C/D MINDY KALING (THE DEFINITIVE POLL)

chloe is on the mindy project

this staten island stevie episode may have been the worst half hour of television i have ever watched

i feel like some sitcoms start with a pretty small core cast and then slowly branch outward to a larger ensemble or lots of familiar recurring characters, and then there are shows like The Mindy Project that start with way too many people, some of which will be quietly phased out to little protest during 'retooling' between seasons. w/ this show it's more frustrating than usual because the whole thing is supposed to be a star vehicle for one person but she surrounded herself with a security blanket ensemble.

Also, it was weird to me that the last two episodes have ended with dudes fighting over Mindy. It seems a bit repetitive.

Who fought over Mindy in "Triathlon"?

Not saying you're wrong; I just don't remember it. If anything, I thought they were fighting over Morgan.

The charm is fading a little for me but I'm still watching. I found it a little weird that they were strongly hinting at Mindy-Danny finally happening, esp in "Santa Fe" and then seem to have dropped that altogether. Maybe it's intentional but it's not working to develop suspense or anything for me. (New Girl is handling the relationship stories much better imo.) Casey's pretty boring to me and everyone knows it won't work out anyway.

Scrubs was more fast-paced and absurd, I thought?

yeah i have no idea how this show is like Scrubs other than it's a comedy about doctors (but less much so about that than Scrubs was).

she's really cute w/ short hair. also i kinda love this show.

i was horrified at the new haircut at first but i think it's growing on me

She looks so cute. Really loving the show.

"Ken Burns does it again"

i was horrified at the new haircut at first but i think it's growing on me

― Nhex, Tuesday, September 17, 2013 10:28 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well it's growing on her too!

i died at "i need her to watch the Colbert Report with me and explain it -- is he a real person!?"

this looks like a civil war battlefield only somehow theres more beards

hahahha "i will not listen to Phish -- songs should be 3 minutes long, and Nicki Minaj raps in the middle"

i loved when it was revealed that danny's favorite band is the national. this is a better than average sitcom for sure.

wow Mindy lurking on ilx: "Ice-T and Coco... I'm only realizing now that both of their names are drinks"

Noooooooooo!!!

Loving it more and more with every episode. I hated it the first time I saw it last year but totally loving it now.

"who are you the lorax? what are you talking about?" had me 'in stitches' last episode

The Ice-T/Coco joke killed me

this is a gibroni free zone

ok watch your mouth my father was a gibroni

Show is working much better now

jabroni, c'mon man xp

ffuck, im ashamed

mods edit my post and perma ban me plz

pally = A+ addition to the roster

^^

otm, i'm really hoping he sticks around long term.

He is a member of the main cast.

originally he was just recurring but they promoted him to main cast a couple weeks into the season

winky face!

This was one of the best episodes so far

do you carry fatsteps cankle wranglers - theyre for the problematic foot? ok you dont have to look at me like that

dr. dan's funky ale

http://www.buzzfeed.com/aasiddiqi/a-mindy-project-roundtable

lol that rayrons name is reagan ronald

Really enjoyed the latest episodes. So weird the shows been renewed but they're airing two eps back to back summer burnoff style.

it would be wrong to say i havent laughed at all while watching her, but i just dont the show/her all that funny. like, i get the tone is 'funny', but i just dont hear all that much funny material, or great gags. its like, its all set up to be hilarious, they just forgot the actual hilarity. she seems to think that talking really manically and acting cute = humour. but then i seem to have this problem with a lot of modern 'hip'(-ish) american comedy (aziz, donald glover, new girl/zooey, etc). its kinda bland? (maybe this series gets a lot better, im sure im behind watching it on british TV).

i liked her book though. shes endearing. just not all that comedic. also, i dunno if its been commented on in this thread, but its kinda interesting how there seem to be no other indian people in her show/in her love life (maybe she just a type and hey, that's fine i suppose). not that there HAVE to be of course, its just a bit interesting.

*just has a type

i have a problem with this womans voice

the buzzfeed link from a few posts up is literally thousands of words about how everyone else on the show is white. some interesting food for thought in the discussion but also kinda overwhelming. i just watch the show and think it's funny.

Well yeah - the stakes are gonna be different if you're approaching this show as a South Asian American! I'm like you in that I can also watch the show and just think that it's funny, that's a, uh, difference in perspective afforded to us by our racial identity in America

it's a show about an aspirational indian doctor with a conservative streak who predominantly dates white people. I can't begrudge any POC frustrated that THIS still passes for a major diversity breakthrough in TV, but when people are like "Mindy should date non-white people" I can't go there any more than I could with someone I knew in real life.

yeah totally

Well I wouldn't downplay its significance too much - it's still a sitcom aired on a major network with a very-underrepresented POC as the lead and focus of the show

But at the same time I wouldn't begrudge the criticism levied at the show in the piece above, and they were very careful to also point out that they love the show in general

I guess, you can be very critical of a show and still fête it, they're not incompatible standpoints

i died @ "Jenny! What were you thinking? A sex party? That's not for regular people. That's for couples in John Updike novels!"

I can understand the criticism on the lack of other Indians/POCs in the show (Mindy's brother did appear a few times in season 1, but I don't think we've seen him during this season?) & Mindy dating only white guys, but on the other hand the show has been pretty good at pointing out that what Mindy's not really a role model, and the stuff she does is not always ethical or politically correct. I think this kind of self-awareness/self-deprecation, acknowledging that the quirks of the "quirky" protagonist aren't necessarily a good thing, is what makes The Mindy Project better and more three-dimensional, say, New Girl. I do feel the show plays it safe in its usage of romcom tropes (even if this acknowledged on a meta level, when the show juxtaposes the plots to the chick lit and romcom movies Mindy loves), most evident in the cavalcade of boyfriends we've seen so far, and there should be room for a show that focuses more on the "Indianness" of the protagonist, but at this point taking TMP into that direction would also feel kinda forced. It is what it is, hopefully other shows can expand on that.

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.