![]() Initially pompous and stand-offish towards him, she begins to soften when, at a retirement party for a former mentor, they bond over being single parents. ![]() The B-story focuses on developing Nalini’s forthcoming romance with rival dermatologist Dr. ![]() For once, a protagonist feels the full weight of repercussions. It’s refreshing and even a little bit endearing. Everyone around her firmly reiterates that she is at fault and needs to find a way to apologize to Aneesa. When she demands to know why she got suspended when the two other girls got a slap on the wrist, her principal lays it out for her: She purposely sabotaged an investigation, lied to everyone, and let two (comparatively) innocent girls take the fall for it.Īlso unlike those aforementioned cynical sitcom protagonists, Devi doesn’t have that one friend who insists she’s right and sides with her on everything her friends and family don’t stick up for her or concoct some crazy scheme to help her find an easy way out of this. The thing that differentiates Never Have I Ever from those shows is that Devi is not able to wiggle her way out of it using charm and charisma because, frankly, she doesn’t have either of those things. As she’s leaving school, she begs Aneesa to talk to the principal, but Aneesa tells her off for being selfish, calling her worse than the girls at the private school she transferred out of.ĭevi is like pretty much every other main character in a sitcom with a cynical lead character: reckless, destructive, sometimes even downright cruel. Devi looks to her mom and begs her to do something, to which Nalini tells her that her actions have consequences. As a result, Aneesa tells the school principal, who informs Devi that she is suspended. Finally, at a sleepover with her three friends, Devi fesses up to starting the rumor. The school principal tells the two girls that they are kicked off the winter dance committee, and Devi has completely evaded any consequence for her actions, or so you would think.ĭevi’s guilt eats her up as she watches Aneesa sink deeper into a depression. For once, Devi being incredibly forgettable worked in her favor. ![]() To her absolute surprise, neither of them remember where they heard the comments from. ![]() Finally, they’re interviewing Shira and her best friend, the two people Devi had originally made the “Aneesa is anorexic” comments to. the most logical thing to do.Īs her friends get closer and closer to the culprit, Devi’s anxiety skyrockets. When it goes nowhere, Fabiola and Eleanor hop on the case and insist they work backwards, a.k.a. Aneesa, skeptically, follows her new friend’s lead. At first, she insists that working backwards by asking each student where they heard the rumor from is a bad idea, despite everyone else’s objections, because she knew all roads would lead back to her. We’ve all at some point had the experience of saying something malicious about someone that eventually comes back to bite us in the butt, especially in high school, where students love nothing more than to gossip and throw each other under the bus.ĭevi tries her best to throw everyone off her scent by insisting that she lead the school administration’s effort to track down the individual who started the rumor (which turned out to be factual) that Aneesa has an eating disorder. Compared to Devi’s cheater arc at the beginning of the season, this particular mess she’s gotten herself into is far more believable. ![]()
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