‘Never Have I Ever’s Maitreyi Ramakrishnan Jokes “Devi’s Dead” While Discussing Possible Return, If “All The Stars Lined Up”
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan has said a return for Netflix’s Never Have I Ever is possible only if the right script, timing and creative conditions align, though she does not expect that to happen soon. Joking that “Devi’s dead”, she stressed that she would not want to revive the series merely for financial reasons or risk undermining its completed story.
Ramakrishnan played Devi Vishwakumar, a first-generation Indian-American teenager balancing high-school life, family pressures and grief after her father’s death. The coming-of-age comedy-drama, created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher, ran for four seasons between 2020 and 2023; Kaling has described it as the first part of a loosely autobiographical television trilogy.
- Ramakrishnan sees no imminent Never Have I Ever revival.
- She would return only with the right creative circumstances.
- The Netflix series ran for four seasons.
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Never Have I Ever is a Netflix comedy-drama about Devi Vishwakumar, an Indian-American teenager growing up in California. It follows her friendships, family life, relationships and efforts to cope with the death of her father while navigating school.
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan played Devi throughout the show’s four seasons, which were released from 2020 to 2023. The series was created by actor and writer Mindy Kaling with writer Lang Fisher, and became known for putting a South Asian teenage girl at the centre of a mainstream US coming-of-age story.
The programme ended with Devi’s story reaching a planned conclusion, rather than being cancelled mid-plot. Talk of any future return therefore concerns whether there would be a new story that fits the original ending and brings back its cast and creators.