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Just binged the season. The Francesca thing definitely comes from a male wish fulfilment sort of place, but it still feels like it comes from a real place. The show isn't lacking self-awareness about the manic pixie dream girl aspect; Dev's best friend says as much about how Dev was romanticizing the whole thing. But when you're knee-deep in that kind of situation it's hard to see or depict it any way other than how Ansari did. Also this surely draws a lot of comparison with Louie, but this film is on another celestial level in terms of representation. The scenes with immigrant cabbies, deaf folks, gay black women, middle-aged couples and not to mention people of color... The show tries so hard to give everybody a fair shake, and most of it lands really well. It doesn't reek of tokenism. If you're being generous, even the most prominent white dude is just a oversized dorky guy. It's pushing back against so many things. Ansari's probably right that he's hit sort of a dead end about stories he can tell featuring himself. But I'd love to see him steer another season where it's all about characters other than his. The Thanksgiving episode and the deaf couple scene were my favorite things this season.
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