Text Review – Never Have I Ever

undefinedA super hit and popular Television show called Never Have I Ever, is a comedy and drama story about an immigrated family, with an immigrated mom, a daughter born in the United States and her cousin that came to study in the US, as well as some other guys and friends that come along in the show. The show introduces the family as an Indian-American family with daughter Devi who has many friends but no Indian friends, and her immigrant mother feels that she will lose all her Indian culture and heritage because of that reason. Devi’s father passed away at her young age due to a car accident and the family continues to mourn about her father’s death. In addition, many other characters come along as the sitcom progresses and moves on. The sitcom is very diverse and involves different races, nationalities, religious background, as well as different cultural identities. Throughout the episodes, the family brings out experiences in issues such as discrimination and  to a certain degree, racism. 

 

The characters of Never Have I Ever are extremely diverse, where almost every character pictured is of a different background and some LGBTQ+ characters as well. The show brings out the evils, in other words, the systemic injustice, of different colored people and the stereotypes of Indian people from the perspective of others. The reason I say that this is a systemic injustice, is because of the stereotypes that come from being Indian and having immigrant parents. If the system tried to correct the idea of stereotypes amongst certain races, and people of certain backgrounds, then there wouldn’t be so many problems amongst people of different backgrounds in society today. This show entails Devi trying to fit in and be a normal girl at school, and ends up with two boyfriends, one half Japanese, and one American and then gets caught by her mom. She then gets put into a circle of over-piling stereotypes that Never Have I Ever' Episode Recap: Devi Faces Major Consequences for Her  Actions at her because of her mom’s restrictions as an immigrant mom and not really knowing how hard it is for Devi to fit in. I think that the stereotypes and mild racism towards Devi brings out the systemic injustice of discrimination of different types and that is something that needs to be worked on for all of society today. This sitcom does a really good job bringing out the systemic injustice of discrimination, but also showing the diversity among a group of just six/seven people.

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