Season 2 picks up where Season 1 left off. After traveling abroad, Dev returns to New York to take on challenges in his personal and family life, a new career opportunity, and a complex, developing relationship with someone very meaningful to him.
The palette is more expansive... There is the same gentle observational humour, but also a meditative, almost indie-film-like sensibility, along with a willingness to experiment with form.
Perhaps the biggest selling point of Master of None: even as it demonstrates a greater sense of confidence and ambition with season 2, it remains a downright charming, watchable, low-key series.
Shah's tender approach to everything from lasagna to courting could easily go down like a sugar overdose, but our hero is so earnest in his search for life's simple pleasures that you still want to kiss him on the forehead.
After Rachel left for Japan last season, his head was about to become a dark place. But these opening episodes clear away the shadows, and let in the light.
It's a hysterical, complex, gorgeous season of television, one that builds on what creators Aziz Ansari & Alan Yang accomplished in the first year in unexpected ways.