My partner and I have been watching TMP as our easy escape lately -- first watch for both of us. We're late in S2 now, right after the big thing happens. I just fell victim to the temptation to read spoilers and scan this sub for people's impressions, though, and now know that a beloved character is about to be metaphorically assassinated by the writers. 😭 Oh wise TMP sub, please be honest: Should we quit while we're ahead instead of allowing the show to increasingly let us down, or is there still enjoyment to be had?

In s4 right now and the few episodes where he was away were THE BEST. Hate his character and what he does to Mindy. I loved how she always owned up to her imperfections and as a people pleaser myself, it made me feel encouraged to be true to myself.

But Danny is so wrong in so so many levels and he diminishes the fire of Mindy.

Bad girls by M.I.A was such an empowering song in s01 but now it doesn't feel the same way when they played it as she scrubbed in :(

I hope there aren't people who actually support him?? And i hope they break up my goddd. I understand the familiarity and stability he gives her but he's just a straight up gaslighting manipulater.

And i hate how Mindy is being a push over? They both really should've understood their differences before hitting it off.

Ok that's all for the midnight rant bye

Currently started season 6 and Mindy is such a horrible person. An extreme narcissist and I feel like the character is totally unlikable. Getting very hard to watch but I just wanna see how it ends. I wonder if anyone agrees or if the majority of viewers like her character. I liked her at the start of the show but as it went along I started not liking Mindy.

hello if anyones here this is my first time ever watching i’m on season 2 episode 3 i’m trying to avoid spoilers but this shows gives me so much life it’s like if sex and the city meets the office meets scrubs. i’ve always wanted to watch it i love mindy!

Binge watching MP for the first time since it was on. I have a new admiration for Dr. Jeremy Reed. He sells the tut tut British oneliners and I am buying. Casey was such a good get and perfect fit with Mindy. Peter Prentiss was a desperately needed shot in the arm. But I have got to give it up for Chris Messina. I think before he was mostly a dramatic actor but he gets in, contributes, and keeps up. My favorite thing I noticed is that when there's a shot of him crossing the street with Mindy, he always puts his arm behind her in a protective way. I just love that.

Premise ideas? what can we do to make this happen? it would be an instant classic...

I don't have any good ideas but would love to hear other peoples!

First, how DARE you? Second, HOW DARE YOU?!

I just wish that in season 2 episode 13 LA, Mindy and Casey had gotten back together. Or even in whatever season it was later when he showed up -- currently doing a rewatch and I'm on season 2 ep 13.

I just love Casey. He and Mindy were perfectly suited and just belong together. Like if they weren't gonna make them endgame, they shouldn't have made them so perfect -- it's like Haley and Andy in Modern Family🙄

I'm not here to hate Morgan, I think he's hilarious and loveable. I don't understand why he goes on every trip in the series though. He's the only nurse to fly with the doctors to seminars. He drive with Danny to go take care of his father. He went camping with Mindy, Casey, Danny, and Christina. I'm curious why he gets so much screentime.

I was SURE there was a hilarious scene where Mindy inflates her life vest in a plane to use as a neck pillow, but I can't find it. I've searched and scanned through a whole bunch of episodes, and now I'm wondering if I made it up, or it's from a totally different show??

I am honestly shocked that this was a storyline so often referenced even back when the show first aired. But holy cow does it make a binge watch this week a huge struggle. Season 4 is absolutely terrible but hearing that she donated to the Trump campaign was almost enough for me to stop watching all together. Would LOVE to know what Mindy Kaling was thinking about including this both then and now…. IMO this show absolutely aged like milk.

Why do I feel like ever since it started each season has gotten worse?

I liked all of Mindy’s friends in season 1 and they just wrote them out and never talked about them again.

Even her work squad is so different now. There was a lack of the supporting actors backgrounds/lives. I actually kinda liked Peter and was bummed that he got out

Also Danny is such a dick to Mindy it’s crazy… he is an even worse to her now than when he was her opp. It literally doesn’t make sense why she’s with Danny I feel like all her other boyfriends were nicer than him 😭😭 he’s crazy condescending and thinks he’s better than her when he can’t make the same sacrifice

I hate Danny so bad. I still watch the show cus I wanna see how it ends but I find normally I enjoy the show more in the beginning

I am obsessed with Mindy’s style but especially am the coats/jackets she wears. Anyone know where the stylist gets some of these things from??

This is my internal monologue as I watch this show:

• Oh wow, I know that guy! He played the cop in that movie "Devil!!" I love that movie!

• Oh shit! Bill Hyder??

