- I'm Lee Rodriguez
- And, I'm Ramona Young
- And we're gonna break down everything
that happened in season one of Never Have I Ever
(upbeat music)
- This is Davy Vishwakumar, she's a sophomore
at Sherman Oaks High School, and our all
American Hindu girl in San Fernando Valley.
- This school year, she has three goals.
- One
- Get invited to a party with hard drugs and alcohol.
- Two.
- She would love for her arm hair to thin out.
- Three.
- She really, really would like a boyfriend.
- And, definitely not a nerd.
- Like a guy from sports team, he can be dumb, I don't care.
- These are her parents, Nalini and Mohan.
- Things got really weird and sad when her dad died,
unexpectedly, during a music recital,
and then Devi's legs stopped working.
- Until she saw Paxton Hall-Yoshida,
and then suddenly she could walk again.
(Nalini yelling excitedly)
- Paxton HY is, only the hottest guy at Sherman Oaks,
and he's the captain of the swim teams.
Devi convinces her two super hot
and definitely not nerdy best friends
to rebrand and get boyfriends this school year.
- Boyfriends? - Boyfriends?
- There's Fabiola, played by me, she's a captain
of the robotics team and loves a practical polo.
- And, I play Eleanor, a budding thespian
on the cusp of womanhood.
- Oh, we forgot to mention, Ben Gross.
- He's Devi's rival, and his dad's rich,
and he calls our group of friends the UN.
- It's racist and offensive, and-
- What, oh, the United Nations, no, we call you the UN
because you're unfuckable nerds.
- Devi goes to see her therapist, super hot smarty,
Dr. Ryan, Dr. Ryan tells her to do something
this year that will make her feel good.
She 1000% takes it the wrong way and.
- Asks Paxton to have sex with her.
- I am such an idiot, I'm so sorry,
I can't believe I just did that.
- Yeah, okay.
- What?
- Plot twist, he agrees.
- Oh, but she lies to her friends, and makes it seem like
it was Paxton who put the moves on her.
- I wanna get to know you better.
- And I was like, "yeah, I mean, sure,
"I guess that could be cool."
- Yes.
- Eleanor, Fab, and Devi have a sleepover to learn more
about sex from the most trusted source
they can, the internet, meanwhile,
Devi's shockingly beautiful cousin, Kamala,
is being set up to be a perfect Indian wifey,
but it turns out she's not so perfect.
- She has a boyfriend at Caltech named Steve, but they can't
be together because of the whole arranged marriage thing.
- Okay, back to Devi, now that Devi has boosted
her sex confidence, she goes to Paxton's.
Except things go left, Paxton sees her talking
to his sister, Rebecca, and he calls it off.
- I don't think this is gonna work,
you should probably just go.
- And, just when she's about to break it to her friends
about what happened, they rave about how
they can just tell Devi did it with Paxton.
- You don't even have to say another word,
I can already tell you're not a virgin anymore.
- In that moment, Devi realizes she can't tell them
the truth, to her, hooking up with Paxton
is the best thing for her high school career.
- So, she goes along with it.
- Yeah, no, it's crazy, I can't believe I'm a woman now.
- But, there's still hope, Paxton apologizes
to Devi about freaking out.
- And, Devi tries to hook up with Paxton again,
but he tells her it's super weird
and that they're better off as friends.
- It just got weird, you know?
- Ouch.
- Mmhmm.
- Paxton even asks her to be a part of a group project.
- You wanna be in my group?
- Leaving Fab and Elle to work with Ben and Eve.
Unsurprisingly, Ben starts throwing shade
at queen D while they're working together.
- You're totally useless without your commander in dork.
- Devi, is no dork, she's a trailblazing Indian diva
that marches to the beat of her own drummer.
- Devi's girls are ovi going to defender her, she's cool,
they tell 'em, she's sleeping with the Paxton HY.
- Uhuh, yeah, right.
- This is important, you'll find out too soon why.
- Back to Devi and Paxton, Devi attends
her very first high school party.
She gets super drunk, and super rude,
and thinks her dead dad is a coyote.
- It's a whole thing.
- The coyote attacks her, so sober hottie, Paxton HY scoops
her up and drives her to the hospital.
While they're there, he posts a selfie with her,
and follows, and tags her on Instagram, a feed post people.
- Devi's grounded, because her mom is super pissed
about her going to a hardcore teen rager.
But on the flip side, she's now famously known
as Coyote Girl around school.
