![]() ![]() She gets so swept up in calling out Devi that she even inadvertently outs herself to the whole class, which leads to a very sweet scene between her and Eve, who calls her brave and says that she came out by getting stoned and tweeting “me gay now.” Fab’s outburst is intense, emotional, and convincing, and all the pieces of the buildup fit together. The scene has a Booksmart-climax friendship-fight vibe to it. Fab’s sick of being sucked into her drama. She ruins Fab’s suit, and it’s the last straw. Devi has been treating her friends badly for a while now, and when she tries to stop Fab from drinking punch that Trent stuck his balls in, she might be technically trying to do the right thing, but it still blows up in her face. But she isn’t on the same page, and it makes for a much more interesting story that she turns him down.Ī lot of the conflict on Never Have I Ever has been pressure-cooking for a while now, especially this detailed and fraught buildup to an explosion of the central friendships. In his big, fancy house, Ben ends up surrounded by people who don’t even like him that much and only seems to connect with Devi. They’re the ones who pressure him to have a party, and he does, partially so he can impress Devi after he gets jealous of Paxton showing the photo-shoot pictures of her in class. His parents abandon him for it and feebly offer to stay instead of going to the Caribbean with 2 Chainz, but Ben lets them go and accepts his dad’s offer of $1,000 of petty cash. ![]() ![]() Unsurprisingly, Ben’s birthday is a sad affair. Nerd jokes!ĭevi seizes the opportunity to blackmail her cousin into letting her go to Ben’s birthday party. “It’s more of a line with a dot if you’re really going to graph it,” Kamala says when Devi accuses her of being in a love triangle. Like Young, Richa Moorjani also brings a lot of specific humor to her character. She has a secret, and things are coming to a head for Kamala since Prashant will soon be visiting. Kamala isn’t the perfect good girl Devi thought she was (and resented her for being). Soon, she might not have anyone.ĭevi does have a breakthrough in her relationship with Kamala when she walks in on her cousin making out with Steve. Devi keeps pushing people out of her life. Ryan and says she doesn’t want to see her anymore. Ryan is a rare TV therapist who is actually pretty good). Ryan tries hard to get Devi to admit that she is scared of losing her friends, connecting it back to the loss of her father (Dr. She does what she does best: suppresses her real feelings. It has all the emotional stakes and tension of a romantic breakup, altering Devi’s life right away. She quits the play.Īnd then she and Fab decide to take a friendship break from Devi. She swaps out her colorful clothing for plain, beige clothes. Eleanor dramatically decides to leave drama behind, which is funny and fitting. Ramona Young brings a lot of humor to the role of Eleanor, especially in her most theater-kid moments, like when Eleanor announces that she has done her last impression and then proceeds to do another impression. She should be with her friends because Eleanor is completely unraveling. (Devi’s love of pop culture is a fun and consistent part of her personality.) She should be with her friends instead of having an America’s Next Top Model moment. So Devi steps in, and while it’s nice to help someone out, it is absolutely not an emergency situation. She’s applying to fashion school and needs a last-minute model to show off her collection. She’s still hyperfocused on Paxton, but he’s not even the one who needs her help his sister Becca does. In her mind, she can do both, but it’s clear where her priorities lie. We pick up with Devi’s choice to help Paxton instead of helping Eleanor. It messes with rom-com tropes instead of merely replicating them. Never Have I Ever doesn’t always subvert expectations, but the times it does stand out. And at the end of the episode, she finally gets her long-awaited kiss with Paxton, another thing that genuinely surprised me. It speaks to the efficacy of placing us in Ben’s perspective that it seemed like something that might happen, because I think Ben really did think it would. Ben’s episode really makes it feel like we’re gearing up for a Ben/Devi rivals turned romance story, and while it’s not entirely off the table, it’s shot down for now. I’ll admit I didn’t really see Devi’s love life unfolding the way it does in this episode. ![]()
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