Master of None's second season did some really cool things I wish more TV shows would do *no spoilers*

So I finally got around to watching the second season of MoN, which I enjoyed a lot. I'm keeping this spoiler free for those that haven't seen it yet just as a courtesy. Here are the two particular things that I really enjoyed:

• About 5-10 minutes of one episode follows a girl around who is deaf, so the episode goes completely silent. No music, background noise, dialogue, nothing. You just follow her around for 5-10 minutes (it does put up subtitles for the sign language) and live in her world of absolute silence, and then the episode goes on like normal.

• At the end of another episode, it ends on sort of a dreary/gloomy atmosphere. Aziz's character gets frustrated with someone who is with him in a taxi, that character leaves, and then we follow him home. It's probably the remaining 3 minutes of the episode with the camera just watching Aziz's face. He's on his phone and has this dreary look on his face. He doesn't say a word until the end when they get to his apartment when he says thanks to the cab driver, but we just watch him contemplate in silence for 3 minutes.

Both of these segments just really resonated with me, because it showed that the show wasn't afraid to let things sit. So often, TV shows have to always be moving and something has to always be happening. We see the big emotional moments, but we don't tend to see the small moments, and these things (particularly the second one) gave a huge dose of it. The writers (of which I know Aziz is one of them) aren't afraid to present complex situations and then let us actually sit there and absorb them during the show's runtime.

I also really liked the segment with the deaf woman, simply for how long it went. Normally something like that wouldn't last any longer than 30 seconds or a minute or so, as I feel most executives would think it was too weird or abnormal and wouldn't let it go longer. I didn't clock how long it actually went for, but it was a really long time, and I loved that they didn't just dip their toes into it - they gave that segment the time it needed to develop, and then moved on.

It was just a real breath of fresh air to see a show that isn't afraid to actually slow things down, enjoy the little things, and actually make us think a little bit. I'm really excited if/when the third season comes.

Submitted August 03, 2019 at 07:22PM by WhiteWolfofUtah https://ift.tt/2KjW8Hm