**This episode does contain minimal explicit language, so please take that into consideration prior to listening**
**SPOILER ALERT: We do discuss scenes of Never Have I Ever in this podcast, so if you are planning to watch the show, please go ahead and skip this podcast!**
Never Have I Ever was a HUGE "must-watch" for almost every desi person's quarantine. We wanted to spend some time discussing how it felt to see Desi people on the big screen.
Time Stamps:
00:49 – Plot Overview of Never Have I Ever
02:08 – Positives about the Show: What did we appreciate about the show and what it means for Desi people entering Western Media.
05:03 – An Example of Devi’s Badass Comebacks (Scene from show)
08:42 – How Could the Show be Improved?
11:27 – When Desi Immigrants Start to Compare Princeton vs. Stanford (Scene from show): We discuss why we thought having this sort of scene was not particularly great for desi culture.
13:59 – Islamophobia within Never Have I Ever
16:57 – What Critics Have to Say About Never Have I Ever: What did reviews of the show think? How did it align with what Sofia and I thought? Were the characters one-dimensional? Did the show depict a “white-washed” version of Desi culture?
20:56 – What Would We Change About the Show?
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