- Coyote Girl, (howls) Coyote Girl!
(class cheering and applauding)
Coyote Girl!
- Meanwhile, Fabiola has a huge crush on Eve,
but she doesn't know exactly how to deal
with those feelings, so she tells the only person she can,
her trusty robot, Gears Brosnin.
- I'm gay.
("Don't Stop Dreaming")
- And, that brings us to Ganesh Puja, baby.
- Ganesh Puja, is a Hindu holiday celebrating Lord Ganesh.
Devi, never felt super Indian,
so Ganesh Puja is kind of weird for her.
Luckily, she had one goal for the day,
and that's to track down this basic white dude, Ron,
and convince him to let her into Stanford.
- Ron, is an admissions counselor, and married
to what I assume is a goddess of an Indian woman.
- But don't worry, Devi totally puts him in his place
when he tries to tell her the only unique thing
about her is how her dad died and left her paralyzed.
- Then what makes you interesting?
- Oh, I don't know, Ron, maybe it's my perfect grades,
or my killer test scores, or maybe
it's my bitching personality,
or my insane PowerPoint skills.
- And to top it off, Paxton HY tells her
she looks fire in her sari.
- You look cool in that outfit.
- But, that doesn't save her from still being grounded.
- However, devious Devi has a plan to get out of it.
She overhears Ben talking about the Model UN trip,
an overnighter, so Devi breaks her pact
with Ben and goes on the trip.
- What the hell, this is a clear violation of our pact.
- If you're curious what the pact was,
basically Ben and Devi split clubs
and extracurricular activities and vowed
to stay off each other's turf, Model UN was Ben's thing.
- You're joking, that was in sixth grade.
- This is my turf.
- Devi is a rebel though, and figures
that's her way out of house arrest.
- Genius.
- Meanwhile, Fabiola holds a family meeting,
and tries to tell her family she's gay,
but coming out isn't easy, so she freaks
out and instead tells her family.
- I am switching from AP French to AP Latin this year.
- And, just when things seemed to be going smoothly
for Elle, Paxton tells her that her mom was
his waitress at Casa Mexico.
- She was cool, gave us extra chips.
- What, that's impossible.
- Backstory, Eleanor's mom left
when she was young to pursue an acting career,
and she hasn't seen her mom since.
And, according to the postcard Eleanor just got in the mail,
her mom is performing on a cruise docked in Cancun.
So, obviously Eleanor doesn't believe him.
- You don't know what the hell you're talking about.
- But of course, she wants to confirm this for herself.
- Eleanor goes to Casa Mexico,
and lo and behold, her mom is there.
- Talk about an unwelcome surprise, Eleanor is crushed.
- You're here, and this is your job, what's happening?
- I can explain.
- Nothing ice cream can't fix, right?
While they're housing a couple of pints of ice cream
and in their feels, Fabiola comes out to Eleanor.
- I'm sorry that I didn't tell you sooner,
I honestly just realized.
- Don't you dare apologize to me.
- Major.
- Okay, well, let's get back to Devi.
The Model UN trip is going great for Devi.
- She's demolishing Ben
and getting star treatment from her roommates.
- That's because one of her roommates overheard Ben telling
Devi, he knows she's sleeping with Paxton.
- You're an inspiration to us.
- And, when Ben and Devi team up with Russian
to pull off a wine heist for the Model UN nerds,
Devi is feeling unstoppable.
- Until she wakes up
to a bunch of WTF texts from Paxton.
- Yeah, lying about having sex with someone is wrong.
And in Devi's case, that meant
her relationship with Paxton was over.
- Now, Devi is pissed, and the only person
she feels responsible for this is Ben.
- It's really Fab and Elle's fault,
but we'll keep that between us.
- Ben and Devi are back to being enemies, again.
- Equatorial Guinea would like
to formally request permission to nuke the United States.
- Next, we get an inside look at Ben's life.
- Ben, is home alone again, abandoned by his mom,
who's off to a self-actualization retreat in Santa Barbara.
And then, his dad cancels plans to go see the Clippers game.
- And, if things couldn't get worse, somehow
this horrible night results in a massive zit on Ben's face.
- With all that going on, Ben has a breakdown
at superstar dermatologist and Devi's mom, Nalini's office.
Nalini, feels bad for the guy, so she brings him home
for dinner and Devi ain't happy about it one bit.
- Oh hell no.
- The actual dinner goes really well though.
