30 years old Dev is an actor who attempts to make his way through life in the city of New York and at the same time balancing his personal life from his profession.
Master of None is so confident in its tone and execution that it almost feels like a show in its fourth or fifth year. This may be the most confident first season of a comedy since Veep.
You would have to be a single- celled amoeba to find nothing to relate to in this sharp, funny look at modern romance, millennial indecisiveness, the inter-generational disconnect as well as race and gender.
The 10-episode series, co-created by Ansari and Alan Yang and arriving on Netflix this Friday, is not a cringe comedy but a comedy of manners, fascinated by anthropology and etiquette, by how we behave and how we should behave.
Quippy, topical but also thoughtful, Master of None is perfectly binge-worthy and thus the ideal Netflix show. If you start watching, be sure to set aside time for all 10 episodes. Go on, treat yourself.
Polished and, in its own way, sophisticated, Master of None is remarkably good television for any show, let alone a first season from first-time creators.
There's an age at which being professionally and personally adrift pivots from cute to tragic and Dev is on the cusp. Then, perhaps that is deliberate too - adding poignancy to a comedy that blends sarcasm and sincerity in just the right quantities.
At a time when diversity in television is the hot topic in entertainment, how fitting it is for a show like Master of None to pop up and serve as the ideal example of what a unique voice can bring to the table.
The result is an incredibly sweet and hopeful show about living, dating and growing up that balances the pathos of modern life with all the hilarity one encounters along the way.
