The Mindy Project: C is for Coward
September 23, 2015 11:31 AM - Season 4, Episode 2 - Subscribe
Danny and Mindy find themselves embroiled in an argument over how their baby should be born, while Jeremy hunts for coworkers to attend a dinner with his girlfriend to prove he has friends. Also, Paleo-Birth.
A lot of the Mindy and Danny relationship involves Danny changing his mind, but obviously, he has to have the wrong mindset to create the conflict for any particular mind set. For as much as he was freaked out about the role of Mindy as the mother, it felt extremely misplaced as almost every paranoia he has is based around a failed father figure and the institution of marriage. At best one might say he has a distorted opinion of motherhood from his own mother (WE LOVE YOU RHEA), but it definitely resulted in a peculiar conflicting stance for him to hold in this episode.
Morgan. Kudos for trying to pitch to the young women watching Mindy go into labor on the subway. But then, it was kind of weird how he made an off hand remark about messing with Mindy's birth control and additionally, confirming that Leo isn't his kid. I get it and a lot of Morgan's personality is about him overstepping boundaries, but it was weird in this instance.
posted by Atreides at 2:54 PM on September 23, 2015
Morgan. Kudos for trying to pitch to the young women watching Mindy go into labor on the subway. But then, it was kind of weird how he made an off hand remark about messing with Mindy's birth control and additionally, confirming that Leo isn't his kid. I get it and a lot of Morgan's personality is about him overstepping boundaries, but it was weird in this instance.
posted by Atreides at 2:54 PM on September 23, 2015
I thought it was very Mindy-esque of Danny to try and trick Mindy into doing things his way. I can see how it might read a little creepy, but I chose to view it as "ahh they actually are a perfect match."
Hard to see how this season can keep up momentum (and will it just be The Baby Show now?) but I laughed a lot watching this episode and there were plenty of quotable lines. "Booze? Sex? You're using all my favorite things against me!" and "I can't just slap you! You have to say something I find personally detestable." "Beyonce is actually 45! [slap]... That did nothing, AND I betrayed Beyonce."
posted by Zephyrial at 3:57 PM on September 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
Hard to see how this season can keep up momentum (and will it just be The Baby Show now?) but I laughed a lot watching this episode and there were plenty of quotable lines. "Booze? Sex? You're using all my favorite things against me!" and "I can't just slap you! You have to say something I find personally detestable." "Beyonce is actually 45! [slap]... That did nothing, AND I betrayed Beyonce."
posted by Zephyrial at 3:57 PM on September 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
I can see how it might read a little creepy, but I chose to view it as "ahh they actually are a perfect match."
As an isolated incident, I think that my reading would be a lot closer to yours. As a part of the pattern where Danny tries to control Mindy's diet, snoops through her diary, etc., I'm inclined to read it less charitably.
posted by Parasite Unseen at 5:13 PM on September 23, 2015
As an isolated incident, I think that my reading would be a lot closer to yours. As a part of the pattern where Danny tries to control Mindy's diet, snoops through her diary, etc., I'm inclined to read it less charitably.
posted by Parasite Unseen at 5:13 PM on September 23, 2015
Except that Mindy would do that and more. The show operates in a skewed moral universe, much closer to Seinfeld than say New Girl, so Danny is comparatively less sketchy than Mindy.
I'm just grateful that they dealt with the pregnancy and delivery fast because having two apparently excellent and competent obgyns have 101 sitcom tropes about pregnancy was dumb. The punchlines came almost fast enough to cover the glaring plot holes there, but I think they were smart to rush through it.
Now- where the hell is the nanny? Because Mindy is in New York, she should have locked that down earlier.
posted by dorothyisunderwood at 5:29 PM on September 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
I'm just grateful that they dealt with the pregnancy and delivery fast because having two apparently excellent and competent obgyns have 101 sitcom tropes about pregnancy was dumb. The punchlines came almost fast enough to cover the glaring plot holes there, but I think they were smart to rush through it.
