Master of None
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Alicia is working at an antique shop in hopes of breaking into interior design.
The couple knows each others rhythms and ticks.
Theyre at home together, with each other.
They fold laundry and dance to Everybody Everybody.
They keep each other up at night with hypothetical pillow talk about licking armpits to keep each other alive.
Its as endearing as any domestic tableau could aim to be.
Dev and Reshmi are almost immediately at each others throats, rehashing arguments theyve clearly had several times before.
Reshmi is unhappy that theyre living with Devs parents in Queens.
Dev is unhappy that Reshmi buys too much produce at the farmers market.
She says he should have gotten hair plugs to save his acting career.
He says her plant-sitting business idea is useless and all but calls her a lush.
In the bathroom, Reshmi tells Alicia that her life isnt where she expected it to be.
Her candor unnerves Alicia, who broaches the subject of children with Denise after their friends have left.
She wants to be a mother, and she has a plan.
All she needs is for Denise to get on board.
Denise is reluctant but agrees.
Battered by the allegation, Ansari has largely refrained from the spotlight.
You never call me anymore.
Were not the same friends we used to be.
Youre doing so well, and Im doing so bad.
It isnt hard to imagine how resentments might have cropped up between them.
Ansari propelled Waithes career while taking a massive hit to his own.
But its Denises marriage to Alicia that holds the real story.
And Ansari is good at making that hesitance clear with the camera.
She and Denise are in each others space, and its starting to get uncomfortable.
Jack of All Trades
Alicia apparently has a whole Ph.D. in chemistry.
I have so many questions about what resulted in a pivot to interior design.
Denise and Alicias chickens are named after Black musical divas: Tina Turner, Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle.
Its not important, its just delightful.
It was hard not to notice that the division of household labor seemed to fall along traditionally gendered lines.
