Report: Master of None Season 3 will focus on Lena Waithe's character

Variety

Season 3 will reportedly be titled Master of None Presents: Moments in Love and, according to Variety, Aziz Ansari's Dev won't be the focus of the third season, arriving in Netflix in May after a four-year hiatus. "The season is expected to be a departure for the show, and it’s believed to focus on Lena Waithe’s character, Denise," reports Variety's Kate Aurthur, pointing to an earlier report on the cast of The End of the F***ing World's Naomi Ackie. As Aurthur notes, Waithe and Ansari won an Emmy for writing the Season 2 episode "Thanksgiving" that focused on Denise. While it's unclear why Season 3 would revolve around Denise, "moving away from the first two seasons’ focus on Dev as a single man looking for love helps the series and Netflix move away from the aforementioned incident in Ansari’s personal life," says TVLine's Mekeisha Madden Toby. "In January 2018, a 23-year-old woman posted an article online alleging that a date with Ansari had ended with a nonconsensual sexual encounter with the actor." Aurthur points out that Ansari's comeback Netflix special in 2019, Right Now, was met with "mixed to muted" reactions.