What I’m Watching: The Mindy Project (Season Finale)

The Mindy Project: Season 1, Episode 24 “Take Me with You” (C+)

This finale is representative of the entire first season of this show – entertaining and appealing but ultimately inconsistent and unsatisfying. The thought of Mindy going to Haiti to be with Casey at any point never made sense, and that’s also because she doesn’t ever act much like an intelligent doctor. Cutting her hair is something she would never do, and I find it very hard to believe that she was compelled to action after, much more believably, trying to get out of going with Casey by saying that she wouldn’t do it unless they were going to get married. Her little moment with Danny at the end of the episode, however long we’ve been waiting for it, also felt forced, and too easily avoided by Mindy’s confirmation that she and Casey were back together. This show would do better to dwell on its funnier little moments, like Mindy practicing Skyping with Casey. Chloe Sevigny’s Christina is proving to be entirely uninteresting, and it would be good if she could get some personality akin to the admittedly excitable if not fully realistic person that is Casey, whose career as a minister doesn’t quite jive with the way he acts when he’s with Mindy, especially in their more intimate moments. I want to like this show as it goes into its second season, but I’m still not feeling convinced that it has a strong sense of where it’s going. I would be gratified to see that problem resolved at least somewhat when season two premieres.

Season grade: B-
Season MVP: Mindy Kaling