Another reason Devi and Paxton aren’t a good match is because during the fourth season he kind of becomes a teacher at her school, weirdly? No, the show didn’t do any kind of crazy time jump-Paxton briefly goes off to college, but he drops out after not too long, returning to his high school as an assistant swim coach and pseudo-faculty member. I appreciated this because a high schooler can’t actually date a 32-year-old man, even if that 32-year-old man is unconvincingly playing an 18- or 19-year-old. He was like the embodiment of the “ How do you do, fellow kids?” meme, except with a Hemsworth instead of Steve Buscemi.īy Season 4, that love triangle between Devi, Paxton, and Devi’s academic-rival-turned-friend Ben has mostly faded, and Paxton and Devi are basically platonic. (In some scenes, you could see wrinkles in his forehead, but so what?) He wasn’t just hot he was insanely, comically hot. The show hardly made so much as surface-level efforts to make him look like a high schooler: Instead, he was constantly taking off his shirt so the camera could linger on his gym-toned, definitely-not-teenage physique. But Paxton wasn’t supposed to be your average high schooler, or even your average teen-crush object. After all, most other cast members were a teensy bit closer in age to their characters: Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, who plays Devi, for example, was 18 when the show premiered. I choose to believe that the creators of Never Have I Ever did this on purpose. There’s a long-standing tradition of adults playing high schoolers in movies and on television, but it’s still pushing it a little for a 29-year-old to be playing a junior. He is played by Darren Barnet, who was, of course, 29 when Season 1 aired. At the time, Paxton is supposed to be a high school junior, so 16 or 17 years old. He’s on the swim team, and naturally, he’s a dumb jock he has a class with sophomore Devi because he failed it the year before. Paxton was introduced in Season 1 as main character Devi’s crush, to whom she vows to lose her virginity. But back to that 29-year-old: I don’t think we should let the occasion of the show ending pass without pausing to appreciate the arc of its token hot-guy character, Paxton Hall-Yoshida.
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