Master of None · Season 2 · Netflix
Master of None Season 2
Master of None Season 2 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 9.2/10. 10 episodes on Netflix from 12 May 2017.
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What BollyAI Thinks
Shot partly in Italy in black-and-white, Season 2 arrived in May 2017 and matched Season 1's perfect Rotten Tomatoes score while raising the formal ambition. Critics flagged the eleven-minute pasta-making opening as an immediate statement of intent. The season wore its Italian neorealist influences openly - Fellini and Antonioni are felt in the compositions and the pacing - while telling a slow-burn love story with Alessandra Mastronardi. The premiere episode "The Thief," shot in monochrome and near-silent, became the season's defining showpiece. Ansari won a second Emmy for writing. The finale divided opinion but cemented the season as the show's creative peak for most critics.
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- E1The Thief9.5
Shot in black-and-white in Modena, the season opener devotes its first eleven minutes almost entirely to the art of pasta-making. A formally audacious and disarming statement that the show will do whatever it wants.
The moment: The opening pasta sequence - unhurried, reverential, oddly moving - that announces a complete change of register from Season 1.
Season Over Season
Season 2 raises the formal register dramatically over Season 1 - trading New York realism for Italian cinema pastiche - and the gamble mostly pays off.