• What??!!! That's the woman who played the crazy gym teacher in Donnie Darko!!!

• Oh wait, I recognize her...YES! She played the other high status lady in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt!

• Marnie??!!! From Girls?!

• The weird brother from Transparent and the Charles Manson clone from Search Party?!!!!

• Oh shit! Seth Rogan??!

• Nev Patel from The Social Network?!!!!

• Jussie Smollet pre-empire???

• OMG its the unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt herself!!

• JAMES FRANCO!!!?

• WTF?!! is that CHLOE MFING SEVIGNY??!

• CARLA FROM CHEERS?!!!!

• Dot...why does Dot look SO SO familiar, I cant place her....OH MY GOD she was the Devil in the movie Devil that Danny was also in, god so weird to see the two of them together in a comedy after that bloody psychological horror movie!

• The guy from Its Always Sunny!

• ....The other guy from Its Always Sunny!

• Skyler from Breaking Bad??!

• The Dad from CLUELESS?!!!

• KEVIN SMITH??! ugh...dont love the fat jokes

• TIM DALY?!!!! ITS SO GOOD TO SEE HIM!

• Steve Weber!!! He used to play in Wings decades ago with Tim Daly, didnt he???

• The mean intern from Scrubs!

• The mother from How I met your mother!! lol okay I know shes an actress and all but to see her go from that to a coke-addicted finance mogul was a trip

• Tahini's Dad from Scrubs?!!!

• Raj from Big Bang Theory?!

• JOSEPH GORDON LEVITT!!!!!

• The funny blonde actress from MadTV who also played on Scrubs!!!

And on and on and on. JFC How many cameos did they manage to get?!

Also I may be watching too much tv and movies ahahahah

Nothing really to say except I love this show so much, every time I watch it I wish I was an OBGYN and that I had her life. It makes me want to divorce my husband and go live my best single life (jkjk, but I really do live vicariously through this show). Probably my top 3 favorite shows of all time. I wish it never ended.

I had always wanted to watch this because I do really like the case, but never got a chance to.

I had to put my beloved little cat, King, down last week and as such was looking for a funny distraction I could just get into and Netflix recommended this to me.

I loved seeing 6 seasons and like 23 episodes!

Here's just my random thoughts so far:

• I really love this main character. It's so nice to see a female lead who is so quirky, true to herself, defiant of trends, but not overly so and just so fucking hysterical. I have laughed OUT LOUD several times in this show

• The show is weird about rotating characters out! I loved her best friend and the daughter from the first few episodes and it's like they were sent to the cornfields with one, and then both receptionists

• Jeremy is WAY too hot to be so conscious

• I dont love that every one of Mindy's love interest is like an impossibly handsome clean tall white guy

• I found some of her relationships, like with the pastor, and with Danny to be really believable because it was somewhat over natural time. Others, like Cliff and Jody made no sense to me

• Morgan is criminally overused and overabused as the "lovable stupid punching bag"

• Beverly is criminally underused, her whole character is hysterical

• I hate Jody, but love Corinne

• The chemistry between Mindy, Jeremy, Danny and the crazy doctor was the peak humor for this show

• It was so weird to see other acting greats, in small parts like fucking the dude from big bang theory as a very confident and wealthy suitor, or the legend rhea Perlman as dannys mother, and the evil dude from social network as Danny's fun gay brother lol. This season it's the Mother from HOIMYM and the protaganist from the starship episode of Dark Mirror and the mean intern from Scrubs as Mindys girl besties who are a recovering coke addict hedge fund manager and sex obsessed publicist respectively lma0

• I hate that since I work in HR, I become a little judgmental of office environments and though I love these characters, they are criminally toxic and horrible to each other lol. Basically it felt like every story thread in S3 and S4 was "one character comes up with a lie, gets caught by another character and will be exposed by another character - commence antics" it got a little boring after awhile

• Mindy's writing is top caliber. Her one-liners, zingers, clapbacks and outbursts are really great writing

• That breakup scene in S3 was one of the best Ive ever seen in television and had me in tears. The montage of them sometimes fighting, sometimes getting alone, with updates that the wedding was postponed (with the registry still being active), mindys sad apologetic smile to the couples counselor and her taking what he said about fitting the armoire as a sign, and reversing it to the crib back at her old place, and her sad return "home" was so fucking sad and powerful without saying a word. I loved similarly how it continued with Danny deciding to leave the practice and the only thing it shows is him taking away his nameplate and her noticing it.

