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my boy, Ritchie, has caught a case of the feelings...

I’m not one to hold grudges but there are certain things I can’t get over. Or should I say, that I refuse to get over. The Bellas deserved an “L” (badly) against Das Sound Machine in Pitch Perfect 2, how incredible Cars 3 is (Yes, I’m still on that), and Dev’s (Aziz Ansari) “search” for Sara in Season 2 of Master of None.

Lemme repaint the picture, Season 2 of Master of None dropped back in May 2017. In Episode 1 (“The Thief”), Dev is in Modena, Italy doing real chef shit. Ya boy cooking. He cooking. Dev decides to treat himself to a birthday lunch at this Bruce Wayne, entry-by-reservation-only type restaurant, Hosteria Giusti. He meets Sara (Clare-Hope Ashitey) who mistakingly booked her reservation for the following month. Dev invites her to eat with him ’cause it’s the nice thing to do, and what ensues is 100% uncut cute shit.

They engage in slightly awkward conversations getting to know one another, talking about the social norms of conversation. They see they have a similar type of humor and continue to hang out, eating ice cream and riding bikes together. It’s a buffet of cute shit and I came back for fourths. Once it’s time to depart, Sara tells Dev she and some friends rented a house in Puglia for the weekend. She gives him her number and tells him to come through. Dev later gets his phone stolen and gives a valiant effort trying to catch the thief, but comes up short. Y’all know how the rest plays out.

“Have you learned nothing from BBC’s Sherlock?”

I’m watching this like, ‘Damn, I hate it had to be you, Dev’. Then he just moves on with his life in Episode 2, and I’m like “Hold up? We not going keep it all the way real with the sleuth shit?” Y’all were riding bikes together, man. If you don’t get your ass on Facebook and start going through Saras (without an “h” at the end) based in New York. Oh, you ain’t even get a last name? Uh, that’s Consensual Stalking 101. You know damn well we ’bout to Google each other to make sure the other person isn’t a mass murderer, isn’t arguing at celebs on Twitter, and has heard at least four tracks on Lemonade.

I had the editorial mapped out right then and there. A whole ass crazy wall with mad papers and strings connecting this all to Kevin Bacon and everything. Then, I said, ‘Lemme chill’. Maybe it’s just me—sometimes you gotta let go, right? I’m not going say things happen for a reason because I’ll tell you like Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog told me, “Everything happens”. Fam, I could not let that shit go. I’d be washing my clothes thinking, ‘but Dev coulda’, playing Mario Kart with my nephew, accidentally driving off Rainbow Bridge lost in thought while muttering, ‘If only Dev went and…’. I found myself randomly revisiting the issue, Googling ‘Sara and Dev’ today (2017 New Year’s Eve). I don’t even know why but I saw this MTV article about Master of None‘s unexpected Season 2 ending. In it, the the original ending was mentioned. I’ma ‘A Tribe Called Quest’ the entire excerpt so you understand my feels after reading it.

Dev and Francesca’s flirty friendship-turned-something-more wasn’t always the finale’s focus, however. Mastronardi also revealed the season’s original ending, which put Dev on a plane to find Sara (Clare-Hope Ashitey), the girl whose number he lost in Italy. She’s the first girl he shares a real connection with after his breakup with Rachel (Noël Wells) in Season 1. “Francesca had chosen Pino, and Dev finally found the number of the girl from the first episode of the season. But then he said maybe it’s too much, maybe the audience doesn’t even remember this character,” Mastronardi explained.