But as peaceful and happy as Denise and Alicia’s marriage seems from the outside, we are being introduced to it at a perilous moment. Denise is now a successful author living in a gorgeous, ramshackle country house with her partner Alicia (Naomi Ackie), and when Dev pays them a visit, it’s clear he’s been left behind by her move to fancier social circles(*). It’s been four years since we saw either character, and both have been through big changes.
#MOMENTS IN LOVE REVIEW SERIES#
The approach this time is less The Twilight Zone than American Horror Story - a five-episode arc subtitled “Moments in Love” that’s built around Denise (Dev appears briefly a few times) and feels like nothing the series has done before. With this belated third batch, Master of None transforms yet again. Intertwined with episodes focusing on Dev’s romantic pursuits, the series smartly blended the best pieces of modern serialized television and the anthological approach of the medium’s first golden age in the Fifties and early Sixties. Some might barely feature the main characters at all, like a collection of short stories about immigrants and other New Yorkers whose stories are rarely told on film. One installment might be a black-and-white homage to neorealistic Italian cinema where Dev learns to make pasta, while another might be the story of Dev’s friend Denise ( Lena Waithe) gradually coming out to her family.
While the larger arc of each season tended to involve the love life of Dev, a modestly successful actor played by Aziz Ansari - who co-created Master of None with fellow Parks and Rec alum Alan Yang - individual episodes could take place anywhere and be about anyone. The first two seasons of Master of None were defined by unpredictability.
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