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People are loving Common’s guest appearance in ‘Never Have I Ever’ season 2

People are swooning over Common’s recurring role in the second season of ‘Never Have I Ever.’

The second season of Netflix’s hit series Never Have I Ever is now streaming on the platform, where we get to see the continuation of Devi Vishwakumar’s entertaining journey through her teenage years.

While there’s plenty to digest from season 2, one of the things that people can’t stop talking about is the guest appearance of rapper-actor Common, who plays Dr. Chris Jackson, a rival and love interest for Devi’s mom, Nalini.

While Common’s guest stint in Never Have I Ever might come as a surprise to some, it makes sense given Common’s love for the series, which was a comfort for him during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Last year when everything stood still, I started watching a few shows. A friend of mine told me to watch Never Have I Ever,” Common told EW.com. “It was touching my heart. I watched at least the first five episodes [immediately] and then I couldn’t wait to watch the next ones. I was really impacted by how good I felt watching it. It had a lot of things that I love in movies and great TV shows.”

So it made sense for Common to make a guest appearance in the second season, where the door was left open for an eventual return, should the series be green-lit for a third season.

Twitter was full of reactions to Common’s appearance, which included surprise and plenty of swooning.

John McEnroe narrating ‘Never Have I Ever’ is the best surprise in TV these days

McEnroe is so good on the series.

Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher’s new Netflix series, Never Have I Ever, is a big hit — it’s the story of Devi Vishwakumar (played by Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) and her social struggles in high school, her relationship with her family and so much more.

And yes, it’s narrated by John McEnroe.

That’s blowing a lot of people’s minds when, in the first minutes of the pilot, his voice comes in and highlights from his incredible tennis career play on screen.

“Why is sports icon John McEnroe narrating this tale?” he asks in that moment. And, sure enough, he makes an actual cameo later in the season.

That’s also something he and Kaling have been answering ever since the first season premiered (WARNING: Some NSFW language is in this video with some of his best moments):

Here’s what Kaling told USA TODAY in April:

“One thing that’s common for a lot of Indian parents is a love of tennis. It’s like an English Anglophile kind of thing,” Kaling tells USA TODAY. “When we decided that the character of Devi would have a temper, the McEnroe thing just kept coming back: you know, someone who’s high-achieving but is undermined by their own temper. He has really high standards for himself and everyone around him. We kept talking about him and were like, ‘Wait, should he be doing the narration?’ Devi’s dad loved tennis, and it timed out that he would have grown up watching McEnroe.”

How did this all happen? From McEnroe in an ESPN interview:

My wife (singer and songwriter Patty Smyth) and I were at the Vanity Fair Oscars party last year, and we were on our way in to do [portraits] with Mark Seliger, he’s a great photographer. Mindy was walking out. She was like, “Oh, my God! I can’t believe it’s you! I have this idea about you doing a show that I’m writing!” I’m like, “Oh, OK.” Well, you know how that goes. Most of the time that doesn’t end up happening. So, I took that with a grain of salt, but I told some of my kids the next day that I had met her and what she said. They were like, “You have to do it!” And then it actually happened.

The result? He’s a star:

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