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Note: This article contains spoilers about the third season ofMaster of None.
The fourth episode ofMaster of Nones third seasonspends 53 minutes alongside one woman going through fertility treatments.
That meansAlicia has to navigatethe monotonous, scary, and sometimes heartbreaking turns on the fertility road by herself.
But the thing is, shes not alone.
She is emotionally buoyed by her friend and sperm donor, Darius (Anthony Welsh).
Shes also the one tasked with calling Alicia to deliver news that can be devastating or hopeful.
If many of Blairs scenes come across as real and in the moment, thats because they were.
Its going to work, Cordelia reassures Alicia about her attempt to produce viable eggs.
Were in this together.
A lot of her work in the episode was.
In fact, a lot of it was not originally planned to be there at all.
Ansari appreciated Blairs energy in that little moment, so he wrote more scenes for her.
I gave it up, she says, It was a little too emotional.
The actor wasnt completely working off the top of her head in the episode.
The proper medical terminology was fed to her byMaster of Nones IVF consultant.
Ansari also suggested certain reactions for Blair, and there was a script.
We tried it with the script and it didnt work, Blair says.
And [Aziz] just says, Okay, forget the script, Cordelia.
He just felt I had more emotion without the script.
So he could see something in me.
Blair could see something of herself in the episode as well.
At one point in her life, she confides, she, like Alicia, had a miscarriage.
She was told she might not be able to conceive and should consider IVF.
Not every nurse is as lovely as Cordelia, obviously.
