New Mindy Kaling Show - Not Suitable for Work
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Anonymous
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Would she be given these multiple failed opportunities if she wasnt Indian?
I have seen her other work. Nothing memorable except she is always hooking into a white guy. |
Anonymous
I think shows run on fast forward these days, hoping for a neat package wrapped up in one or two 10-episode seasons that will springboard their next project. |
Anonymous
You're right, she's so busy with her husband... oh, wait. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| I like the show |
Anonymous
I think her multi-million-dollar career and three kids keep her quite busy. |
Anonymous
Hahah you think she got these opportunities BECAUSE she’s Indian? I have a bridge to sell you. |
Anonymous
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I love most of her shows. This one is just okay. It’s missing the really witty dialogue of her previous shows (the Mindy show had such funny zingers), and it doesn’t really have the heart of never have I ever. I don’t think she’s got as good a writers room.
It’s fine to watch while folding laundry or working out. I suspect her formula is a little harder to keep working because when she wrote Mindy show she was still in that age frame, as were her friends and connections in comedy writing, so they were able to hit all the right cultural references and angst stuff. This one just feels like a 40 somethings view of dumb things 20 somethings do. If feel like if she hired the snl please don’t destroy writing trio, this would land better. It’s just missing that oomph. For what this show SHOULD be — go back and watch Happy Endings. Same vibe of twenty somethings doing dumb things but the dialogue and writing is just so sharp. |
Anonymous
Yeah and I’ll throw in some oceanfront property in Arizona for free. |
Anonymous
SOLD! Mindy Kaling famously got her big break in the writers' room of "The Office" because of NBC's diversity program. Even she admits that she was "a diversity hire." That is not in dispute. Unfortunately but not surprisingly, Mindy yanked up the ladder behind her. Every single syllable of her writing is in desperate need for white heterosexual male validation. PPs are correct -- She always casts herself, or her thinly disguised Indian doppelganger, prostrating herself before an indifferent white man. If she could press a button that would magically turn her into a thin blonde white woman, she would jump on it with both feet. Other Indian women have taken notice. This should surprise no one because Mindy is much more conservative, especially on race, than her white female fanbase acknowledges. Black characters on her programs tick every box on the stereotype scorecard -- the sassy black woman, the Mandingo black man who can't control himself, the simpering black man who hates his blackness so much that he castrates himself for white (and Mindy's) amusement. Mindy's not alone in her family harboring a racist mindset against blacks. Her brother, Vijay Chokal-Ingam, like Mindy, is the child of a medical doctor and attended the finest private schools his entire life. Despite these advantages, Vijay failed to gain admission to medical school. Proving there are only two races in America -- Black and Not Black -- Vijay blamed affirmative action and those damned black people who get all the breaks for that flurry of rejection letters. He reapplied, claiming black heritage, and was admitted. See, those unqualified blacks took his spot! Well, it turns out maybe those medical schools that rejected him knew what they were doing. Vijay couldn't hack it! He dropped out! Oops! Meanwhile, the black students with the same academic qualifications succeeded where Vijay, with all his wealth and social privilege, failed. (And, no, I'm not buying Vijay's story that he dropped out because he decided that medicine wasn't for him. No, uh-uh, nope, no way. The fact that he never talks about his grades tells me all I need to know.) Mindy is no different. She owes her career to black people's continuing civil rights struggles, yet she and her non-black benefactors all pretend otherwise. https://slate.com/culture/2019/06/late-night-mindy-kaling-movie-the-office-diversity-hire.html https://deadline.com/2019/05/mindy-kaling-late-night-the-office-disruptors-interview-news-1202610283/ https://talkingpointsmemo.com/theslice/why-mindy-kaling-refuses-to-talk-about-race-and-why-i-care-so-much https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2015/11/97593/mindy-kaling-diversity-debate https://www.cnn.com/2015/04/07/living/feat-mindy-kaling-brother-affirmative-action https://nypost.com/2015/04/05/mindy-kalings-brother-pretended-to-be-black-to-get-into-med-school/ https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/mindy-kaling-brother-says-posed-black-med-school/1977684/ |
Anonymous
I like the show, but totally agree on Happy Endings. Such a great show. |
Anonymous
Please, please get a life. |
Anonymous
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I like the show. It's better than most other things on TV/streaming. It's not the best thing ever.
Sex Lives of College Girls was much funnier, but I think that might have something to do with the cast. I thought all three of the main leads were really, really good. This cast feels a bit middle of the road. There's no one I look at and think "oh, they are a star." They are solid TV sitcom actors but no one special. Also to the PP: there is an Indian character not his show but she is not "prostrating" herself in front of a white man. Sort of the opposite. She's ultra career focused and ignores advances from men. There are also two black male characters on the show and they are both smart, attractive, and in no way self-hating. I haven't watched all her other shows but I really don't know what you are talking about -- that's a weird take IMO. |
Anonymous
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Mindy Kaling reminds me of, oh, I'm having a hard time remember her name, ah, right, Margeret Cho.
Not quite an ur-talent but middling-talented, however, needs and ethnic crutch to distinguish herself. But there are so many competing figures in this pool that middling-talent and aging will fade her. Vulgarity is an easy safety and she, as well as Cho (as well as many other comedians), have leaned into it way too much. Their core voice in the huge talent pool is indistiguishable and gets lost. She should look at Cho as an example for what doesn't work. |
Anonymous
| I just find her to be so disgusting and painfully unfunny. |