![]() ![]() Caught up in a wave of emotions, Aneesa kisses Fabiola.Īs she tries to sort out her feelings about her relationship, Aneesa asks Fabiola to forget about the kiss. As narrator John McEnroe says, “Aneesa just wanted to feel seen” and in walks Fabiola gushing over Aneesa’s incredible play, even though following sports isn’t her forte. At one of the lowest points in her relationship with Ben - when he misses her winning goal in the district championship game because he’s too busy flirting with Devi over text - Fabiola runs into a crying Aneesa in the bathroom. Part of what convinces Aneesa to end things is the contrast between how poorly Ben treats her and how sincerely Fabiola cares about her. The nail in the coffin for their relationship, though, is the fact that Ben clearly isn’t over Devi and is constantly condescending to Aneesa, who eventually decides that she deserves better. Aneesa can’t understand Ben’s relentless obsession with grades and “going to a good college,” and Ben devalues Aneesa’s passion for soccer. Season three starts by laying bare how badly matched this couple is. Introduced as a transfer student in season two, Aneesa is a South Asian Muslim who eventually started dating Ben after Devi left him for Paxton. Eve’s coterie doesn’t reappear in season three, and, instead, the show pursues a relationship that fans were clamoring for after season two.īut before we get there, we need to talk about the most recent addition to Devi’s friend group: Aneesa. This does leave Fabiola available to explore the wide world around her, though. ![]() An unconvincing end for an unconvincing relationship. Surprisingly and fairly unrealistically, Fabiola never expresses any sadness about the end of her first queer romance which - if I’m following the time span of the series correctly- had lasted nearly a year. At the very end of season two, in what’s supposed to be a moving scene where Eve accepts Fabiola for all of who she is, including her nerdiness, Eve tells Fabiola she loves her because Fabiola is “the most beautiful person ever met.” Clearly the writers couldn’t come up with a single justification for their relationship either, and they have finally decided to cut their losses.Īfter a brief period of trying to make a long-distance relationship work, Fabiola decides to end things with Eve because the strain of the sixteen-hour time difference starts affecting Fabiola’s grades. They had no common interests and the entirety of season two was spent showing how Fabiola was repeatedly alienated by Eve’s friends for being a geek and out of touch with (white) queer culture. This pairing has never really made sense from the beginning of the series, beyond the simplistic logic of “obviously the two lesbians have to be into each other.”Īcross the first two seasons, NHIE failed to convince me why Fabiola and Eve were together. ![]() But this is a very welcome change for Fabiola as a character. Granted, the specifics of how this was handled feels more than a little racist in the same way a lot of season one’s attempts at humor badly missed the mark. Best of all, though, their mutual friend Fabiola gets to explore the breadth of her own romantic interests for the first time in the series.įabiola’s story opens with an abrupt announcement from her girlfriend Eve: her family is moving to Korea. Her best friend Eleanor weighs dating Paxton’s stoner friend Trent, a convenient pairing introduced at the end of season two. Devi finds herself with no less than three love interests: her nerdy frenemy Ben, the hot jock of her dreams Paxton and a new paramour aptly described as the combination of Ben and Paxton if they were also Indian. Never Have I Ever returns in season three with even more relationship drama for the Sherman Oaks High School teens. This review has spoilers for Never Have I Ever Season Three. ![]() The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now. ![]()
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