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Media & Entertainment — May 15, 2017   

Aziz Ansari’s “Master Of None” Returns With A Muslim Themed Episode

Original article by Paul Chi published in the Vanity Fair on 05/12/2017

Photo Credit: Vanity Fair
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Aziz Ansari’s second season of the critically acclaimed “Master of None” has just premiered on Netflix. Ansari stars, directs and co-writes with his close friend, Alan Yang. Ansari says this season is even more personal for him. “ We can only write about what is true to us, and because I am of Indian ethnicity, it comes off as real. But there’s no true representation in TV and movies, and that’s still a big part of the problem… I’m a brown guy, and I wanted to reflect the real world and my personal experiences in the show.”

Ansari co-wrote an episode called “Religion,” which is about his accounts on hiding his pork-eating diet from his Muslim parents. “Aziz grew up in a Muslim family, and the episode addresses what it’s like to be Muslim,” explains co-writer Alan Yang. “It shows a different perspective that we haven’t seen on TV before. Our show isn’t designed to be preachy, but if someone happens to watch and it makes them think differently about other cultures and religions, then great.”

Yang says he would like to invite Trump to watch the “Religion” episode so that he could understand that “Muslims are people too” and that “you can’t paint them all with the same brush, the same way you can’t paint all billion Christians with the same brush.”

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