<em>Never Have I Ever</em> Cleverly Solves TV’s College Problem

In the previous season of Netflix’s sparkly teen comedy Never Have I Ever, Sherman Oaks High’s resident heartthrob, Paxton Hall-Yoshida (played by Darren Barnet), gave a poignant speech at his graduation about persistence. “Push yourself out there,” he told his classmates. “Defy other people’s expectations of you, and don’t ever let a label define you.”

However, at the start of the show’s fourth and final season (which began streaming this week), Paxton appears to have forgotten his own advice. Two episodes in—and after only two weeks spent