• I know its natural for these shows, especially with later seasons, but im finding myself losing patience and immersion with some of the stupider storylines, like the episode where baby Leo was going to be on TV, or yet another houseparty where Mindy has an awkward situation with suitors and at some point the dogs will be used for humor

Overall, love the series, 9.10, but looking forward to its ending so I can go back to earlier seasons where I think the quirk was on a smaller scale and led to funnier situations

Mindy is at the counter asking Shuana and Betsy to send her better patients. Betsy is holding a living turtle. Why?

The show has made me do a lot of self-reflecting as a woman, a mom, my life in a long term relationship, single life and dating life. In a way it has kind of given me the strength to make more of an effort to move in a forward direction in my life after looking back and thinking of where I want to go forward to.

But the humor is so funny that I look forward to watching it so much I'm starting to get depressed thinking about it ending.When I binge shows I end up going through them fast.. I'm sad that at some point it will be done .. it's so hard to get into the next show.. Love Mindy's humor and all the characters..

I can not stand Danny.. reminds me so much of my ex but I am fortunately wasn't a doctor so I was kind of stuck in it longer. I cried so hard when she measured the crib.

im coming to the end of S3 and i literally cannot stand danny😭 he has such an issue with mindy’s weight especially during pregnancy and it bugs me so much. i swear shes not even big? like shes got curves but is completely slim? its so bizarre to me. hes also so toxic too, just not a fan whatsoever.

Can we talk about Jody ????? Does anyone like him? Hes so sexist and I feel like Mindy adopts micro sexist ideals

Wondering about it this because—and I know there’s a lot of speculation already about Kaling and Novak’s relationship—the fight in season four about commitment made me think of them.

Can anyone help me remember which episode refers to how much stuff/items Mindy keeps/stores in her bed? It was a one line joke but I can relate and can’t remember which episode…thanks! Definitely in the first or second season

I tried finding one on Etsy, so when I couldn’t, I slapped this together to get me through for now.

Currently on Season 3. No spoilers please.

Danny Castellano. The archetype cynical lead love interest. Except, there is no redeeming to his cynicism and conservative beliefs. He's just so out of line with the entire thing of forcing Mindy to stay at home, when he couldn't even do it himself for one day. Despite her indecisiveness and superficiality, Mindy is a great doctor at the end of day and deserves and needs to go back to work if she wants to. Why can't this guy understand that? He is always pushing and shaming Mindy into acting according to his artificial standards and beliefs which is just so regressive and unacceptable. And the entire thing of scheming to sneakily get her pregnant, that was beyond vile and so deceptive. Ugh I hate this guy.

I swear this shocked me as soon as I saw it this is a 90’s hair book and the first thing that’s in my mind is “Mindy?” Please tell me I’m not crazy and this actually looks like her

I absolutely love this show. It's so comforting and I love seeing the friendships of Mindy and her coworkers. Also, it has taught me some things which I've never experienced in a fictional TV show.

I absolutely loved single Mindy and when Mindy started her fertility practice. Being a woc, it's inspiring and I loved seeing how she made it work:single motherhood, and just being an absolute boss. She was insecure definitely and undervalued her worth, but when she really put her mind to her practice, she flourished.

I did wish we had more single Mindy and we skipped over the Ben situation. In my mind, her and Danny both got therapy (separate and couples therapy). They split to work on themselves, then got back together (after seriously working on their issues). Orrrrrr, she ended up with Cliff (w/o the cheating), I really wish we got more of their relationship.

I know they sort of got back together at the end but I didn't see the change in danny that I wanted to.

I have a huge crush on Chris Messina so it's hard to not like him, but Danny needed therapy BAD. It was so easy for him to get engaged after hesitating with Mindy. He was just a mess but man did I love him before he got with Mindy. Also, it seemed he was low key jealous of Mindy's business. He literally said he didn't want to be the dad who abandons his kid then leaves his fiance and baby to take care of his dad for months? I get his dad was sick but dude fr?

Anyways, just a rant. I loved Mindy as an actress and I love this show. I will never get tired, and it is so fun to look at in a real world lense. Even though the ending is debatable, it's fun to see Peter, Morgan, and Jeremy's growth. It's also fun to see how Mindy's has grown in her relationship with Annette.

I’m rewatching the show & its getting excessive how much Mindy brings up “how tiny I am” or “I barely eat I’m little” kinda thing. Same with other characters bringing up her weight randomly when it has nothing to do with the conversation. I assumed this was a commentary on the cringe-ness of beauty standards in our society but I’m slowly feeling like it was not intentional to come off like that? I’ve never watched interviews on it or seen things on the commentary but what are your guys thoughts?