season, and provide a balance to the series that was previously missing. Cultural commentary is no longer incidental to romance comedy.
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May 3, 2017
Season 2 Review:
Season 2 isn’t anchored to any plot thread at all. Sure, the self-contained episodes are fun, but eventually, I wanted to see Dev progress a little, to develop as a character from one episode to the next. ... The subtle joys of Master of None more than make up for any minor structural quibbles.
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May 3, 2017
Season 2 Review:
This batch demonstrates that Master Of None finds just as much inspiration from the people surrounding Ansari. That’s where the root of the Francesca problem lies. For everything Alessandra Mastronardi invests in the role, she’s playing an invention surrounded by lived experiences. There’s nothing wrong with a little fantasy, but it clashes with the entertaining way in which Master Of None reflects its creators’ realities.
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May 24, 2021
May 19, 2021
Season 3 Review:
It’s in the final two episodes that this season becomes an essential chapter of the show, first by illustrating, with a warm and grounded intimacy, the lengths Alicia will go for the kind of love she craves in her life. But it’s the last episode that truly dazzles, pushing Master of None out of its comfort zone of lovelorn pining into emotional and ethical complexities that never lose their sense of headlong romance. Master of None has, finally and indisputably, grown up.
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May 12, 2017
Season 2 Review:
It has a lovely lyrical wandering quality about it. This year, there are probably more smiles than laughs. The humor is less jokey and more organic (keeping with the food motif). The episodes are more themed than plotted, mostly a series of interconnected vignettes. Characters drop in and out.
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ColliderMay 10, 2017
Season 2 Review:
Even if Master of None‘s second season isn’t as immediately thrilling as the series’ inaugural season at first, there is a personal element to everything that happens to Dev and his social circle, a clear knowledge that other people can indeed be hell but they also often offer levity, comfort, and understanding that is neither amplified nor diminished with the introduction of a good data plan.
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May 19, 2021
Season 3 Review:
The 55-minute opening episode effectively sets a mood and the state of the marriage, but can feel self-indulgent next to the second and third episodes, which both clock in at less than 30 minutes (albeit at times feeling longer than that). But those viewers willing to be patient will find reward in the penultimate episode. ... “Moments in Love” is a gamble that doesn’t fully pay off, but it’s great to know that after years apart, Ansari and Waithe were willing to try something both so different and yet so true to the larger spirit of what the show was before.
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May 12, 2017
Season 2 Review:
While I share Aziz Ansari’s appreciation for the people, the food and the sights, I really hope he and Netflix got a nice tax break for the first two highly skippable episodes of his otherwise enjoyable comedy series Master of None. ... Ansari proves his show is best when it tells a little story about a large idea.
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Jul 20, 2021
Season 3 Review:
The slowness of Moments in Love is likely to frustrate a lot of viewers, especially those more attuned to the breezier, more life-affirming seasons that preceded it. But by paying such adoring attention to the mundane, Ansari and Waithe argue that it’s those small moments of connection, however fleeting, that matter more than the big, sweeping gestures we associate with romance.
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May 24, 2021
Season 3 Review:
The new season of Master of None is so committed to exploring every element of Denise and Alicia’s distance that it moves at a glacial pace—most of its five episodes come in at around 30 minutes; two are nearly an hour long. Much of the dialogue is stilted and heavy-handed. ... The season is strongest when subtly communicating the betrayals that can present uniquely in queer relationships.
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May 24, 2021
Season 3 Review:
The season struck me as too artistically conservative in many places. In particular, Moments in Love requires you to be all in on Denise and Alicia’s marriage early on for the later strife they face throughout the fertility treatment process to land. ... The tight frames of this season don’t imprison the characters. They imprison the show itself.
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May 19, 2021
Season 3 Review:
There are two great performances nestled in this otherwise plodding season. One comes courtesy of Denise and Alicia’s house. ... The other standout turn is from Ackie. ... Its sporadically deft moments with Alicia make it hard not to want her starring in another series entirely that wouldn’t have had to deal with this much baggage.
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