*Minor Spoilers Ahead*
The first season of Aziz Ansari’s Master of None gained critical acclaim and Emmy nods for its unique comedic take on some of the most pressing social issues facing millennials.
Ansari and co-creator Alan Yang took on everything from culture clashes with immigrant parents, to the danger women often feel walking down the street, and of course, Aziz's favorite topic - dating in the age of texting and Tinder.
The second season continues this trend, though maybe with a bit more subtlety than the first. Yang told the Hollywood Reporter:
“If you were writing a parody of Master of None season one, it might have been like, 'Oh, something happens to Dev on the street, and it’s a little weird, and he talks about it with his friends and he sits with them in a nice restaurant and he learns a little bit of something and then some more stuff happens and then at the end of the episode he’s like two percent more woke than he was at the beginning,' and we didn’t want to necessarily follow that formula to a T.”
That said, Yang and Ansari don't stray away from the issues they think are important.
Religion
Season 1's breakout stars - Aziz's actual parents - return in the aptly-titled episode "Religion."
Eating bacon at a barbecue festival is the impetus for Aziz's Dev to break from the tradition of Islam and have an honest conversation with his parents about his feelings on the religion they raised him to believe in.
Sexuality
The episode "Thanksgiving" finds Dev's friend Denise coming out to her family to mixed reactions. This reaffirms the show's commitment to diversity and its willingness to realistically depict the hard moments in life, all while making us laugh.
Love
Season 2 has no shortage of commentary on modern romance (not so coincidentally the title of Ansari's book), as Dev struggles with his feelings for a woman who is not only in a relationship, but lives in Italy, halfway across the world.
Suffice it to say, Master of None: Season 2 delivers on the promises of Season 1 in spades. With no shortage of laughs or lessons, Ansari and Yang have crafted another series of heartfelt stories worthy of the speed at which you will most certainly end up binge-watching.
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