A still from season 3 of ‘Master of None’
Aziz Ansari turns director as new season focuses on the relationship between two Black, queer women played remarkably by Lena Waithe and Naomi Ackie
Unlike the first two seasons of
Master of None, which featured the adventures in love and life of a young actor Dev Shah (Aziz Ansari), the third season focuses on Dev’s friend, Denise (Lena Waithe). Now a successful writer, and happily married to Alicia (Naomi Ackie), living in a beautiful house in Upstate New York, Denise seems to living the dream.
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âI was like, What?!
Master of None? Itâs coming back?!â said the BAFTAâwinning actor (
The End of the F
ing World) who played newcomer Jannah in 2018âs
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
Ackie learned that Ansari was plotting a return when she booked an audition for the lauded Netflix series. Her first impulse was to resist reading anything she received, to spare herself from spoilers. âBut then I was like, Oh, wait. They want me to act in it. Let me just switch over from fan to actor,â laughed Ackie. âThe audition process was really quick. I did the first one remotely, then the second one with [series cowriter and star]
Here s Everything Coming to Netflix This Week (Week of May 23)
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It s the last full week of May, and Netflix is celebrating with a week full of original content releases. Though
Home (2015) is being added to the service on Tuesday, every other film or show added to the streamer is original content. Things kick off on Sunday with the third season of
Master of None, with the show pivoting from Aziz Ansari s Dev Shah to a new plot involving Lena Waithe s Denise. Naomi Ackie stars alongside Waithe, who co-wrote the season with Ansari. Ansari directed every episode.
Come midweek, things really start to pick up, with new documentaries and other originals. Additions like
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House of the Dragon is coming to HBO in 2022 – and the first spin-off of Game of Thrones is finally filming now, two years after the fantasy drama ended. Official images of the series have already been released by HBO, along with cast information and detailed character synopses that give us an idea of what to expect from the story.
Based on George RR Martin s Targaryen-focused 2018 book Fire and Blood, the series is set 300 years before the events of Game of Thrones. It s a Targaryen-centric show that will tell the story of that bloodline, and it takes place after a new king of Westeros, Viserys Targaryen (Paddy Considine), assumes the throne.