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Roads lead you nowhere when you don't know where you are going!

Master of None (Season 3, Ep 1 - 5; 2021) Netflix After riding high with the first two seasons of 'Master of None ', Aziz Ansari got entangled with a nasty sexual assault claim that took much of the bejesus out of him. Maybe because of that, this season is not much about Aziz Ansari and his co-creator Alan Yang. If the earlier seasons were light comedies looking at the lives of first-generation immigrants and their interaction with their parents, this one is anything but funny.  Aziz only appears as a co-star in two instances. Viewing the first episode itself, I had a certain deja vu feeling that  I had seen all that before. Then it clicked. It reminded me so much of Ingmar Bergman painfully slow 1973 miniseries, 'Scenes from a Marriage'. This season centres around Denise (Lena Waithe), one of Dev's (Ansari) close friends. We know previously that she is a lesbian. She is now a thriving author living in the quiet countryside with her partner, Alicia. They seem to be ...