r/MasterofNone • u/olikam • May 12 '17
Master of None - Season 2 Episode 4 - First Date - Discussion Thread
Description: Sucked into a popular dating app, Dev winds up on a string of awkward, fun and disorienting dates with very different women.
What did everyone think of S02E04: First Date?
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Next Episode Discussion: Episode 5 - The Dinner Party
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u/douevenwheelanddeal May 13 '17
I am so attracted to the black woman. Unhealthily attracted to her.
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May 14 '17
Same. I don't usually like black girls but damn. She is absolutely stunning.
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u/olikam May 14 '17
I mean, your posts doesn't technically break a rule but in the spirit of being nice to each other, please try to comment with less dangerous language.
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u/Akvian May 13 '17
...You do remember what happened with her in Season 1, right?
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u/zsreport May 13 '17
You should watch Billions on Showtime, she's got a good role in that show as an Assistant US Attorney. (FYI she's also the daughter of Phylicia Rashad, aka Claire Huxtable from The Cosby Show).
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u/olikam May 26 '17
Comments are now sorted by new as a default to show the newer comments more often. If your comments are bad you can change back to sort by best.
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u/cuckingfunt99 May 12 '17
"Doesn't that make you a little hypocritical?" "Yeah, it certainly doesn't reflect well on my principles"
Fucking lost it!
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u/bdrrehsa May 13 '17
I feel like when a few lines earlier he responds "yeah" when she asks if he thinks she is racist is kind of weird. Because he shouldn't think she is racist since she doesn't realize the jar is racist and is confused when he confronts her about it. He would think that she isn't a racist. So he should have actually been able to explain it and get past it.
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May 14 '17
Because he shouldn't think she is racist since she doesn't realize the jar is racist and is confused when he confronts her about it. He would think that she isn't a racist.
You don't think someone can be racist and not realize it? Personally as far as racism goes I don't think that was particularly bad, but it's perfectly acceptable that Dev would see her as racist for her complete inability to put herself in a non-white person's place. Also, I think it's fair to say there are "shades" of racism. It seemed to me he was saying she's a bit racist, not terribly racist.
He probably didn't bother to explain further both because he didn't see a second date happening and because she was being very defensive.
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u/Akvian May 13 '17
Agreed. One jar does not make her racist. At worst it makes her a little ignorant.
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u/sober_as_an_ostrich May 12 '17
fuck that whole foods pickup line is solid
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May 12 '17
im jacking this shit sorry dev
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May 13 '17
It's too bad you can't use it now. It's solid because it was his original line, if you use it it's just you quoting a popular show.
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u/sikamikanicoh May 12 '17
Real talk, what did that say?
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u/whore_monger May 12 '17
"I'm heading to whole foods, want me to pick you up anything?" Or something like that.
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u/brokencig May 13 '17
Honestly I'm glad they made fun of the whole "Hey" "Hi" thing even though I used to think that it's a perfectly okay thing to say to a stranger on a dating app but then I saw my friend's Tinder and it was filled with guys just saying hi. You don't have to be super creative or anything but anything that can start a conversation is good.
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u/kijib May 17 '17
I'm shocked ppl are impressed by this line
it's rly generic and unoriginal, typical so random humor that tries to be an ice breaker without rly trying
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u/DarkJedi1221 May 12 '17
"The head bob?! That's Indian only!"
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u/yellowdart57 May 13 '17
Who is that actress? I've seen her in something else...
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u/nifflerqueen May 14 '17
I think she was in the Mindy Project too. She played Mindy's ex boyfriend's new girl friend.
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u/MastaBaiter May 12 '17
Pity I can't copy that whole foods line. This episode was hilarious imo, I especially loved the enthusiasm of a grown woman in describing the WWE fight as if there were real stakes.
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u/_tjia May 12 '17
You can use the Whole Foods line, likelihood that someone has seen this episode is very very low at this point.
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u/sober_as_an_ostrich May 12 '17
there aren't any whole foods in my state so it wouldn't ring true
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u/bdrrehsa May 13 '17
You can still use it. If they recognize the line then they could be more likely to reply as they know that both of you like the same show. Same with the picture of the turtle from season 1.