Ben says some sweet things about Devi
to her fam, and they get really vulnerable with each other.
Are those sparks flying?
- Vulnerability is key.
- Back to Devi's big problem, Devi decides
that the best way she can avoid the whole lying
about sleeping with Paxton situation is by being invisible.
- What she fails to realize is that,
she actually is still invisible at school,
and even more now that Paxton has actively chosen
to give her the cold shoulder.
- In the midst of all this, Fab and Elle have a new friend.
Jonah. - Jonah.
- Don't hate me, I got cheese fries
and chili fries for the tape.
- He's been showing up more than Devi has,
and Fab and Elle appreciate him for that.
- When Devi realizes all that she's missed
in her friend's lives, she decides
to do something to make it up to Fab and Elle.
- Her solution, a girls only, Jonah free, slumber party.
But, Jonah is so great that Fab and Elle won't stop talking
about him the whole night, so at another attempt
to win her friends back, Devi goes
to Casa Mexico to talk to Eleanor's mom.
- She encourages her to talk to Eleanor in person,
and the next day Joyce shows up at the school
and tells Elle what really happened.
- I was fired from the cruise, I was dumped in Jamaica
with nothing but my suitcase and another woman
whose husband had fallen off the ship.
- Oh mom.
- They have a heart-to-heart conversation,
and Joyce tells Elle she wants to be the mom she deserves.
- In a sweet mother-daughter moment, they decide
to bake cookies together for the PTA Bake Sale.
Since the gang is all there, it ends up being
a bonding sesh with Elle's mom,
and Joyce learns a lot about the girls.
- Paxton, Devi knows all about him, they used to be lovers.
(Joyce gasps)
- Yup, Paxton and me totally happened.
- This is the where things really take a turn.
While Joyce's mom is talking to Nalini and Fab's mom,
at least, she casually brings up
that Devi and Fabiola have love lives.
- Love lives, no, no, no, they're too young
for love, and frankly, to have a life.
- And to make matters worse.
- Because, in this circle things mostly do get worse.
- Joyce, blurts out that Devi is having sex with Paxton.
- And mama Vishwakumar goes bonkers.
- What, Devi is having what?
- To save her butt, Devi admits to everyone that
she's never had sex with Paxton,
and that it was a big, fat, virgin lie.
- I never kissed him or anyone, I lied to everyone, okay,
I'm a big virgin fraud.
- Tea, and Fab and Elle realize that
Devi has been lying to them all along.
- On the bright side, Fab and her mom have a heart-to-heart
after all that nonsense, Fabiola tells her mom
that she's gay, and it goes really well.
- Wait, is that what you called
that weird family meeting about AP Latin?
- Yeah.
- So, you can switch back to French, oh, thank God.
- Speaking of parents, Elle's mom sits in on her rehearsal.
But, what should have been a great day for Elle ends up
being one of the worst days.
- Inspired by seeing her daughter in the theater,
Joyce feels called to give Broadway one more shot,
she leaves a letter for Eleanor and heads out.
How could she, Joyce is gone, and this destroys Elle
so much that she quits the play and has a meltdown.
- Fab, tries to get Devi to come help,
so they can both be there for their friend.
But, Devi gets a text from Paxton
that she can't help but answer, he needs her.
- Instead of coming to Elle's rescue, Devi is convinced
she can help Paxton out and make it
back in time for her friends.
- Turns out, Paxton only needed Devi to help his sister out
by modeling, this clearly takes more than a few minutes,
by the time she's done, it's too late.
Eleanor is devastated and she's sworn off theater for good.
- Rest in peace drama Elle, in the meantime,
it's Ben's 16th birthday and his parents go
out of town again, leaving him the house
and the wild suggestion to throw a party.
- Devi, asks Fab and Elle if they wanna go
to Ben's party together, but they've had enough of Devi,
and tell her that they wanna take a friend break.
- We just need some space right now, maybe losing us
will make you appreciate our friendship a little bit more.
- At the party, Ben is the only one
who actually acknowledges Devi, he gives her a tour
of his house and attempts to kiss her, not once, but twice.
And this freaks Devi out.
- Okay, now it's weird.
- After that awkward situation, Devi sees Fabiola about
to drink Trent's gross bowl juice, and tries to save her.
- But instead, she accidentally spills
the punch all over Fab's fly white outfit.
- What the hell, Devi, this suit
is Anjelica Huston for Kohl's,
I spent all my science fair winnings on it.
