Never Have I Ever Review: Mindy Kaling's Best Work Is a Whip-Smart First Gen Portrait
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. All she wants for her sophomore year are forearms that don't require liberal reapplication of Nair and a fine, if simple, boyfriend who can "rock her all night long." And as she reminds the careful array of Hindu gods in her home, they owe her after the sudden death of her father last year.