Still, with things mended with Fab and Eleanor, they urge her to go. It’s meaningful and genuine, but it’s also yet another attempt by Devi to avoid her own problems. Master deflector Devi uses it as an opportunity to address Eleanor’s recent personality change and get her to reconsider her acting dreams. Even though Devi wasn’t there for them, they end up showing up for her, because they’re good friends and they know how much Devi will regret it if she doesn’t go to Malibu. There’s more to her hesitation, she isn’t ready to say goodbye to Mohan yet.īen has to tap in some backup, reaching out to Eleanor and Fab. She sees her mom’s attempt at getting her to spread the ashes as emotional manipulation. She’s quick to anger and slow to apologize. She tells her that she and Kamala will leave for Malibu at five if Devi wants to join.ĭevi does not want to join. Nalini says she wants to spread Mohan’s ashes on his birthday, but it prompts a bad flashback for Devi to the day he died. She’s still initially stern with Devi, and Devi shuts down a bit because of that. Nalini makes an initial attempt to reach out to Devi, showing up at Ben’s house and saying she doesn’t want to fight anymore. Devi, meanwhile, is just casually scrolling through Instagram when her phone gives her a memory notification for her dad’s birthday with photos and videos from the year before. Nalini remembers buying the house with Mohan and how thrilled he was.
Memories of Mohan crop up all the time for Devi and Nalini, and they’re not necessarily wholly sad or wholly happy they’re both at once. Nalini having to awkwardly explain that Mohan passed away to her realtor when she calls her up to tell her she’s thinking about putting the house on the market also evokes a specific side of losing a loved one: Nalini and Devi constantly have to relive their trauma by having to explain the loss to others. Ryan’s table and fiddling with it as she reveals that Mohan’s birthday is the next day. Nalini reaching for a ceramic vase on Dr. Maybe she wouldn’t be so in denial and quick to deflect if she had permission to break down, and Nalini letting down her strong facade would do just that. Devi needs to see her mother’s weakness in order to embrace her own. Ryan encourages her to let Devi see her break a little. She was the tough parent, but now that Mohan is gone, that means all Devi gets is the tough parent, which isn’t fair to anyone involved and just creates more tension. But she softens, lets down her guard a bit, and admits that she knows she’s tough on Devi but that it comes from a place of fear. Ryan gently suggests that moving a kid across the globe isn’t exactly good for grieving, and Nalini shares that Devi said she wished she was dead. Ryan, her initial resistance to therapy eventually relenting. Nalini has an emotional breakthrough when she visits Dr. His sister fully calls him out for being a douche when he suggests that he can’t be with Devi because she isn’t cool enough but buried beneath that, there’s also his insecurity about what her mother said about his intelligence the last episode. She goes so far as to call up Rebecca and try to get a job at Old Navy, which prompts a sweet scene between Rebecca and Paxton. Ben realizes how serious the whole situation is when Devi’s little run-away-from-home stint starts to look more permanent. She even asks Ben’s dad for help with emancipating herself, which is of course a ridiculous request since she doesn’t have a job or even know how credit cards work. She won’t return home unless Nalini promises not to move them to India. Kamala brings her some stuff at school and tries to get her to come home, but Devi remains firm. He has a big house and pool, and she has a room to herself. On the surface, Devi’s life at Ben’s looks pretty ideal.
Everything starts off in disarray and things are gradually pieced things together, repairing some relationships and making way for new ones. Fab and Eleanor are still on a “friendship break” from Devi, still hurt by the ways she didn’t show up for them when they needed her most.ĭespite their kiss, Paxton is pulling away from Devi. Plot ĭevi moves out of her house and finds an unexpected ally in Ben, leaving Nalini and Kamala alone. Mohan’s birthday brings an opportunity for closure - and for new beginnings. After unwelcome news sparks a fight with her mother, Devi seeks an escape.
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