It’s really growing on me. I don’t think I can really describe it, or say why I like it; “humourous rather than funny” might be a good description. It’s entertaining, maybe, rather than knee-slappingly funny.
I saw a few episodes. Each episode had one or two solid jokes, but it’s certainly not must-see for me.
I have a general measurement for rating sitcoms: Is it top-half or bottom-half? That is, on the list ranking the currently on-air sitcoms by quality. The Mindy Project might be top half, barely.
I thought the opening of this week’s episode (Season 1, Episode 14, “Harry & Mindy”) was pretty funny. (As a reminder, it showed her visiting the Empire State Building, which she said she went to every couple of weeks, to find a romantic partner, and how this looked suspicious to building security. My description makes it sound less funny than it was on the show.)
Tall, dark, early-to-mid 30’s…
I’ve only seen a couple of recent episodes, but my wife and I both laughed out loud and often. I may add it to the DVR soon.
hajario , You ask “How long do you think that people from India have been in the United States?”. I would ask, how long have Indian people been a significant portion of the population?
Indians currently constitute approximately 1% of the US population. When did they reach that population level? Perhaps a decade ago. Do you consider 1% to be a significant portion of the population?
Blacks constituted 12-15% of the population since the mid-19th century. Hispanics reached greater than 1% in 1940, approximately 5% of the population in 1970 and continued to grow.
I hope now you can see why it is indeed a very quick pace to have a primetime show featuring an indian title character.
No I don’t. That statement still makes no sense to me because there isn’t a defined starting point.
Pop culture tends to be provided to the mass market which may sustain it. Indians make up what would generally be considered an insignificant protion of the US population. There is very little televison created to reflect insignificant cultural forces.
“Julia” createds in 1968 is usually considerd to be the first tv series starring a black actor as an ordinary, independent adult.Even though blacks had been over 10% of the population (market) for all of televisions history.
While Desi Arnez is often credited as the first Hispanic TV star, the show, “I love Lucy” was a vehicle for the irish American character Lucy Ricardo (nee macGillicuddy). When “Chico and the Man” premiered in 1974, Hispanics were 5 times greater percentage of US population than Indians are today and had surpassed current indian percentage levels 3 decades before.
I don’t know how elde to explain to you that with “The Mindy Show”, Indians have achieved headline status in popular television culture far faster than other minority races in the US.
Again restating your question how long have people from India been in the US I can reply really not very long. In reality Indians are recent arrivals to the US having being barred from immigrating here fro0 many years which bar was only lifted after WWII. Yes, some did immigrate before the ban, but before WWII the number of US citizens born in India is incredibly small.
There are perhaps a quarter million Hmong people in the US. Would you expect there to be a show featuring a Hmong title character? if so, why?
If it were me, I might say “Hmong, eh? Huh.” And then move on and forget all about it.
I probably wouldn’t say it was “interesting” that it “happened so fast,” as though the Hmong hadn’t paid their second-class-citizen dues and were getting special treatment from Hollywood, as you seem to be insinuating about Indians.