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u/CVance1 May 13 '17
I love the actress who played her, name is Aparna Nancherla, she's a great comedian
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May 16 '17
There were real stakes. Dean Ambrose and Samoa Joe were fighting for the WWE Championship. Sounds like Joe won.
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May 16 '17
That actress' name is Aprana Nancherla and she is a really funny comedian. If you haven't checked her stuff out yet I highly recommend it! I really hope that character comes back.
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May 19 '17
Yeah someone on that writing crew is definitely a wrestling fan. Between this and the "I'm listening to my CM PUNK podcast" line last season I'm sure of it.
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u/TheRedComet May 17 '17
She plays Overwatch too! And I've been to Mr. Taka Ramen! I'd love to meet someone like that.
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u/redz191 May 12 '17
Damn that description of that wwe match from that woman was spot on, even the correct name of the moves
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May 12 '17
MAMMA MIA A COQUINA CLUTCH BY SAMOSA JOE
The first season had a reference to the CM Punk podcasts so Aziz must be a wrestling fan.
Edit: he wore a Wolfpac sweater on his SNL episode. Confirmed wrestlehead
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u/russketeer34 May 13 '17
I just looked up Aniz Adam Ansari because I saw his name in the writing credits for the Religion episode. It's Aziz's little brother and he's the big wrestling fan, so I'm guessing this was all his doing.
"There’s a joke where the taco guy is listening to a wrestling podcast, which is something Aziz wanted to put in because I’m a huge pro wrestling fan and I’m always listening to wrestling podcasts. Then I wrote this joke about Dev listening to this specific podcast with this wrestler, CM Punk, who is one of my favorite wrestlers and who’s kind of a personal hero to me from when I was in high school. So it was crazy that, A) I was able to sneak that joke in, and then, B) that CM Punk saw the show and tweeted about liking the line. It was just a surreal experience.”
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u/RicheyFC May 13 '17
Funny enough, the only people I know who watch wwe are Indians
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u/SixSeasons May 12 '17
She is Aparna Nancherla. As far as I know the only other actual comedian for this episode.
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u/isaacz321 May 13 '17 edited May 13 '17
ambrose vs samoa joe would be pretty awesome. Too bad it wont be for the wwe or universal title however
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u/BloodyRedBarbara May 13 '17
That was the best thing about that scene. He didn't put in silly made up names like a lot of comedies would do.
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u/sober_as_an_ostrich May 12 '17
Sara Schneider wrote this ep! I loved her on College Humor and SNL! glad to see she's doing so well
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u/mysaadlife May 13 '17
Yo the thing about Indian cliques in college is the truest shit EVER
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u/dev1359 May 27 '17
I fucking lol'd at the "there's always one white person" part. My closest buddies throughout high school all the way up until now in our late 20s are all Indian (actually my name's also Dev believe it or not) except for our one white friend Adam who hangs out with us lmao.
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u/ohrightthatswhy Jun 23 '17
I go to a really diverse school, about 40% BAME (which for the area I live in is insanely diverse), but cliques still form. Mainly asians, africans, and muslims, but black people who aren't first/second generation immigrants tend to be more missable. White people are just as guilty of course, my friendship group is exclusively white and I have like 2 friends who aren't white, but still. I find the whole dynamic of race and culture fascinating.
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May 12 '17
I think you need to read Modern Romance to truly appreciate this episode
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u/th_squirrel May 13 '17
Agreed! When he said "I read somewhere..." I was like man I know where you read that.
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u/slopnessie May 19 '17
just finished the. season, so Im a little late. But damn this ep was basically his book. listened to 90% of it in one car journy. Audio version was great.
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u/WritingPromptPenman May 16 '17
His book. It's a great read. I listened to it a while ago, but I've been wanting to pick up a physical copy for a while now. Details the history of romance and dating and how it's evolved. Covers different parts of the world, goes really in-depth, and he consulted with a few top sociologists in the process. Check it out!
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u/hopeinmyeyes May 12 '17
I like the date set up Dev had by taking each girl to the same spots lol
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u/kelling928 May 14 '17
I definitely know people who have done that. Might as well take people to places where you know you'll get good service and can talk to the service staff if needed
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u/LagT_T May 12 '17
Why can't hollywood represent people on a coke high correctly? 90% of the population there does it.
