and Alan Yang’s series first debuted in 2015, it was one of Netflix’s early critical successes and an early indication of how storytelling on the streaming platform could be distinctive from broadcast and cable offerings. “Master of None” told the overarching story of Dev , a B-list actor with expensive taste falling in love throughout New York City, with several self-contained narratives that were immediate standouts.
“Moments of Love” is a completely, deliberately different show. And if you didn’t know anything about what’s happened with its creative team since the second season, you might be very confused as to this new direction, and why Denise as a character feels so unmoored from her previous iteration that this season doesn’t feel like part of “Master of None” at all.
For one, Ansari barely appears onscreen except as a contrast to Waithe’s Denise, who otherwise now anchors the show. He does, however, direct every episode on film in long take after long take as if staging his own Ingmar Bergman series. It’s undeniably jarring, in a good way, to see a story about a queer Black couple given the kind of treatment typically only bestowed upon white couples.
The season’s first real close-ups, in fact, don’t come until its fourth episode — which is not coincidentally focused on Ackie’s character rather than Waithe’s. This season’s iteration of Denise doesn’t feel like an older version of Denise so much as a very different one altogether, begging the question of why this couldn’t have just been a different show outside of the “Master of None” umbrella with Waithe playing a new character.
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