The Mindy Project

I watched this show because I liked The Office US and I thought this would be kind of like a spinoff type thing. It's not like that at all.

I mean that in a good way of course. I think that the show had similarities to The Office US but to be honest I thought it was like an entirely different show.

The acting is brilliant, the story is quite sad but fun and it manages to be pretty good throughout the whole thing. I'm not saying it became really bad in the last few seasons because I feel like that would be a bit demeaning but it doesn't fall off at all.

I recommend this show for fans of The Office US, fans of Brooklyn 99, fans of Community and just fans of shows that shows that revolve around a woman.

A quick review after the beginning of the 3rd season.

"The Mindy Project" is a very enjoyable, painless, quirky comedy.

It's about a ...colleague of mine...Dr. Mindy Lahiri and her relationships in modern New York City.

The script is usually very good. The jokes and some one-liners make you laugh effortlessly. Some physical humor is also present. Overall a comedy which is enjoyable and fresh.

A major plus the absence of a "fake laugh track". I don't know about you but I don't like comedies that are trying to tell me WHEN to laugh.

Watch it and it will make your mood!

Mindy Lahiri (Mindy Kaling) is a single gal in the city. She's an OBGYN doctor in a Manhattan practice with Danny Castellano (Chris Messina), Jeremy Reed (Ed Weeks) and later Peter Prentice (Adam Pally). Morgan Tookers (Ike Barinholtz), Beverly (Beth Grant), Betsy Putch (Zoe Jarman) and Tamra (Xosha Roquemore) are the nurses.

With Mindy Kaling coming off of her memorable role in The Office, I was expecting something much better than the usual network fare. She has a few interesting takes but this is mostly the regular single-gal-in-the-city show. The most outrageous thing here is that she's a minority actor in the lead of a regular show. She doesn't really play up that fact. Other than a brother, her family aspect isn't used much. She plays up her chubbiness more than her ethnicity. Mindy does struggle from time to time to find the flow. Her revolving door of relationships does leave me scratching my head a little. However that happens in single gal shows all the time. My minor complaint is that this is not as daring as I hoped but it is still very good with excellent writing. After 3 seasons, it gets canceled by Fox but the show gets a second life elsewhere.

I would enjoy this show more if Mindy wasn't a doctor. She often portrays Mindy as a silly lovesick teenager. Very immature but witty at the same time. Doctors do not act this vapid. If they do I don't want them to be my doctor. There are some funny lines and it's light and brainless. Maybe this was supposed to be in the same vein as Scrubs. I soon found the character to be annoying. I like Mindy Kaling. She was terrific as Kelly in The Office playing a desperate man hungry girl/woman. This character seems an extension of Kelly with the unlikely premise that Kelly could actually make it through med school.

Mindy is funny and relatable. The show takes its ups and downs as does Mindy but that is how life is. Life is messy and relationships can be messy. The Mindy Project gets that. The last episode just really tied it all in and I loved it. I cried during the last episode..... watch it start to finish and you won't be disappointed.