B-Season 6The Mindy Project settles for conventional in its busy but lackluster series finaleKayla Kumari Upadhyaya11/14/17 3:11pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWatching this final season of The Mindy Project, I’ve thought a lot about all the other sitcoms that do romance well,…
C-Season 6The Mindy Project doubles down on its worst storyline in an unfunny, unromantic episodeKayla Kumari Upadhyaya11/07/17 12:00pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe Mindy Project often tries so desperately hard to be provocative and edgy with no clear intent, falling into the…
CSeason 6The Mindy Project has lost all sense of romanceKayla Kumari Upadhyaya10/31/17 12:47pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe relationships during this final season of The Mindy Project make so little sense that it almost seems like the show…
A-Season 6Reese Witherspoon and a stranger provide The Mindy Project with necessary hard truths about life, romanceKayla Kumari Upadhyaya10/24/17 12:00pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“Girl Gone Wild” takes Mindy Lahiri out of her familiar surroundings and plops her in Boise, Idaho at the Two Turtles…
C+Season 6Mindy’s moving on from romance, but The Mindy Project is still stuck in predictable romantic developmentsKayla Kumari Upadhyaya10/17/17 12:00pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkSo far, most episodes of The Mindy Project’s sixth and final season have landed on really strong endings. “The…
B+Season 6There’s more to Beverly than knives and taxidermy on The Mindy ProjectKayla Kumari Upadhyaya10/10/17 12:00pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkEven though the episode’s title doesn’t end up being the central storyline (or even the B-plot, for that matter), the…
B+Season 6Danny makes a subtle, touching return on The Mindy ProjectKayla Kumari Upadhyaya10/03/17 12:00pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIn “Leo’s Girlfriend,” The Mindy Project skewers the world of progressive private New York preschools, and right away,…
B-Season 6The Mindy Project ties up the loose ends of Mindy's divorce a little too neatlyKayla Kumari Upadhyaya9/26/17 12:00pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIn “May Divorce Be With You,” everyone is pretty much waiting for Mindy to fall completely apart. Her coworkers and…
BSeason 6Anna and Jeremy's decouplement outshines The Mindy Project's build to Mindy's divorceKayla Kumari Upadhyaya9/19/17 12:00pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe Mindy Project wastes no time pushing Mindy and Ben to divorce. Ben says the d-word outright by the end of “A…
B+Season 6The Mindy Project asks what comes after marriage in its final season premiereKayla Kumari Upadhyaya9/12/17 12:00pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe Mindy Project consistently nails breakups. Mindy Lahiri has dumped and been dumped many times over the course of…
BSeason 5The Mindy Project goes full Groundhog DayMarah Eakin2/14/17 8:28pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWell, that didn’t take long. The Mindy Project’s titular Mindy is back with boring nurse Ben.
BSeason 5The Mindy Project finally breaks up with nurse BenMarah Eakin11/15/16 8:01amEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe inevitable has happened. Dr. Mindy Lahiri and Nurse Ben no-last-name have broken up.
BSeason 5The Mindy Project moves on, goes crazy in “Concord”Marah Eakin11/08/16 8:00amEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkSometimes getting over someone isn’t as simple as just getting under someone else. Mindy loved Danny, but their love…
B+Season 5Jody finally snaps as The Mindy Project takes on a faux CumberbatchMarah Eakin11/01/16 7:59amEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThank God that Jody Kimball-Kinney isn’t just entirely okay with being romantically trampled by Mindy Lahiri. The good…
CSeason 5The Mindy Project stumbles over women’s issues in a confounding episodeMarah Eakin10/25/16 11:32amEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe Mindy Project’s Doctor Mindy Lahiri might be a lot of things, but she’s probably not a misogynist. A little…
BSeason 5The Mindy Project settles for safe with “Margaret Thatcher”Marah Eakin10/18/16 8:00amEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIf last week, The Mindy Project was flirting with giving Dr. Mindy Lahiri a new love interest, this week it’s downright…
B-Season 5The Mindy Project gives in too quickly, finds yet another hunky love interestMarah Eakin10/11/16 11:51amEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkJust when it looks like Dr. Mindy Lahiri is learning to stand on her own two feet, the show goes and introduces a…
B+Season 5The Mindy Project subverts the rom-com paradigm by trashing its love triangleMarah Eakin10/04/16 8:00amEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThere’s a problem with love triangles: They assume that all parties want to be involved, and, beyond that, that should…
B+Season 4The Mindy Project ends its season on a romantic cliffhangerGwen Ihnat7/05/16 11:00amEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAlthough I would surmise that the actual proportion of people who have been stuck in an elevator is probably fairly…
BSeason 4The Mindy Project moves toward its inevitable romantic conclusionGwen Ihnat6/28/16 7:30amEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAs The Mindy Project winds up season four, our lead character’s romantic foibles (this is meant to be a rom-sitcom,…
