This is a Netflix series that premiered on the 27th of April, 2020. Never Have I Ever is a TV series about an Indian American High School student who had to deal with the death of her father. It is also an American coming of age comedy-drama television series starring Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and brought about the creation by Kaling's childhood story, of growing up in the Boston area.

Recieving a lot of reviews, the series has been viewed as a huge progressive moment for South Asia n representation in Hollywood and has been praised for breaking the Stereotype s nature of South Asian.

The public reception on the TV series was a very brilliant one as on Rotten Tomatoes, the series has an approval rating of 96% with an average rating of 7.75 (out of a total of 10).

The website's critical consensus reads, "Never Have I Ever's fresh take on the coming-of-age comedy is hilariously honest, sweetly smart, and likely to have viewers falling head over heels for charming newcomer Maitreyi Ramakrishnan."On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 80 out of 100 based on 18 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

The whole TV series rallies round Deci Vishwakumar (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan), a 15-year-old Tamil Indian American high school girl from Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles. After having a terrible freshman year, Devi wants to change her social status and appearance but friends, family and feelings are factors that she has to consider because they werent making it easy for her.

Devi lost the ability to make use of her legs for 3 months following the passing away of her father Mohan (Sendhil Ramamurthy). The following year, she tries to deal with her grief, Indian identity and school life, also struggling with her relationship with her mother, Nalini (Poorna Jagannathan), her beautiful cousin, Kamala (Richa Moorjani), her 2 best friends, Eleanor (Ramona Young) and Fabiola (Lee Rodriguez), her high school crush, Paxton (Darren Barnet), and her nemesis, Ben (Jaren Lewison).

The series has the nicest narration and was done by professional tennis player John McEnroe, with one of the episodes narrated by Andy Samberg.

Preview of the Episodes

1. After her dad dies and she is in a wheelchair for her freshman year, Devi comes up with a plan to have a good sophomore year.

She pleads with best friends Eleanor and Fabiola to get boyfriends, so that the group become cool.

However, when she discovers that Eleanor has a boyfriend, she has a breakdown and asks classmate Paxton if he wants to have sex.

Devi's cousin Kamala is told that her marriage is being arranged.

2. Devi leaves orchestra practice early to go to Paxton's house, but leaves when she does not feel ready to have sex.

Kamala meets with her secret boyfriend, and tells him that she cannot see him anymore due to her arranged marriage.

3. In history class, Devi is delighted when Paxton asks her to be in his group, but overhears him saying he asked her to get a good grade.

Eleanor and Fabiola team up with Eve, who Fabiola has a crush on.

Fabiola then breaks up with her boyfriend and realises she is gay.

Devi invites herself to a party, and sees Paxton flirting with Zoe.

A drunk Devi sees a coyote at the party, and believing it has the spirit of her dad, she talks to it.

It attacks her, and Paxton takes her to the hospital.

At the hospital, Paxton affirms that they are just friends.

Inspired by a Riverdale scene, Kamala reconciles with her boyfriend.

4. At a Hindu convention at the school, Devi's mother Nalini asks Devi to smooth talk Ron, who is a college admissions advisor.

Ron asks Devi to use her dad's death and her paralysis as a story to get into college, but she refuses.

At the convention, Kamala meets a woman who is shunned due to refusing her arranged marriage.

She tells Kamala to go ahead with her marriage.

5. Fabiola gathers her family members to come out, but avoids telling them.

Paxton tells Eleanor that her mother served them in a restaurant, despite her being told that she is working on a cruise as an actress.

Fabiola accompanies her to the restaurant, where they see her mother.

Afterwards, she comes out to Eleanor, who supports her.

Devi joins Model UN, and fuels the lie that she and Paxton are sleeping together.

She and nemesis Ben join forces to get the members alcohol.

The next day, Devi turns against him in UN, and gets the members to**** stand alongside her. Paxton then confronts her and asks why she would use him.

6. Ben returns home from Model UN to his mother leaving for a self realisation resort.

Planning to see a game court-side with his girlfriend and father, both cancel on him, so he gives the tickets to his housekeeper.

Feeling lonely, he meets with a friend from an online forum, who turns out to be a 50-year-old man.

Ben sees Nalini about a pimple, and she invites him to a dinner with her and the Vishwakumars.

Initially upset with Ben coming over, Devi is pleasantly surprised when he does not expose her behavior at Model UN.

Voiceover by Andy Samberg

7. Devi tries to make it up to Eleanor and Fabiola.

She visits Eleanor's mother and tells her to talk to Eleanor.

She comes to the school and watches Eleanor rehearse for the play, but leaves midway through to go back to broadway.

Distraught, Eleanor quits acting.

Fabiola asks Devi to support her, but when Paxton texts her, she goes to his house instead.

8. Eleanor and Fabiola decide to take a break from Devi, so she goes to see her therapist.

She tells Devi that all the drama is coming from the grief over her dad, and Devi says that she wants a new therapist.

Ben throws a party for his birthday, and after Devi finds Kamala with boyfriend Steve, she makes Kamala sneak her to the party.

After Devi learns that a classmate ruined the punch, she sees Fabiola about to drink it.

She goes to swipe the drink from her, but accidentally spills the bowl of punch over her.

Fabiola argues with her in front of the crowd, and accidentally comes out.

Eve, who overheard, arranges a date with her.

After Devi falls in the pool, Paxton takes her home and kisses her.

9. Kamala's arranged husband meets with the family over lunch for the first time.

Devi enters Kamala's room to place a present that she got only to find that Steve is in there, waiting to rescue Kamala from her arranged marriage.

At Devi's behest, Kamala talk with Steve to sort things out.

Nalini walks in on them and reveals that she knew about the two as a couple.

Paxton arrives to return Devi's dress from the party, and accidentally reveals that Devi secretly attended Ben's party and that she and Paxton kissed.

Nalini, enraged, yells at Paxton for "ruining" Devi's life.

Devi's uncle reveals that Nalini is planning on moving them both to India.

Devi gets in a fight with Nalini, and refuses to move.

10. Paxton avoids Devi following the incident with Nalini.

Devi moves in with Ben so that she cannot be moved to India.

Nalini visits her on Mohan's birthday and asks her to spread her father's ashes with her, but she refuses.

To convince Devi to spread the ashes with Nalini, Ben enlists the help of Fabiola and Eleanor, who reconcile their friendship.

They encourage Devi to go, so Ben takes her to Malibu.

Devi, Nalini and Kamala spread Mohan's ashes and she agrees to move back in with them.

Returning to Ben's car, the pair kiss.

Meanwhile, Paxton, at his sister's urging to reconcile with Devi, leaves her a message while waiting at her front door.

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