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shallownessI hadn’t realised The Mindy Project was back on air in the UK – because I'd failed to make the connection that if New Girl (which E4 is actually promoting) was back, so would TMP be. Then I wondered if I’d decided I was dumping the show after the second season. I’ve subsequently checked, and that wasn't the case, although I had mixed feeling about it. The show’s cancelled, though, anyway, isn’t it, which bodes well for the quality...
The Mindy Project
3.1 We’re a Couple Now, Haters
And they face what that means head on for Mindy and Danny and work. But let’s get real, they’ve got rid of Betsey, the amount of awkward ‘...’ responses from me, contrasted with smiles, snorts or actual laughs in response to what was on screen is not flattering. I mainly want a sitcom to amuse me. And I could contrast my response to how much I enjoyed Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
What would help Mindy keep those secrets is if she’d kept her non-work girlfriends from season 1 with whom she could legitimately discuss her issues with Danny.
As we ended with what we’ll call showrunner’s prerogative, I totted up how sweet the list Danny read out to Mindy was, the puny number of laughs and whether I care about the non Mindy/Danny stuff. We had some nods to romcom clichés, but that’s not where the bulk of the humour came from. I’m teetering as to whether to drop the show.
In other TV news, the Beeb, which has forged a relationship with the Agatha Christie estate to celebrate her centenary, is doing an adaptation of Partners in Crime i.e. Tommy and Tuppence. I am looking forward to Jessica Raine as Tuppence, but David Walliams isn’t my mental idea of Tommy at all, and he’ll have to overcome that the last time I saw him was camping it up to wind Simon Cowell up on BGT (not my choice to watch it).
The Mindy Project
3.1 We’re a Couple Now, Haters
And they face what that means head on for Mindy and Danny and work. But let’s get real, they’ve got rid of Betsey, the amount of awkward ‘...’ responses from me, contrasted with smiles, snorts or actual laughs in response to what was on screen is not flattering. I mainly want a sitcom to amuse me. And I could contrast my response to how much I enjoyed Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
What would help Mindy keep those secrets is if she’d kept her non-work girlfriends from season 1 with whom she could legitimately discuss her issues with Danny.
As we ended with what we’ll call showrunner’s prerogative, I totted up how sweet the list Danny read out to Mindy was, the puny number of laughs and whether I care about the non Mindy/Danny stuff. We had some nods to romcom clichés, but that’s not where the bulk of the humour came from. I’m teetering as to whether to drop the show.
In other TV news, the Beeb, which has forged a relationship with the Agatha Christie estate to celebrate her centenary, is doing an adaptation of Partners in Crime i.e. Tommy and Tuppence. I am looking forward to Jessica Raine as Tuppence, but David Walliams isn’t my mental idea of Tommy at all, and he’ll have to overcome that the last time I saw him was camping it up to wind Simon Cowell up on BGT (not my choice to watch it).