Now- where the hell is the nanny? Because Mindy is in New York, she should have locked that down earlier.
posted by dorothyisunderwood at 5:29 PM on September 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
Argh, Danny. I understand this is a skewed world, but it really pisses me off to hear a man who we are supposed to find adorable (and I do, except for shit like this) mocking a woman "afraid of a little pain" that is something he will NEVER have to experience. What the hell kind of OBGYN is he? I guess you get desensitized to it if it's your job, but still. He comes from an incredibly privileged position.
Other than that (and I'm again hoping they stop going to the "Danny craps on Mindy, makes big gesture" well every episode), I enjoyed this a great deal. Paleobirth is just the right amount of mockery, and the commercial didn't tip over too far into absurdity, so it was good satire. "I've Been Working On The Railroad"! "Later, Baby" (I also liked Morgan handing out the cards to the disgusted young women on the train). I'm a sucker for the callback to Danny running somewhere (and Morgan's irritated "did you stop for a slice?"
Morgan's comment about messing with Mindy's birth control, while odd, at least does answer the question "how do two OBGYNs get accidentally pregnant?" so I'm okay with it, because it makes Mindy and Danny look less ridiculous and we already know Morgan is ridiculous.
I'm happy that we didn't see the scene where Jeremy's girlfriend meets his improv actor "friends," because imagining it is less embarrassing and all the joke we needed. I still want him to be closer to the actual plot, though "I have a brother named Frank...he would lead me into the garden, where the other boys would be waiting with sticks" was a nice touch. I think Jeremy needs to meet Wesley Wyndam-Pryce and start a support group.
Leo!
"We will update you on the status of the viral video once we have more details."
posted by ilana at 2:45 PM on September 28, 2015 [1 favorite]
Other than that (and I'm again hoping they stop going to the "Danny craps on Mindy, makes big gesture" well every episode), I enjoyed this a great deal. Paleobirth is just the right amount of mockery, and the commercial didn't tip over too far into absurdity, so it was good satire. "I've Been Working On The Railroad"! "Later, Baby" (I also liked Morgan handing out the cards to the disgusted young women on the train). I'm a sucker for the callback to Danny running somewhere (and Morgan's irritated "did you stop for a slice?"
Morgan's comment about messing with Mindy's birth control, while odd, at least does answer the question "how do two OBGYNs get accidentally pregnant?" so I'm okay with it, because it makes Mindy and Danny look less ridiculous and we already know Morgan is ridiculous.
I'm happy that we didn't see the scene where Jeremy's girlfriend meets his improv actor "friends," because imagining it is less embarrassing and all the joke we needed. I still want him to be closer to the actual plot, though "I have a brother named Frank...he would lead me into the garden, where the other boys would be waiting with sticks" was a nice touch. I think Jeremy needs to meet Wesley Wyndam-Pryce and start a support group.
Leo!
"We will update you on the status of the viral video once we have more details."
posted by ilana at 2:45 PM on September 28, 2015 [1 favorite]
Very important question: am I going to be able to watch this on free hulu?
posted by phunniemee at 4:21 PM on October 2, 2015
posted by phunniemee at 4:21 PM on October 2, 2015
I'm just grateful that they dealt with the pregnancy and delivery fast because having two apparently excellent and competent obgyns have 101 sitcom tropes about pregnancy was dumb. The punchlines came almost fast enough to cover the glaring plot holes there, but I think they were smart to rush through it
I found this so annoying and baffling! I understand the skewed universe business, but there was a lot of ???? in this episode for me.
posted by purpleclover at 3:11 PM on November 8, 2015
I found this so annoying and baffling! I understand the skewed universe business, but there was a lot of ???? in this episode for me.
posted by purpleclover at 3:11 PM on November 8, 2015
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That baby is cute as fuck, tho.
posted by Parasite Unseen at 12:08 PM on September 23, 2015