- This adds fuel to the fire, and Fabiola explodes.
- She tells Devi how much of a horrible friend she's been,
and she comes out to the whole school.
- Dammit, you just made me come out to our whole class.
- Next thing you know, Devi falls into Ben's swimming pool,
- The drama, but things take a bit
of a turn for the romantic.
- Eve, consoles Fab after the big fight,
and Fab finally asks her out on what she says,
isn't a date, but come on now.
- That sounds right, let's do it.
- Oh, I think you guys are gonna have a really nice time.
- Meanwhile, Paxton gives Devi some dry clothes
to change into, and drives her home.
The temperature is rising and they kiss.
("Fire for You")
- It was pretty epic night, if you asked me.
- Now, let's take a look at Kamala
and the arranged marriage she's trying to avoid.
Devi's family gets ready to meet Prashant.
Pershant arrives, and he's actually really hot.
- Sorry I called you hot, it's just
we were expecting an ogo .
- Things are going smooth, until Devi finds
Steve in Kamala's room.
- Steve?
- Devi starts to act all weird and stuff at dinner,
trying to hint to Kamala that
she should go upstairs to her room.
- Kamala finally does go up, finds poor Steve
and tries to break up with him.
- You're so sweet, and handsome,
and surprisingly good at mini golf
- But, Nalini walks in, and finds them.
And to Devi's surprise, she shows empathy for Kamala.
- Huh, you understand, you've literally
never said that to me before.
- Eventually, they manage to sneakily get Steve
out of the house, but Paxton shows up with Devi's dress,
the one she changed out of at Ben's party.
- Trouble.
- Devi's mom is outraged, even though they try
to explain to her what really went down,
Devi has, in her mom's eyes, brought shame upon her family.
And, her mom can't help but throw lots of shade at Paxton.
- Why don't you just let this idiot knock you up,
maybe Princeton will allow you to raise
a little baby in your dorm room.
- While this is all happening, Kamala explains
the Steve situation to Prashant, and they both agree
that they're not ready to get engaged to each other.
But, they really like each other and wanna take it slow.
- I kinda like you.
- I kinda like you too.
- I love love, back to the drama.
Devi finds out that her mother is planning on moving them
to India, because she's struggling to raise Devi on her own.
And, that's when Devi hits her limit.
- And, I'm just a burden to you, so you can go to India
alone, or maybe take Kamala with you.
She's the daughter you actually wanted.
- Devi, that's not fair.
- What's not fair is, that I lost
the only parent that actually cared about me.
I wish you were the one that died that night.
(door slamming shut)
- Wow.
- Devi moves out, and crashes at Ben's for a bit.
When Devi goes to school, Paxton has completely distanced
himself from her.
- It's a lot to process people, I know.
- Still fuming from that situation, Nalini goes
to see Dr. Ryan, and what should have been a meeting
to talk about Devi ends up being
a very introspective meeting for Nalini.
- These ceramics are quite comforting.
- Therapy y'all, Nalini softens a bit and realizes
that Mohan would not have wanted Devi
and her to be fighting, especially not on his birthday.
- To celebrate his birthday, Nalini decides
to spread Mohan's ashes, and of course doesn't want
to do it without her precious Devi.
- Nalini, goes to Ben's house to talk to Devi,
and ask her to join her in the ceremony.
But, still upset and annoyed, Devi decides not to go.
- Ben finally does something helpful, and convinces
her friends to talk to Devi, which actually works.
- Devi and Ben make their way to Malibu,
and they catch Devi's mom just in time.
- Hey, don't throw your husband's ashes in the water.
(dreamy musical tone)
- Is that John McEnroe?
- Thank you so much, Mr. McEnroe.
- They make up, and Devi, Nalini,
and Kamala spread Mohan's ashes.
- RIP Mohan.
- When Devi returns to the parking lot,
she sees Ben waiting for her, and she gets in the car
to head home, and they share a long kiss.
("Boys Like You")
♪ Not answering the questions in math class ♪
♪ 'Cause I answer them before boys like you ♪
- While they're smooching, Paxton leaves Devi
a voicemail saying he's in her neighborhood.
- Juicy.
- And, that's where we left off,
Woo, I think we covered it all Ramona.
- And, if we missed anything, well, that's another reason
why you should re-watch season one all over again.
- Thanks for sticking with us, and we'll see you all soon,
when Never Have I Ever returns for season two.
Bye. - Bye.
(upbeat musical tone)