9/25/12
The Mindy Project Is a Thoughtful Riff on Rom-Com Clichés
The long-awaited show from the former Office writer-star premieres tonight.
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Please tell me they’ll at least tell us whom they would have cast as the parents if we don’t get another season.
Laverne Cox is the guest star holding it all together this week.
Mindy is interested in religion and not afraid of it the way most current comedy is.
Mindy as the new Dr. Zizmor is perfection.
Sometimes I wonder if I’m dreaming this show.
Well, hello, John Cho, clearly doing someone a favor in an otherwise thankless guest role. Or maybe you will be back?
Mindy attempts to share her news with Danny at the worst possible time: dinner with the Castellanos on Staten Island.
The San Francisco–or–New York plot thickens — plus, some Ratatouille-cute rats.
"Bitcoin for your thoughts?"
“Who will be my Noel? … Who will be my Greg Grunberg?"
The Christmas episode has always been a big one for The Mindy Project.
We focus our attention upon Peter this week.
“Have things changed? Do people still do cocaine?"
Danny has a hang-up about staying at Mindy's place.
Family first.
This show is turning into a soap opera — and that's a good thing.
Shonda Rhimes and beer pong, naturally.
A taboo topic rears its head.
JAG references are the best references.
A welcome blast from our Cheers past.
For this season finale, Mindy brought homages to three Meg Ryan rom-com classics.
“You’re a little nut job. I like that. It’s interesting.”
“You know what encourages sex? Alcohol, hotness, black music.”
Mindy’s trying to date again.
Another double-header.
Mindy Project is back, with two of its best episodes ever.
“My philosophy is that an ID should be aspirational.”
Dad books and sleep-shouting on the way to the City of Angels.
"Over the holidays, I had like five hams and a goose. I am a wolf in a children’s story.”
Danny delivers one of the best dance sequences of the year.
We’re back in sweet, safe Mindy Project territory again this week.
"Everything you've just said was racist."
The guys play Cyrano for Mindy.
Timothy Olyphant guest stars as a hot skater guy.
Mindy is no longer in charge in the office and it's killing her.
With a celebrity cameo by Kevin Smith.
Even when the show doesn't make total narrative sense, it can't help but fire off great one-liners.
Misadventures at a music festival.
Skype and whipped-cream one-pieces don't always go together.
Hasty wedding plans postponed by urine.
To Haiti, or not to Haiti?
Tear all of the stripper poles down.
Danny’s mythical ex, Christina, has arrived, and she is Chloë Sevigny.
Minister Casey thought better of his holier-than-thou attitude toward Mindy, and now they are dating. Also, Josh is a coke addict.
Mindy dates a male prostitute, which is not at all like Pretty Woman.
Praise the Lord, we get two episodes of Mindy this week, and the first was definitely ascendant.
Ellie Kemper returned on last night's episode and the gang headed to Staten Island.
Mindy's birthday was celebrated in last night's out of sequence episode.
The Mindy Project’s first-season progress can be divided into Before B.J. Novak’s Magical Guest-Starring Stint and After.
You have to give this show credit for continuously making women’s health a plot point.
Like the pilot episode, almost every scene was a perfectly crafted twist on rom-com tropes.
This episode brought us back to the territory that served Mindy so well early on: poking fun at romantic comedies.
Why does this show get more typical and mainstream as it goes along?
We could have done without that letter.
Last month's standout Christmas episode was a tough act to follow.
Turns out Mindy's not the woman, she's the other woman.
We're starting to not care about all these other people that are not Mindy.
Nothing warms our heart like a great birth control lecture, and Mindy gave one for the ages this week.
Mindy's total lack of shame is something to behold.
Jeremy and Danny have been to hell, and they spell it DMV. Mindy learns to believe in the Great Pumpkin.
Red wine with ice.
One spends months, years even, on a pilot script, but the second episode shows us whether the first effort was a fluke.
Pilots are notoriously difficult to pull off, but Mindy lands it.
Mindy Kaling is "thrilled." So are we.
Insiders say it could go to the streaming service for two seasons.
This is not how rom-coms end.
Mindy and Danny will be terrible parents, no?
"I will have to get a real job eventually."
"She meets some colorful people, including a tech billionaire ex-flame, played by Lee Pace."
Four simple rules for avoiding a sitcom depression.
"You think they are going to let us get away with that in our time slot?"
The long-awaited show from the former Office writer-star premieres tonight.
Mindy Kaling promotes herself out of The Office and into The Mindy Project.