The new Hulu comedy has fun with its bored suburban aliens, even if it lacks the "Rick and Morty" emotional punch.
20.04.2020 - 23:55 / variety.com
The smart new comedy is anchored by a breakout performance from Maitreyi Ramakrishnan in her debut role.
By Caroline Framke
Chief TV Critic
“Never Have I Ever” has a keen awareness of the teen comedies that came before it. Its plucky heroine has an overbearing mother, two meeker best friends, a nemesis, and a debilitating crush on a popular jock with a secret heart of gold. All she wants is to stride through her sophomore year of high school with more flare than she did as a freshman, have
The new Hulu comedy has fun with its bored suburban aliens, even if it lacks the "Rick and Morty" emotional punch.
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If you haven't already watched Chris Hemsworth kick ass as Tyler Rake in the Netflix action flick Extraction, you should probably clear your schedule to find out why the film is quickly becoming the must-see streaming movie of the moment. Only a two weeks after Extraction debuted on April 24, Netflix tweeted on Friday that the movie has already been watched by "a projected 90 million households" and that it is poised to become the streaming service's biggest ever film premiere.
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In the opening scene of Never Have I Ever, Mindy Kaling's new coming-of-age comedy on Netflix, Devi Vishwakumar (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) prays for what every 15-year-old Indian-American teenager raised in the suburbs yearns for.
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By Angelique Jackson
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan is prepared for people to say she reminds them of a young . After all, Ramakrishnan stars in a coming-of-age Netflix series—Never Have I Ever, out now— and created by and star.
In the opening scene of Never Have I Ever, Mindy Kaling's new coming-of-age comedy on Netflix, Devi Vishwakumar (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) prays for what every 15-year-old Indian-American teenager raised in the suburbs yearns for.
Sally Rooney's bestselling novel gets a crushingly intimate adaptation with two excellent performances at its center.