Season two of this drama comes up with new excitement that follows Mindy Lahiri, a beautiful gynecologist, who struggles against balancing between her personal and professional life. In this new season, Mindy has to deal with her relationship with Casey.
I'm constantly wondering why more people aren't willing to take their relationship with both characters and this consistently hilarious show to the next... level.
The Mindy Project isn't the first sitcom to fearlessly pursue serialized story lines, but the show weaves them together well, and with total confidence.
Liking characters isn't essential to successful comedy - see the works of Larry David and Ricky Gervais, for instance - but you're setting the laugh bar much higher in that case, and Mindy isn't clearing it for me.
Mindy spent a lot of time last season trying to find its voice - and given the tone, rhythm, and finesse of the premiere's best lines, it seems like that journey yielded good results.
There's the sense that The Mindy Project finally has all of the pieces it needs to create a show that's consistently good, instead of just erratically so.
