# Hulu's Mindy Kaling's Four Weddings and a Funeral series **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, disney-hulu\ **Created:** [August 24, 2019, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulus-mindy-kalings-four-weddings-and-a-funeral-series/839312 "2019-08-24T13:49:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2019, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulus-mindy-kalings-four-weddings-and-a-funeral-series/839312/1 "2019-08-24T13:49:53Z")
“[Four Weddings and a Funeral](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109831/)” (1994) is one of my favorite movies of all time. The accents, the banter, the exquisitely ridiculous situations. Sure Andie MacDowell was a weak point. But other than her the performances were perfect—Hugh Grant, Simon Callow, … even the actors inteh small roles were perfect So, some of the podcasts I listen to started to promote a [reboot](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7587362/) as a TV series—with executive producer Mindy Kaling, and starring Nathalie Emmanuel (Missandei from “Game of Thrones”). Boy, does it suck hard. Every plot point is telegraphed far in advanced. The dialogue is lame and mechanically delivered. Not one of the jokes is funny or delivered well. It’s paced like a 10-hour long music video, with the character development being entirely on the most superficial level possible. The performances suck, but I don’t blame the actors. They’re doing the best they can with the terrible script and dialogue. Out of a sense of obligation, I’m probably going to finish the series, but … yuck. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2019, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulus-mindy-kalings-four-weddings-and-a-funeral-series/839312/2 "2019-08-24T14:39:48Z")
And the product placement is obnoxious. It’s a 10-episode commercial for [Hotels.com](http://Hotels.com) ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2019, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulus-mindy-kalings-four-weddings-and-a-funeral-series/839312/3 "2019-08-24T19:03:38Z")
Do they have the line _Buggerd me senseless_? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulus-mindy-kalings-four-weddings-and-a-funeral-series/839312/4 "2019-08-27T13:41:47Z")
Some of the podcasts I listen to have been heavily promoting Hulu’s new series “Four Weddings and a Funeral” ([Four Weddings and a Funeral (TV Mini Series 2019) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7587362/)) a sort of remake/reimagining/reboot of the 1994 Richard Curtis movie of the same name. It stars Nathalie Emmanuel (Missandei from “Game of Thrones”) and centers on four American friends living in London and their romantic misadventures. Mindy Kaling is the executive producer. Boy, is this show bad. The dialogue is bad, the plot is a series of predictable misadventures. Every development is telegraphed way in advance. It’s just absolutely awful. The first episode feels like a jumbled up version of “Love, Actually,” complete with posterboard speech. Is anyone else watching this? ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulus-mindy-kalings-four-weddings-and-a-funeral-series/839312/5 "2019-08-27T13:58:27Z")
To reiterate from other fleabag thread, um, WHAT! Four Weddings is (a) an an untouchable classic, and (b) quintessentially British. How can it be remade with Americans! ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulus-mindy-kalings-four-weddings-and-a-funeral-series/839312/6 "2019-08-27T14:02:28Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > To reiterate from other fleabag thread, um, WHAT! > > Four Weddings is (a) an an untouchable classic, and (b) quintessentially British. How can it be remade with Americans! Give it a watch. The first episode is genuinely great. Then it quickly gets really really bad. Infuriatingly bad. It’s still British. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulus-mindy-kalings-four-weddings-and-a-funeral-series/839312/7 "2019-08-27T14:12:19Z")
> [@NAF1138](#): > > Give it a watch. The first episode is genuinely great. To me, the first episode was exactly as bad as the subsequent episodes (I think there are two or three yet to be released). ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulus-mindy-kalings-four-weddings-and-a-funeral-series/839312/8 "2019-08-27T15:26:14Z")
I had almost managed to forget about this show and then along comes **Ascenray** :dubious:😛 I completely agree with your critique, including the reference to \*Love, Actually[/I]and the posterboard bit. I can’t believe they attempted such a blatant ripoff. I don’t know if it’s the actors or the characters, but with the exception of the guy that left the bride at the altar, I find all the people involved completely unappealing. Also, why on earth would they make the main characters American? It’s surprising that dreck such as this comes from the talented Mindy Kaling. ---
**Author:** ![Royal\_Nonesutch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecb155/32.png) [@Royal\_Nonesutch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Royal_Nonesutch)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulus-mindy-kalings-four-weddings-and-a-funeral-series/839312/9 "2019-08-27T15:48:39Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > It’s surprising that dreck such as this comes from the talented Mindy Kaling. So does that mean there are TWO Mindy Kalings? And one of them actually has talent??? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulus-mindy-kalings-four-weddings-and-a-funeral-series/839312/10 "2019-08-27T16:01:54Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I had almost managed to forget about this show and then along comes **Ascenray** :dubious:😛 Yer welcome. > [@](#): > > I completely agree with your critique, including the reference to \*Love, Actually[/I]and the posterboard bit. I can’t believe they attempted such a blatant ripoff. I don’t mind this kind of thing in theory, but it, like everything else, just seems dropped into place to remind us of something else that we might have liked. I mean, is there a particular reason that John Reynolds (portraying Duffy) is always styled to look exactly like a grown up Harry Potter? > [@](#): > > I don’t know if it’s the actors or the characters, but with the exception of the guy that left the bride at the altar, I find all the people involved completely unappealing. To me it’s not that they are unappealing, as such, but they seem to be shallow sketches entirely constructed with cliches and plot necessities. None of the characters feels like a real person. And, of course, in the original, we as the audience are really hit hard by the funeral because it’s a character that we have grown to have genuine feelings for and have understood his importance as a member of the group. The funeral is devastating, with John Hannah’s recitation of Auden. The funeral in this series means nothing. > [@](#): > > Also, why on earth would they make the main characters American? No idea. > [@](#): > > It’s surprising that dreck such as this comes from the talented Mindy Kaling. Actually, I haven’t liked anything from her since about the second season of “The Mindy Project.” I think success and her obsession with the most superficial aspects of pop culture have really made her inaccessible to normal society. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulus-mindy-kalings-four-weddings-and-a-funeral-series/839312/11 "2019-08-27T16:04:18Z")
I just realized that I already started a thread on this. I have asked the mods to merge them. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulus-mindy-kalings-four-weddings-and-a-funeral-series/839312/12 "2019-08-27T16:29:16Z")
> [@NAF1138](#): > > Give it a watch. The first episode is genuinely great. Then it quickly gets really really bad. Infuriatingly bad. It’s still British. Through a bit of digging… the location might be London, but the series is American. Probably why I’ve never heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulus-mindy-kalings-four-weddings-and-a-funeral-series/839312/13 "2019-08-27T19:03:28Z")
I actually really hated the movie _Four Weddings and a Funeral_. Awful people. Unfunny situations. Oh, a “nice” character dies so we can shed a few tears. I never believed Hugh Grant and Andy McDowell as a couple. Almost as excruciating to watch as _Love, Actually_ which I hated even more. All to say, I’ve avoided this series like the plague. On edit: Kristin Scott Thomas is the one with a duck face!!! ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulus-mindy-kalings-four-weddings-and-a-funeral-series/839312/14 "2019-08-27T19:47:11Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > To me, the first episode was exactly as bad as the subsequent episodes (I think there are two or three yet to be released). Maybe it’s just that in the first episode the actors were all still delightful and the terrible terrible horrible plot lines hadn’t gone to the worst possible conclusions and I still had faith that the show runners had a plan. They do not. It’s terrible. Duffy is one of the most horrible characters ever written. The reality show plot line is one of the stupidest plots ever written. The secret child plot os awful. The I’m in love with my best friends ex plot is awful. The political plots go no where and are awful. The one interesting idea, rich kid gets stood up at her wedding and cut off financially and has to actually learn to live like a grown up for the first time ever… Gets dropped immediately. The death is awful. Kash and his story are pretty good if you remove all involvement from the core group of friends. That feels like something real. It’s the only reason I’m still watching. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulus-mindy-kalings-four-weddings-and-a-funeral-series/839312/15 "2019-08-27T21:42:58Z")
[Moderating] Merged threads. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulus-mindy-kalings-four-weddings-and-a-funeral-series/839312/16 "2019-08-27T22:20:25Z")
> [@NAF1138](#): > > Duffy is one of the most horrible characters ever written. Agreed. Grown up Harry Potter’s decisions make zero sense. > [@](#): > > The reality show plot line is one of the stupidest plots ever written. Agreed. > [@](#): > > The secret child plot os awful. Agreed. > [@](#): > > The I’m in love with my best friends ex plot is awful. Agreed. > [@](#): > > The political plots go no where and are awful. Agreed. > [@](#): > > The one interesting idea, rich kid gets stood up at her wedding and cut off financially and has to actually learn to live like a grown up for the first time ever… Gets dropped immediately. Agreed. Notably, this plotline features a cameo by Andie MacDowell. > [@](#): > > The death is awful. Awful in the sense that they failed to make me care about it. And, just to be clear, it’s not the plot outline that’s the problem here. It’s the execution. Every character’s behavior is dictated by the demands of the plot. Nothing seems natural or arising out of the characters themselves. Every line of dialogue is a cliche that seems lifted from some other romantic comedy. > [@](#): > > Kash and his story are pretty good if you remove all involvement from the core group of friends. That feels like something real. It’s the only reason I’m still watching. Well, of course, except for the fact of how the story line got kicked off. He falls in lust days before his wedding and doesn’t make any decisions until the officiant at his wedding him prompts him for his “I do.” That’s all plot-driven behavior, the plot driving for the absolutely most cliched melodramatic moment. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulus-mindy-kalings-four-weddings-and-a-funeral-series/839312/17 "2019-08-27T22:21:26Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Do they have the line _Buggerd me senseless_? I don’t think so, not yet anyway. But if they do, they’ll deliver it in the least funny way possible. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulus-mindy-kalings-four-weddings-and-a-funeral-series/839312/18 "2019-09-29T22:30:19Z")
And the latest episode rips off the Portobello Market change of seasons scene from “Notting Hill,” with a Hindi-language version of “Ain’t No Sunshine” playing. This series is ripping off every English rom-com imaginable, not just ideas or concepts or plot points, but actual scenes. It’s shameful. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2019, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulus-mindy-kalings-four-weddings-and-a-funeral-series/839312/19 "2019-09-30T03:33:09Z")
I’d watch a full series of Bash and Fatima. They’re friggin’ adorable. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2019, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulus-mindy-kalings-four-weddings-and-a-funeral-series/839312/20 "2019-09-30T10:32:38Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > I’d watch a full series of Bash and Fatima. They’re friggin’ adorable. I won’t disagree