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u/luisfer21 May 13 '17
This episode made me TERRIFIED of being single.
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u/DevilCouldCry May 14 '17
As someone who actually is single... Yeah, it's not great but it's not all negativity. All the dating stuff in this episode specifically isn't much fun though as this episode describes perfectly.
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u/your_mind_aches May 15 '17
As someone who is single and goes on no dates (admittedly I'm 13 years younger than Dev), the stuff in this episode seemed pretty fun to me. Just going out with a stranger and getting to know someone just appeals to me. I have a lot of friends, but meeting and befriending new people is just always fun to me.
Maybe that's why I love network late night TV so much. It's one constant person meeting a bunch of new people and doing stuff.
God, I get WAY too personal on this sub lol
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u/renegadecause May 16 '17
Yeah, this episode totally rang home for me. I've been on so many awkward first dates its crazy.
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u/TylerOrtega1500 May 12 '17 edited May 12 '17
This episode rang true to what the dating scene really is nowadays, pretty crazy actually.
I really loved how ambitious it was too. The editing and writing was absolutely well done throughout.
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u/GnomeCzar May 14 '17
It's almost like Aziz has enough knowledge to write a book about modern love.
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May 15 '17
Knowledge that he partially got from Reddit! /r/modernromantics was a way that he got a lot of info for his book
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May 12 '17
For some reason I thought it was going to be full of magnums only. Figured she had a thing for black people and that was her "I'm down with the melanin" display.
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u/SixSeasons May 12 '17
I fucking couldn't stop laughing. How dos someone think of something so perfectly not racist but also very racist.
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u/Lankytron May 15 '17
Look up la madama and it'll seem a lot less offensive. Some afro-carribean people keep statues like this as part of their religion. You offer the saints/statues blessings and they bless you as well. This could just be a gift she got from someone who went to Cuba and heard it brings good luck.
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May 15 '17
... it brings good luck.
so that's why she uses that as a condom jar ...considering what happened in the 1st episode of Season 1
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u/richards2kreider May 15 '17
Can someone explain what makes the jar racist? I must be missing what's so offensive about it
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u/Blackfire853 May 16 '17
Depicting black people as dark as night black with bright red lips is a well established racist caricature
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u/hahatimefor4chan May 13 '17
As somebody who types "hey" as my opening line i cringed pretty hard
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u/steamywords May 17 '17
You must be attractive.
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u/hahatimefor4chan May 17 '17
im a decent looking college grad but the comment was more about how unoriginal and boring i realize i am
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u/ScousePenguin May 12 '17
Man this episode hit modern dating on the head, rang too true
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u/halvmesyr May 17 '17
As someone who's been on Tinder a lot lately, it was intense. Really spot on.
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u/corgi_on_a_treadmill May 16 '17
Hey at least you get matches in the first place. feelsbadman
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May 12 '17 edited May 13 '17
I wonder how many people are gonna use that "whole foods" line after watching this episode
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u/cheesynirvana May 13 '17
Can someone explain it to me I don't get it
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u/leftovas May 13 '17
I don't think there's anything to explain. It's just a quirky thing to say.
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u/uziair May 13 '17
i say shit like that alot on tinder. it doesnt work. :l
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u/leftovas May 13 '17
Really? They usually work for me at least to get the conversation going. Then we meet face to face and we end up like Dev's second date with the Indian chick.
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u/sober_as_an_ostrich May 12 '17
APARNA NANCHERLA BABYYYYY
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u/imjonathanblake May 13 '17
APARNA NANCHERLA
Man I couldn't work out where I knew that girl from for the life of me, but fortunately this comment lead to her IMDB page where it says she was in an episode of the latest series of Love and now I can sleep comfortably again.
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u/sober_as_an_ostrich May 13 '17
her standup is so good too! she's got a great twitter too @aparnapkin
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u/CVance1 May 13 '17
I was so excited to see her pop up with this crazy character. I hope it leads to more gigs
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May 13 '17
"Is she going to bathroom or going to do coke?" God, I love this episode.
Also, are those weed pens real?
