The second season of Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang’s acclaimed comedy drama series Master of None hit Netflix earlier this month, but if you’re eagerly anticipated season three, you may have a wait on your hands as star and co-creator Ansari has revealed to Vulture that there are no immediate plans.
“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,” said Ansari. “Even just hearing the words ‘season three’ 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. 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.”
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“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 time to refill the notebook. If I had my druthers — whatever druthers are — any time the notebook was filled up and me and Alan felt like we had a few, we would call up Netflix, and say, ‘Okay, let’s do it,’ and make a season three a few years from now. Then maybe we would make another one when we were, like, 60 years old. We talk about that, about creating a new season of Master of None when we’re 70 and all the things we think about when we are 70. I need to live my life a little bit, maybe get in a serious relationship, have a kid, something, and then maybe figure it out.”
The first two seasons of Master of None are available to stream now on Netflix.
Originally published May 28, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
