Feminist, funny and political, that’s why you’ll love My First Times on Netflix

On August 12, 2022, the third season of my first times was released on Netflix. This article is dedicated to our dear readers who would have missed the first two trains and would be missed this series created by Mindy Kaling and located while at the top of the basket of the best Netflix offers.

Ultra fun, fun and easy to use real sour candy binge observer, my first times and also a political series And deep in many ways. Here you are the reasons which make it a real nugget, voted by the magazine as Netflix’s best teen series Forbes.

Everything we love, only better

If you’re looking for a terribly moving series, you’ve come to the right place. the pin from my first times it’s stupid like the series is smarter than it looks like: You have to, Indian teenager living in California he decides to change his status as an invisible nerd into become popular. All the ingredients of the adolescent program touch–Good there are: a high school, the life of a teenager, her friends and family, party scenes and pajama partiesa love triangle and a handsome guy so handsome he is unrealistic.

On paper, the series invites us to curl up in our comfort zone. Only, from this base made up of clichés of the genre (of which we will certainly never tire), he brings in all discretion and in all humility an originality, an intelligence And a writing remarkablewhich in the end they do much more than one teen-series among others.

A writing lesson

In addition to being a very accessible entertainment, my first times it is extremely well written. During the three seasons, there is no downtime either cliffhanger lazy. Each episode lasts only twenty or thirty minutes and it seems to move at a dizzying speed at the rate of intelligent, intelligent and sparkling dialogues. On the Internet, most viewers of the series testify that they devoured it in a weekend (and I add my own testimony, here refers).

We are often surprised laugh out loud and … a to cry. Why yes: behind her apparent lightness, my first times Give me some scenario lessons dramas that promise to deliver great emotional moments.

The representation of mourning

Among the most surprising qualities of my first timesthere is the accuracy with which the series treats the ache. Despite the avoidance attitude shown by an over-excited and overly talkative Devi, we learn it heroin has lost her fatherdied suddenly of a heart attack a year earlier.

On the surface, all is well for Devi, who is still determined to achieve her goals and resolve her heart and friendship issues through schemes and cheating. But quickly, her staging makes us understandignore this trauma it won’t do anything to fix it. This denial results in sequences of great beautyeven when Devi’s legs simply stop working, or her father appears as a flashback or benevolent presence when he needs him.

The series does not send this mourning. He takes the time to let these things happen different steps in everything they can have strangefrom shocking you hate disconcertingshowing once again a remarkable realism.

An inclusive and largely female cast for a feminist series

When we take stock, we realize that in my first times, there are mainly chicks. Devi is a radiant character. It takes about twelve seconds to identify to her. Full of paradoxes, Devi is like that control freak that becomes clumsy. Summarizes all the contradictions who can meet us when we are a young woman. You have to juggle standard (of femininity, candor, etc.), her desires, the expectations of her loved ones, and the management of her traumas …

Nevertheless, secondary characters have nothing to envy him. From best friends Eleanor and Fabiola, to cousin Kamala or mother Nalini, it offers an almost exclusively female cast portraits of women of rare wealth. From disability to coming out, passing through the question of marriage or career, the series deals with women’s and feminist issues important avoiding stereotypes.

Double culture, a real subject

FINALLY a series that deals properly origins, identity, cultural struggle ! The series gives a place of honor to Indian culture, in many moments of dialogue, marriage, meals, family … However, the questions that run through Devi are of such relevance thatit’s hard not to identify it to you, whatever the origins you come from.

Unlike other programs (and especially French films that to worship present the cultures of origin as a place that rhymes only with oppression and suffering), my first times start a much more interesting and complex relationship, in the image of this reality.

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