I could not get into the Pino/Francesca/Dev love triangle. It was pretty typical for one of those, and I have to say that when you get down to it, while I don't love any triangles anymore I'm more on board with "heroine has to pick between two guys representing different thematic stuff" than "guy wants the perfect cool woman who is inexplicably with another guy who ignores her".
"Thanksgiving" was great! Totally agree that it was handled very well, and also that Denise and Dev's friendship was otherwise very downplayed this season. Too much love triangle!! That said, I did really enjoy the black-and-white episode (possibly just because of how well Aziz Ansari speaks Italian).
He also said he feels he'd have to be married or something to write about that, but I'm not sure that's true. Jane Austen wrote romance novels, and she never married. "Write what you know" is a very misleading notion.
I think it really depends how you define "know". The majority of Austen's work is about awkward social situations and people being idiots or jerks, which anyone observant can know about, and the romance is largely buried until the end. She didn't get married, but whether or not she went through courtships is kind of up for debate, and she definitely observed them through her sister, niece, etc. So I think if he really wanted to write a season three, he could look at and talk to his friends in long-term relationships ... but tbh, he could have just written S2 to not be all about him getting together with Francesca. (Does he have the experience of being the second leg in a love triangle?)
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Date: 2017-05-21 02:27 pm (UTC)"Thanksgiving" was great! Totally agree that it was handled very well, and also that Denise and Dev's friendship was otherwise very downplayed this season. Too much love triangle!! That said, I did really enjoy the black-and-white episode (possibly just because of how well Aziz Ansari speaks Italian).
He also said he feels he'd have to be married or something to write about that, but I'm not sure that's true. Jane Austen wrote romance novels, and she never married. "Write what you know" is a very misleading notion.
I think it really depends how you define "know". The majority of Austen's work is about awkward social situations and people being idiots or jerks, which anyone observant can know about, and the romance is largely buried until the end. She didn't get married, but whether or not she went through courtships is kind of up for debate, and she definitely observed them through her sister, niece, etc. So I think if he really wanted to write a season three, he could look at and talk to his friends in long-term relationships ... but tbh, he could have just written S2 to not be all about him getting together with Francesca. (Does he have the experience of being the second leg in a love triangle?)