The Mindy Show Analysis

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On September 25, 2012, Mindy Kaling launched her own television series on Fox called The Mindy Project. She already had a pretty decent fan base because of her role as Kelly Kapoor on the hit comedy The Office. In both shows that she starred in, she was not just an actress, but also an executive producer, writer, and even a director. However, in her very own show The Mindy Project, she plays a different character then she played on The Office. On The Mindy Project, she is a doctor who works in NYC. Throughout the show, she is trying to tackle being a professional doctor, but also a balanced woman in her social life. The show is also set to be a romantic drama, because she falls in love with her best friend and co-worker, Danny. But, the show …show more content…

Fans (like me) were shocked and kind of upset that the show was already going to be cancelled just after three short seasons. However, that’s when Hulu (thankfully) stepped in, and just a short while later in May of 2015, decided to make a fourth season with twenty-six brand new episodes. Fans were thrilled they were able to stream The Mindy Project and they were even more thrilled when it was decided this May that Hulu was going to do a fifth season. So what is it that has this show so successful? Well for starters it is not hard to like Mindy Kaling. She is funny, but yet smart at the same time. The way that she portrays her character in both The Mindy Project and The Office, are something that girls around her age can relate to. For example, in The Mindy Project, she is a doctor—someone who is relatively looked at as the epitome of success, (which is what pretty much everyone strives for,) but she is also a little bit of a mess with her personal life. She is always trying to balance her relationship troubles, with her work life, and her social life while trying to be a well-rounded, person. Just because her character is a “doctor” does not by

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