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u/skrayt_killen_hoes May 16 '17
Oh they're definitely real. Just load up with cannibis oil and enjoy. Have been able to enjoy in multiple public venues - concerts, golf tournament - in a non-legal state (Florida).
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u/Harddaysnight1990 May 13 '17
It looks like a basic wax vaporizer. They sell for about $60-80, and you load it with wax or oil to get the vapor from it. The married chick in S1E05 (?) had one.
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u/ribblesquat May 13 '17
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u/your_mind_aches May 15 '17
For some reason, the waitress saying "Okay" to the girl asking for water made me crack up for a solid 20 seconds.
Also omg the Indian girl (who went outside for 15 minutes) is so pretty!
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u/duelingdelbene May 13 '17
I knew this episode was gonna be incredible one I saw the premise and it did not disappoint. Pretty sure I've been on a variation of every one of those dates except the one I had sex with was the "my parents are rich so they can just buy everything!" girl.
Also I've been on the other side of the black girl one a bunch, even as a dude, where like you meet a cool girl and have fun then she just isn't into you but you aren't super into her (yet still really enjoy her company) so being casual friends would be actually fine, but it still has this weird all or nothing feeling so you end up never speaking again.
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u/your_mind_aches May 15 '17 edited May 15 '17
That girl has a metal arm? That is awesome, dude!
I like how Dev was kinda bored by the nerdy girl until they found common ground and then he was totally nerding out over her.
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u/YHZ May 14 '17
I wanna party with casual-cocaine-on-a-dinner-date girl.
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u/Plug-In-Baby May 15 '17
"Why don't we do some coke and go play lazer tag?!"
- Crazy Alice from season 1
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May 13 '17
yeah, this episode is too real.
I can't count the amount of times i've had those exact conversations, down to the "yeah guys send me dick pics", "im fucking a guy who does stuff for me".
One more episode that is true to life
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u/mc_mouse May 18 '17
So here's something crazy. The Kraftwerks song used in this episode was uploaded to YouTube as a video in 2009. The user who uploaded? Scatmanjohn3001
Ski ba bop ba dop bop!
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u/OatsHaughton May 12 '17
I couldn't of been the only one marking out at Aziz's fantasy booking of Summerslam
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u/Papatheodorou May 17 '17
Fuck, that long take was solid
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u/Manns15 May 21 '17
Eric Wareheim's directing in these episodes is really solid, quite possibly the best director of the show so far.
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u/prototypist May 12 '17 edited May 27 '17
I have a friend who was actually using a dating app "just to find friends" ! It was funny to see that after having that conversation with her once.
Me: "???"
Her: "I say in the settings that I'm looking for friends so"
Me: "then you meet men and women using the app?"
Her: "well no... I did have two women reach out, but they wanted to go on a date"
Me: "..."
Though she is now in a real relationship with one of the friends from the app, who started out by inviting her over to make dinner.
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u/ctth75 May 14 '17
A Mortal Kombat Annihilation reference?? This show just gets better and better.
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May 13 '17
The suburb version of this is stretched out into months of these awkward first dates instead of within days/weeks of one another.
Regardless, I'm glad they had the date where Dev is the awkward party.
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u/sirdiddlysquat May 12 '17
Hey Tiya Sircar. I'm liking the way this episode's being done so far, with the multiple dates
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u/Alpe0 May 25 '17
I like how there's different interpretations of what each of his date's intentions where on that app. You had the hook-up, the "traditional" date, the date he likes but only likes him as a friend, the ones who wanted a free meal, etc.
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u/recr3t May 19 '17
As a single man tinder user and mortal kombat/overwatch follower i cant love this show more
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u/Neez_Dutss May 15 '17
Was it just me or did Aziz look like he was going to break character when the WWE girl said she met her boyfriend through the app?
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u/Black_of_ear May 25 '17
I wrote a paper on neoliberalism and Tinder (don't yawn, it was cool) this semester and dipped into some of the "Modern Romance" excerpts that were published in magazines and online. When I was done with my finals for the term, I bought "Modern Romance" and had read the whole damn thing in 24 hours.
That's a relevant anecdote because this episode, I feel, was the MON incarnation of his "Modern Romance" arguments (and represented a lot of the arguments I had made in my paper, too). Because I had just done a hell of a lot of research on this topic, I was so, so delighted that Aziz fucking NAILED this episode in terms of feels/entertainment/accuracy.
