C/D MINDY KALING (THE DEFINITIVE POLL)

How long did Danny think he could keep up the ruse of being Dr Schulman? If the rabbi ever followed through on his promise to refer patients to him, wouldn't they find out he wasn't Dr Schulman almost immediately? It's not like he could write prescriptions under this name. These are the things we should be talking about.

"No, I'm Beverly something." <- key line

http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2014/04/23/3429922/on-mindy-lahiri-amy-schumer-and-cool-girls/

Writer of that piece thinks Mindy is cool because she isn't some mythological stereotypical "cool girl"

Do you like that article?

is it just me or was this last episode jam-packed w/ lolz?

Totally mistook Mark Duplass for Matt Besser

I think the second season ended pretty nicely, but it felt like the whole series could've ended there, so I'm not sure what they can do for the third season? If they break up Mindy and Danny again, it'll feel forced, but keeping together takes away some of the story possibilities. This is always the problem with "will they or won't they?" couples in TV series: if they got together too quickly, a lot of the energy that made them interesting can be lost, but OTOH dragging the romantic tension for several season without resolving it can get pretty tiring too (see The Nanny or Fraser, for example). I think Fraser eventually resolved quite nicely: they didn't wait for the final season for Niles and Daphne to get together, and subsequently found out they could still write funny plots about the two as a couple.
I hope this route is the one TMP will also take.

Also, if Mindy's constant romantic problems aren't so much in the focus from now, that'll give them more space to develop the supporting cast. The naive receptionist girl and the British doctor totally suffered from having so little screen time during the second season, they showed some potential in season 1, but after that they haven't really had any storylines of their own. IMO the series has a nice, rounded cast of major and supporting characters, so they should really put more effort into strengthening that instead of just doing endless "Mindy's latest fling" plots, those'll get boring after a while.

more Adam Pally!

this quote from kaling suggest there won't be a lot of will-they-wont-they

“Suspense is always good, but there’s a lot of great virtues from the TV comedies we love — I Love Lucy, Modern Family — which show couples together. Mindy and Danny at Costco or (Catholic) Mass is funny — there’s so many funny places you can put them.”

considering the ratings uptick (or at least ratings uptick-over-new-girls-downtick) they got when the danny/mindy relationship heated up (and nick/jess cooled down), i think they know better than to send mindy back to the new-beau wheel

I have never been into male stripping, never found it at all sexy but that scene with Chris Messina was pretty hot IMO.

can someone find a gif of danny saying 'exsqueeze me' w/ the wine bottle plz

https://33.media.tumblr.com/8dad8dfaf1641aecf4d2bf9175ccd83f/tumblr_ndgu77dAfe1tpujrro1_250.gif

ahaha yes

This show is getting so great. Adam Pally was a great addition and I'm glad that, so far at least, the Mindy/Danny relationship is actually making it more interesting.

yeah i was totally resigned to the show never melding the romantic and ensemble aspects, but making danny & mindy a couple has kinda done the trick - we no longer have to spend half the episode with a dude outside the ensemble. and while pally just seemed like one more clown they've made him distinct over time.

do kinda regret he can't be the male lead on marry me, though

someone complained on twitter that Pally was going to waste on The Mindy Project and i was like no way, he's already had more screentime than at least 5 other characters that are or were full cast members

i could 4-5 legit laughs from this show every episode almost exclusively from mindy. the rest of the cast is good too but she is next-level imo.

yeah the comedic voice of her/her character has been really strong and fully formed from the jump, even as they've played mix-and-match with the ensemble

Pally is great, but it feels he's kinda made the British doctor redundant, that guy had hardly anything to do last season. Also, I don't like the way they've gradually reduced the female supporting cast; looks like Betsy has inepxlicably disappearead between seasons 2 and 3, just like Gwen and the two other female friends of Mindy inexplicably disappeared after sesons 1. It feels kinda weird, Mindy is depicted as a feminine women, but now she appears to have no other friends than the masculine guys from her work.

