As for why she wanted to draw the story of OB/GYN Mindy Lahiri to a close, Mindy Kaling had a playful answer and a more serious one in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, which first reported the news. “I mean this half-jokingly, but at a certain point it was like, I think she’s dated every man in Manhattan,” Kaling said. “Sex and the City lasted for, what, six seasons with 10 episodes each? I don’t know that there’s been a show about a woman trying to find love in New York City that has lasted quite this long. And frankly, there’s no more actors in Hollywood left to date.”
Striking a more sincere note, she went on to describe how the series has “gotten into [its characters] romantic and interior lives,” adding: “We started this series when she was single, and now she’s married and has a kid and she has a stepdaughter, and it kind of just felt like [a few] more episodes was all we needed to wind this down.” In the most recent episode Mindy proposes to Ben, a nurse played by Bryan Greenberg. The final season will premiere in September of this year, so prepare to say goodbye for real this time.
