Don't worry about The Mindy Project's pregnancy storyline — Mindy subverts genres - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 03-11-2015, 12:52 AM

http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/tele...?event=event25

"When the Fox show sets up conventional expectations, it's usually to defy them," says Matthew Gilbert. "Just when you think it's is a nice network sitcom about an intelligent, affable single woman looking for love and forming a workplace family in the city, an update of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, it reminds you it isn't. Rather than pulling a Ross-and-Rachel, for example, and stringing out the Mindy-Danny affair across many seasons and many breakup-makeups like most sitcoms, The Mindy Project got the couple together relatively quickly. And now, also quickly, before the end of season three, Mindy is pregnant."

irehtman · 03-17-2015, 08:44 PM

The birth-givings should occur in the next season, not this season.

AB · 03-18-2015, 04:25 PM

Yes it's certainly different from The Mary Tyler Moore Show. This pregnancy has been pretty funny so far, with them first trying to keep it a secret and then with the episode involving the priest. I hope the show stays on for several more seasons.

irehtman · 03-22-2015, 09:21 PM

You see if any of you can start a petition for this show.

If this show gets renewed, then put the petition on hold. Otherwise, multiple the effort on this type of petition as much as possible!

TMC · 03-26-2015, 01:04 AM

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/...ith_mindy.html

The pregnancy plot, says Miriam Krule, was "a device designed merely as an easily-conquered hurdle for the Danny-Mindy relationship, a wild narrative stunt rather than a real, interesting plot to wrestle with. It could have been a genuinely trailblazing sitcom storyline, and Kaling seemed like just the writer to take it on. If the show comes back for Season 4, maybe she still can."

03-11-2015, 12:52 AM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 125,775	Don't worry about The Mindy Project's pregnancy storyline — Mindy subverts genres http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/tele...?event=event25 "When the Fox show sets up conventional expectations, it's usually to defy them," says Matthew Gilbert. "Just when you think it's is a nice network sitcom about an intelligent, affable single woman looking for love and forming a workplace family in the city, an update of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, it reminds you it isn't. Rather than pulling a Ross-and-Rachel, for example, and stringing out the Mindy-Danny affair across many seasons and many breakup-makeups like most sitcoms, The Mindy Project got the couple together relatively quickly. And now, also quickly, before the end of season three, Mindy is pregnant."

03-26-2015, 01:04 AM	#5
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 125,775	The Mindy Project's pregnancy storyline was a wasted opportunity http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/...ith_mindy.html The pregnancy plot, says Miriam Krule, was "a device designed merely as an easily-conquered hurdle for the Danny-Mindy relationship, a wild narrative stunt rather than a real, interesting plot to wrestle with. It could have been a genuinely trailblazing sitcom storyline, and Kaling seemed like just the writer to take it on. If the show comes back for Season 4, maybe she still can."

03-17-2015, 08:44 PM	#2
irehtman Member Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 15, 2013 Location: Montgomery County, Maryland Posts: 4,826	The birth-givings should occur in the next season, not this season.

03-18-2015, 04:25 PM	#3
AB Member Eternal Member Forum Icon Join Date: Dec 26, 2006 Location: The South Posts: 59,429	Yes it's certainly different from The Mary Tyler Moore Show. This pregnancy has been pretty funny so far, with them first trying to keep it a secret and then with the episode involving the priest. I hope the show stays on for several more seasons.

03-22-2015, 09:21 PM	#4
irehtman Member Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 15, 2013 Location: Montgomery County, Maryland Posts: 4,826	You see if any of you can start a petition for this show. If this show gets renewed, then put the petition on hold. Otherwise, multiple the effort on this type of petition as much as possible!