I do hope they'll bring back Rhea Perlman for more episodes... She was a perfect choice for Danny's mom, and not just because it explains his height.

i understand mourning the women that got lost in the shuffle of mindy's supporting cast (i liked betsy a lot), but i think you're making a big ol unadvisable assumption in saying a (*gingerly picks up the landmine of a phrase you gave us, thanks so much*) "feminine woman" would naturally have close female friends, and be uncomfortable in a primarily male friend circle

i mean mindy is portrayed as extremely selfish and competitive as hell, practically a cross between liz lemon and angelina jolie

I didn't say she'd be uncomfortable with guys, just that it feels weird a woman like her wouldn't have *any* female friends. Though I guess you could fanwank it away by saying that her female friends from season 1 are still there, the series just doesn't anymore show what she does with them. That doesn't explain what happened to Betsy though...

i just think you should realize that with the "feminine" and "like her" addendums to "woman" you're suggesting a) that there is a type of woman you could imagining having no female friends and b) that you'd consider that person more "masculine" than mindy. again, unadvised.

without engaging in "fanwank," she is pretty centered on work and her relationship right now, so subplots about girlfriends outside the already chock-full-of-clowns office would be a little gratuitous.

let's not forget most of her subplots about her friend in season 1 involved them being mad at her and her resenting their evolving lives

great show v good enjoying much

Mindy Kaling is obviously great, but I've started to appreciate Chris Messina's comic chops more and more as the show goes on. His "victory dance" in "Caramel Princess Time", when he managed to make it in time to work despite Mindy's sabotage, was just hysterical. Also, while the whole "guy hiding his weaknesses and insecurities behind a rough, masculine façade" may be bit of a cliche, I think with Danny they've handled it really well, both acting- and writing-wise.

And I was glad to see Rhea Perlman appear again, which I take it means she'll become a recurring character? But speaking of guest stars, am I the only one who thought the new romantic writer character looked kinda like ILX's very own Mandee? Something about her eyes, her face, her hair, was eerily similar.

so has Tamara actually turned into a pretty good character now?

I keep waiting for her teeth to fall out for some reason.

Btw there must be a scene in which the carousel in Golden Gate Park is going to be used, I ran by there one morning around 7:30 and they were filming in the kid's park.

I'm glad if they're fleshing out Tamara, feels like she has potential to become a cool character if don't they use her only as part of Morgan/Tamara hijinks. (I hope that's the reason they broke up the two, not just so they could build up to some corny triangle drama.)

I like how that series actually has a lot female characters look a bit different from the sort women you usually see in mainstream TV, and they're still depicted as attractive, not just as vehicles for comedy of something. Like Jessica, the new doctor character, or the erotic fiction writer Peter dated a few episodes ago.

Also, looks like they're gonna address Mindy's position as a 2nd gen Indian American for the first time? I think it's kinda cool that they have haven't made her heritage a thing at all, but OTOH it seems like her conflict with the immigrant Indian doctor might provide some good story opportunities, and a way for the show to tackle some of the stuff the critics have said it to refuses to tackle.

i'm going to miss adam pally in this :(

He's leaving? (I haven't seen the latest episode.) Yeah, that's sad.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/theslice/why-mindy-kaling-refuses-to-talk-about-race-and-why-i-care-so-much

these "race issues" articles are madlibs and mindy is the best/funniest/so awesome i won't hear any criticism of her

Pretty early in the day for you to be high Mordy

wah why u take link bait more srsly

Seems disingenuous for that article to associate mindy, an entertainer, with bobby fucking jindal

aw this show is so sweet

http://twitchy.com/2015/04/03/mindy-kalings-brother-i-got-into-medical-school-by-pretending-to-be-black/

Wow what a gigantic cock

oh my god

there are so many fucked up layers to what this person did--also i wish i didn't know that entities such as capitalism magazine existed, which i now do because of a link in that article.

that n+1 article about indian american cronies of white supremacist culture a while back annoyed me but this dude is totally who that article was about.

white people, you can have him in the racial draft

and d'souza