THE MINDY PROJECT is a new single-camera comedy from Emmy Award-nominated writer/producer and New York Times best-selling author Mindy Kaling ( The Office ) that follows a woman who, despite having a successful career, desperately needs to break bad habits in her personal life. After all, how many doctors make inappropriate toasts at their ex-boyfriend's wedding, nearly drown at the bottom of a stranger's pool and get arrested for disorderly conduct just moments before having to deliver a baby? Funny, impatient and politically incorrect, MINDY LAHIRI ( Kaling) can quot; every romantic comedy starring Meg Ryan that exists. She loves the good ones and the bad ones, because the girl always gets the guy. Mindy is determined to be more punctual, spend less money, lose weight and read more books - all in pursuit of becoming a well-rounded perfect woman.who can meet and date the perfect guy. Mindy is a skilled OB/ GYN and shares a practice with a few other doctors, none of whom make life any easier for her. JEREMY REED ( British writer/comedian Ed Weeks) is the walking definition of total bad news. He not only shares a practice with Mindy, but sometimes her bed as well - despite her best efforts to resist. He is funny, self-absorbed and super sexy. In contrast, DANNY CASTELLANO ( Chris Messina, Damages ) is a hothead and guys' guy who has a habit of stealing Mindy's patients. Danny criticizes her for everything, including her struggling love life and her lack of professionalism - even though it's obvious to everyone except Mindy that he secretly admires her work. His blue-collar childhood gives him a big chip on his shoulder, but he is a dedicated physician, which Mindy can't stand to admit because he's always getting on her case. Rounding out the office staff are the receptionists - BETSY PUTCH ( Zoe Jarman, Huge young, earnest and easily excitable, who thinks the world of.
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The Mindy Project has always prided itself on being a romantic comedy. When movie theaters were lacking in quality girls-night fodder, we could at least count on the show to pay homage to a Nora Ephron classic. And few are more vocal about their love for rom-coms than creator, EP, and star Mindy Kaling. “ What I’d really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie,” Kaling wrote in a New Yorker essay. “ I like watching people fall in love onscreen so much that I can suspend my disbelief in the contrived situations that occur only in the heightened world of romantic comedies [ ] I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.” When Hulu picked up the sitcom following its Fox cancellation, Kaling touted that season 4 would be different. Sure enough, we got longer episodes and some dirtier jokes, but we never predicted that there would be an alteration to the fundamental makeup of the show. The Mindy Project of the last several weeks is drastically different — there’s no longer a need for suspension of disbelief, because the show feels all too real. The season started strong with a While You Were Sleeping/ Sliding Doors-inspired episode that epitomized what The Mindy Project was all about. But one episode later, Mindy gave birth, and the show began to shift from the superficial, lighthearted problems that used to plague our heroine to an ongoing debate between Mindy and Danny about how they should raise their son. Mindy, after trying out the stay-at-home-mom routine, wanted to continue working, while Danny believed the only way Leo could have a healthy childhood was if Mindy took care of him full-time. Before they could properly work through their issues, their relationship troubles were compounded when Danny left for California to take care of his ailing.
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