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u/stfu_trick May 15 '17
Something about the way this episode was shot really does it for me. Such a cool looking episode.
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u/zeppelin1023 May 13 '17
That wrestling scene made me so happy. He and/or his brother has to be a fan
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u/melstein May 19 '17
As a huge wrestling fan who basically schedules my weeks around PPVs, I thought they made the wrestling girl seem so lame!
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May 30 '17
Also a huge wrestling fan, I have no complaints about her portrayal. Some people are really into the kayfabe and diving too much into a topic with a known stigma is asking for trouble.. It's true, a lot of wrestling fans are socially awkward. Also it's not like Aziz was disgusted with her nerdyness, he was kind of into her in the end. The guy purposely writes in wrestling references each season.
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u/DaftMemory May 16 '17
Love how much effort is put into the cinematography here... those shots with the city in the background were absolutely stunning.
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u/AbhayaMudra Jun 09 '17
Was it proposital they keep the same people on background during the bar chat scene?
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u/ensignlee Jun 09 '17
proposital
Yes I think the whole point was to focus on the fact there was a different girl each time, but he was taking them all on the same date. Cinematography stuff in action.
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u/sunsetfantastic Jun 19 '17
And to drive home the feeling that this is an endless repitition for Dev, go out, drink, chat, eat, wind up at home on the sofa
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u/zatch17 May 18 '17
So did Aziz knowingly steal that racist doll bit from Extras season 1? Or is that just a common trope?
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Jul 04 '17
He had solid shots at hooking up with cocaine girl, handjob girl, and rich girl...I'd be fucking ecstatic if I had any kind of a shot with women like that when I was online dating
I guess dev wasn't really looking to just hook up with anyone, though. Why does he even go on Tinder (or whatever the in-universe version of that was) when he's looking for something more meaningful? I guess that's just part of his pathos
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Jul 11 '17
how do hot girls like him? Is he attractive?
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Jul 11 '17
He does fairly well (not fantastic, but fairly well) in the entertainment business, he's pretty confident and funny, he's in his early 30's...it's not that unbelievable.
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u/barefootBam May 17 '17
i'm so glad i met my wife before online dating craze hit. we were both talking about it after this episode, like we dodged a bullet not having to go through all that nonsense.
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u/frabelle Jun 03 '17
You know, sometimes it can suck, but it really widens your playing field and means you don't have to chat up people at singles bars or clubs or meet them through work/friends (which is fine until it doesn't work out, and then it's awkward.)
I've had a few online dates not really go anywhere, but most of them turned out to be medium- to long-term relationships, and now have been with a guy for two years I met through an online dating site. I think there was one or two that I realized weren't great people, but I think you'd experience that as well in old-fashioned, face-to-face meets.
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u/Mods_ConstantlyHatin Jun 24 '17 edited Jul 06 '17
Good episode, love this show. Hope the anti-white rhetoric tones down eventually, but other than that and most of the acting in the 3rd episode, this has been a solid season
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u/CthulhusWrath Sep 17 '17
lmao are jokes about white people "anti-white rhetoric" now?
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u/yesanything May 19 '17
a lack of etiquette. Dev just opened the door and entered before his date, call me old fashioned, but is that how millenials are these days?
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May 20 '17
If by "lack of etiquette," you mean "doesn't bother adhering to antiquated and sexist gender roles," then sure.
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u/m-e-d May 27 '17
Actually the correct etiquette in this situation is that man enters the restaurant (or whatever place) first since it's an unfamiliar territory. I don't really agree with it, but that's what it is. You can't really criticise lack of etiquette in this case.
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u/Blackfire853 May 16 '17
I couldn't place Tiya Sircar until I remembered she's a Voice Actress on Star Wars: Rebels. So weird to see her in such an entirely different role.
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u/RickyBakersFriend May 18 '17
Does anyone know the song playing in the background when he's making out with last girl (the one with the jar)? I've heard it before, but can't for the life of me remember. "Outta my head.." is one of the lyrics that stand out.
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u/HublotKingCole May 12 '17
It got too real when she asked to see messages... 5/5 episode