Never Have I Ever Been on a Podcast (Candid Review of Netflix's Never Have I Ever)

Episode 8 March 05, 2021 00:23:22
Never Have I Ever Been on a Podcast (Candid Review of Netflix's Never Have I Ever)
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Never Have I Ever Been on a Podcast (Candid Review of Netflix's Never Have I Ever)

Mar 05 2021 | 00:23:22

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Show Notes

**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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