The Netflix show paving the way for more nuanced displays of diversity on TV

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When Never Have I Ever came along, South Asian millennials finally had a show that blended the angst of our peak hormonal years with the inflections of our heritage and customs. streaming

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’s Devi Vishwakumar is a different kind of heroine. She is both gorgeous and academically astute, whilst also being sexually inexperienced, and it’s been refreshing to watch a more sexually timid representation inAt the heart of the series is Devi’s boy craziness.

Her friendship group is also ethnically diverse, and all date actively, with or without their parents’ knowledge. Expectations of sexual confidence exist, especially in the latest season where Devi explores her new relationship with the much more experienced Paxton Hall-Yoshida , but in the climate of consent, the show’s main girl gang is presented in a more empowered position to withstand the social pressures to have sex and stand up to being slut-shamed.

Kaling has made the hot nerdy Asian or brown girl character commercially viable for a Hollywood palate. From TV adaptations of Jenny Han’s best-selling young adult seriesBridgerton

 

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