It's so weird being my own role model

I do still watch. I wish it was coming back sooner. I thought it was funny. I still really enjoy the show, but more as a comedy than the serial aspects of it.

Oops, I didn’t notice these questions. For some reason, Tumblr didn’t show them in my box. I don’t know what I want as far as Mindy and Danny. I know what I DON’T want, which is for the last season to have a  rushed feel as they struggle to figure out a way to 1) Get rid of Ben and 2) Have Mindy and Danny get back together. I’d like the ending to feel organic. That’s more important to me than Mindy and Danny being together.

And I’m not sure if I want them to be endgame for another reason. For a while, I felt like they were bad for each other because Danny was so controlling, but I wanted him to get counseling or something so they could end up together because Mindy was so in love with him. Now, I’m not really sure she is anymore. Also, idk, Danny is really a jerk. Like how many chances is she supposed to give him, and we are supposed to be happy about it? I feel like it just can’t work at this point.

I don’t know. As I said to the anon below, I feel like it is popular enough to be renewed by Hulu. It’s their most popular original, and since the cast has proven to be pretty flexible (meaning they can obviously live without pretty much anyone other than Mindy or Ike), I wouldn’t think salaries are an issue. They’ve also obviously been good about letting people take off to do other projects. But I just think that maybe Mindy won’t want to do it anymore. The wedding seemed so abrupt that I wonder if they just felt like they had to end the show with a wedding because she has been engaged before and obviously didn’t get married, and she already has a baby. I wonder if the two episodes they cut would have made it less choppy.

I hope it will be back. I think actors like Peter Dinklage and Emilia Clarke have certainly shown it is possible to do a 10-episode show while still filming movies. But, of course, Mindy Kaling’s responsibilty on TMP is more than just acting. 

If I was a betting person, I’d bet on it being back, mostly because I think they’d have announced yesterday’s episode as a series finale if it wasn’t coming back. But I bet that if it is back, it will be back for fewer episodes and maybe not until 2018.

Wow, why are you so angry about a television show? If you hate it so much, there are a lot of other shows to read about. And I’m not “bragging” about it. Bragging would seem to imply I had something to do with its success. I’m just glad it’s going out (if it is going out) on a high note.

And, no, actually, Mindy Project is popular in the same range as Netflix shows. They don’t usually release ratings, but this article from 2016 talks about the most popular streaming shows, and it is not only Hulu’s most popular ½ hour comedy original (so beating Casual and Difficult People, which are both also heavily promoted), but the 7th most popular streaming comedy overall, and that is competing with some Netflix shows that weren’t mentioned (For example, Grace and Frankie, with an all-star cast, apparently doesn’t do as well as TMP). http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/amazon-transparent-hulu-netflix-making-a-murderer-112263-catastrophe-1201798269/

So yeah, it’s doing fine. It will never be able to outdo shows like Family Guy or Golden Girls, both of which have many more episodes than TMP and, in Golden Girls’ case, the advantage of novelty (Right now, TMP is ranked as most popular series behind those two), but it is doing very well and, if this is its last season, that will be because Mindy Kaling decided to end it, because it is clearly Hulu’s most popular original comedy.

It is obviously a cult show and will never have the ratings of The Big Bang Theory. That’s why it’s cool that there are so many different venues to watch television these days, so we don’t all have to like the same thing.

I won’t be answering further negative comments from you because I don’t like to feed trolls (and definitely not on my own blog), but I liked that article, so I love having an excuse to repost it. Again, I suggest you watch some other show if Mindy Project makes you so angry. I literally never think about shows I don’t like myself, other than thinking, “Oh, I have to change the channel because I don’t watch Dancing With the Stars,” or whatever.