Updated On: 28 April, 2020 07:16 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
By being, on the surface, a fine, feisty purveyor of the web, binge, celebrity/pop culture, as it were. Sure enough, we continue to remain collectors/hunters of current cool. As we should; keeps us healthy in the head, I guess.

Never Have I Ever

Have watched an episode of Riverdale, and moved on rather quickly, knowing that it isn't a show for good ol' Archie Andrews readers from '90s (like me). Sex Education, on the other hand, I couldn't take beyond the first few minutes, feeling mentally quite distant from the high-school campus it's set in. To extend the same logic, Never Have I Ever is so not my kinda show. And?
So what! Seriously, that's what was simultaneously playing on my mind as, episode after episode, I found myself so naturally gravitating to the world of mid-teenagers, chiefly led by a 'Kevin Arnold level of naturalness' Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as the breezy, bright Devi — her BFFs, her nerdy competitor in class, hunk for a crush in a California high-school; a strong, single mom (Poorna Jagannathan) at home, a dead dad in heaven, the works.