1/26/2024 0 Comments Moments in love mindy k![]() So when Mindy finally breaks up with a guy who's been wrong for her since the moment he stepped on screen, the breakup should be more about Mindy. It's cathartic to see ourselves, or our past selves, in Mindy's trials and tribulations - it's the gooey center of the show that keeps us around while the jokes keep us in stitches. There should be a moment that lets us see the actual issue and the reason Mindy has called herself the titular Project: she hasn't yet learned how to do this relationship thing and, folks, it's hard.īreakups have a way of sending all of us to that dark place: Was it me? Did I not try hard enough? Did I do too much? Did I not do enough? Those moments of self doubt and subsequent ego resurrections are one of the reasons The Mindy Project is so lovable: Mindy falls down hard, and Beyonce Pad Thai emerges stronger and with a great one-liner. Still, when it came time to break up, there should have been some element of sympathy for Mindy. It's one thing to want a relationship, it's another to take one because it's sitting there in front of you like a pile of stale, cold french fries. I began rooting for a breakup like a tween shipping Jelena. Mindy would never actually date this guy, let alone agree to marry him. It's like Mindy just gets me.īut when Mindy fell into a committed relationship with Casey, the beat-boxing pastor, I cried foul. Like Mindy, I date the wrong guys I fall for people who've already found their "person" but haven't figured out it's not me I'm oh-so perpetually single. As a fellow serially unlucky in love lady, I get it, and that's part of the reason I've stuck by The Mindy Project in its rougher patches. In these situations, it was easy to feel for Mindy. When she thought Jamie (BJ Novak) was good a egg, he was actually in love with his best friend and Mindy was the distraction. Brendan (Mark Duplass), he treated her poorly and then creepily pined after her. When she found Josh, he was cheating on her. Mindy's problem isn't meeting guys, it's keeping them around. This stuff is hard for Mindy that's the point of the entire series. This breakup just wasn't composed that way.īut it should have been. As much as those of us who like to fancy ourselves Beyonce Pad Thai-level life ninjas, willing and ready to weather anything life decides to throw our way, breakups hurt no matter how strong or autonomous you are. We were supposed to be sad and by all rights, the episode should have moved me. Narrative cues suggest this wasn't supposed to be a breakup that made us giddy. And while Mindy was so in love she was willing to marry this man, I couldn't help but be giddy when she finally cut the chord - even as Mindy sat alone in her room, bearing the weight of another failed relationship. L and Casey (Anders Holm) officially broke off their engagement (so that Mindy can go off and date Glenn Howerton and Timothy Olyphant when they guest star on the Fox series). Tuesday night, The Mindy Project took us to a music festival and then straight to the heartbreak hotel.
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