The second season of Netflix’s Master of None received pretty good reviews online (including here at The Comeback), but there’s been no announcement of a third season quite yet.
That’s apparently by design, as Aziz Ansari claims that even thinking about a third season stresses him out, per Vulture.
“The worst time to ask me or [co-creator] Alan [Yang] about whether we’re doing a third season is right after we finished the second season,” Ansari told us at the Vulture Festival. “Even just hearing the words ‘season three’ stresses me out. And being asked that in interviews stresses me out. I immediately think of a year of very hard work. Now we’ve just finished the season and now we have other things we want to do. I love the show, and it’s the best job I have ever had to make a show with my best friend, and my whole entire immediate family.”
Ansari also claimed that if he wouldn’t even want to do a third season of the show if it “wasn’t as inspired” as the first two seasons.
“If we didn’t do a third season, yeah, I’d feel bad that we wouldn’t get to keep going, but I also wouldn’t want to do a third season if it wasn’t as inspired as what we did,” he added. “And the reason we took a break between season one and season two was so we could make something that was really a step up. I wouldn’t want to have it be a step back and make it not as cool as exciting. I think we need some to refill the notebook.”
There was an 18-month gap between the release of the first two seasons of Master of None, and because of the show’s presence on Netflix, Ansari and Alan Yang don’t need to crank out a season every year to fill a spot on a network’s calendar. I think fans wouldn’t mind waiting another six or 12 months for another season of awesomeness rather than getting a subpar season a year from now.
[Vulture]