After nearly four years away, Netflix's
Master of None—a passion project of creators Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang—is back for Season 3. But Season 3 takes a different approach; where Season 1 and 2 focused on the character of Dev (Ansari) as he navigated different slice of life topics (but mostly focused in on dating and relationships), Season 3 shifts the lens to his friend Densie (Lena Waithe) for a truncated season focusing on her marriage to a new character, a woman named Alicia (
Naomie Ackie).
At only five episodes, the season is half the length of the first two installments. And where Ansari's Dev was previously the primary focus of the show, he now only appears as an ancillary character. The show's sort of wide-ranging comedic lens instead shifts to one clearly inspired by legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's