Tag: Poorna Jagannathan
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Turtles All the Way Down review, excellent mental health story
Turtles All the Way Down is a careful and well done exploration of mental illness in a teen girl played by Isabela Merced. It’s a story of friendship, budding romance, grief, love, and obsession.
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Never Have I Ever, season 4, the kids have grown up
Never Have I Ever, season 4, is the final season of this coming of age comedy. It’s the last year of high school for Devi (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) as she and her friends move toward their adult lives. There’s excitement and many wrong moves on Devi’s part, but I assure you the kids are all right.
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Never Have I Ever, season 3, coming of age comedy
Never Have I Ever, season 3, left behind the topic-loaded excellence of season 2 and went back to concentrating on coming of age. It was junior year for Devi (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) and her friends. They were concerned with shedding their virginity and finding relationships.
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Review: Never Have I Ever, season 2
Never Have I Ever, season 2, was better than season 1, in my opinion. This coming of age tale from Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher took the high school kids we got to know before and ran them through some funny but enlightening experiences. The series is streaming on Netflix.
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Review: Never Have I Ever
Never Have I Ever tells a coming of age story. The heroine is a first generation Indian American teenage girl. The story is based loosely on creator Mindy Kaling’s high school experiences.
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Review: Season 1 of Gypsy
I almost didn’t watch Gypsy. There were so many bad reviews. I sometimes forget my cardinal rule: I generally disagree with critics. I saw one good review, and a gay girlfriend told me she liked it a lot. To get to the point, I decided to watch it.