'Never Have I Ever': Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Mindy Kaling on Why Season 3 Is All About Team Devi (Exclusive)

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season 3 of Netflix's the year of Devi? Ask series star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and executive producer/co-creator Mindy Kaling and they'd say so, even with Devi beginning the season in unfamiliar territory: Her social status is up as she embarks on a new committed relationship with her «dream» guy, Paxton.

But, it being and all, there's room for love triangles and even love squares. «The romance is obviously so fun and we love those sexy situations and all the awkwardness and all the observations about that,» Kaling told ET's Denny Directo over Zoom on Monday. «But ultimately, this show, we wanted it to be about a young woman who has gone through some trauma and have her heal.

There’s setbacks and then there’s times when she does a lot of growth. That is the most important to me and that’s why it’s so joyous to have Maitreyi playing this part because she’s so funny in the first episode [of season 3] alone, which I wrote.»«But it is these moments with her dad or with her therapist, played by the wonderful Niecy Nash, where you get what is under the layers of...

trying to be cool. She’s gonna be okay, so that’s the most important part of the show for me,» she noted. «It's definitely a Team Devi season.» follows the complicated life of a modern-day first-generation Indian American teenage girl, Devi (Ramakrishnan), an overachieving high schooler with a short fuse that gets her into difficult situations.