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The Mindy Project

The Mindy Project was from 2013-2017, and is on Netflix in 2023, where I'm watching it.

The humor is packed with quirky details like when her date picks her up she's shaving her arms. There have been times when I thought the structure of the situation joke was quite funny. I'm not sure how I feel about the endless small breasts and big butt jokes, but it's supposedly OK because she signs off on them. I think what equality has taught us is that it's not really revolutionary, it's just that those being oppressed are in on it. Well, it's not that dramatic, people are one thing in public and one thing in private. Not everyone agrees to be woke, some people fight for the right to be unwoke. The show is Sex and The City at a Gynecology practice, with one focus instead of 4 women. It gives helpful health education tips to defray the lowbrow horney women narrative. I'm racking my brain for the show where women are allowed to eat. Oh yea, Parks and Recreation. And every other trailblazer female. Mindy Kaling doesn't have a hollywood body, and that's great. She's the Roseanne of Americans with Indian heritage, except she went to Dartmouth. The more I start to push it, the more I sound like I'm against inclusion and representation, and I'm watching this show and enjoying it, and I can have qualms later about jokes I didn't find funny, but comedy has to push boundaries, and touch sensibilities. She's obviously talented, and that's what the show is about her talent. I applaud her. 

She references When Harry Met Sally, and Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, but it's also John Hughes, he's the king of setting the stage for a great love reveal, after all these obstacles, and challenges, and miscommunications and the whole time you're like just get together like some yenta, but the movie teases it and two steps forward one step back, it's not exactly Jane Austin, but the movie is over once they get married so they can't get married, they have to do this long and tortured dance.

One of the weird thing of catching up on network TV sitcoms is you see cameos from other actors you know from elsewhere. When Schmidt from New Girl, showed up on Mindy, I was amazed. He was a different character. Max Greenfield is the actor's name. Winston's girlfriend makes a cameo too. 

In the end I get tired of her pretending to be a horney single career woman in New York and I wonder if the show has jumped the shark in season 3, when there are 6 seasons. I'm going to watch it all, but I'm not happy about it.

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