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There’s a dash ofUnder The Tuscan Sunhere, a soupcon ofManhattanthere.

Aziz Ansari, star and co-creator (with Alan Yang), is an ingenious, self-aware pop plunderer.

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Here, that object is our modern equivalent a cell phone.

Does he go back and make a move?

Does he truly dig her or is he peak lonely?

Does he dare subvert his friends' relationship just to find out?

is both comical and suspenseful.

His rash international adventure, his prolific serial dating, his what-the-hell?

new job host of a competitive cooking show calledCupcake Wars!

A sequence in episode 2, also set in Italy, functions as a turn-key allegory.

Dev and Arnold pack themselves into a small car and go searching for a wedding at an Italian villa.

They get lost and find themselves debating whether to make a tight turn into a very narrow street.

They take the chance and get stuck.

Such is the season.

(I’m trying not to spoil.)