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Season 01
Episode 24
Take Me With You

The Mindy Project Recap: The Mindy Ultimatum

To Haiti, or not to Haiti?

Season 01

S.01
Ep.23
'Frat Party'

The Mindy Project Recap: Partying Is Such Sweet Sorrow

Tear all of the stripper poles down.

S.01
Ep.22
'Triathlon'

The Mindy Project Recap: Biblical Proportions

Danny’s mythical ex, Christina, has arrived, and she is Chloë Sevigny.

S.01
Ep.21
'Santa Fe'

The Mindy Project Recap: So This Is Rehab These Days

Minister Casey thought better of his holier-than-thou attitude toward Mindy, and now they are dating. Also, Josh is a coke addict.

S.01
Ep.20
'Pretty Man'

The Mindy Project Recap: Piano Man

Mindy dates a male prostitute, which is not at all like Pretty Woman.

S.01
Ep.19
'My Cool Christian Boyfriend'

The Mindy Project Recap: Getting Right With God

Praise the Lord, we get two episodes of Mindy this week, and the first was definitely ascendant.

S.01
Ep.18
'Danny's Friend'

The Mindy Project Recap: Danny’s Boy

Ellie Kemper returned on last night's episode and the gang headed to Staten Island.

S.01
Ep.17
'Mindy’s Birthday'

The Mindy Project Recap: Girl, Interrupted

Mindy's birthday was celebrated in last night's out of sequence episode.

S.01
Ep.16
'The One That Got Away'

The Mindy Project Recap: Star-Crossed Lovers

The Mindy Project’s first-season progress can be divided into Before B.J. Novak’s Magical Guest-Starring Stint and After.

S.01
Ep.15
'Mindy's Minute'

The Mindy Project Recap: One Minute to Save the World

You have to give this show credit for continuously making women’s health a plot point.

S.01
Ep.14
'Harry & Mindy'

The Mindy Project Recap: Boom. Fireworks.

Like the pilot episode, almost every scene was a perfectly crafted twist on rom-com tropes.

S.01
Ep.13
'Harry & Sally'

The Mindy Project Recap: Latin Lovers

This episode brought us back to the territory that served Mindy so well early on: poking fun at romantic comedies.

S.01
Ep.12
'Hooking Up Is Hard'

The Mindy Project Recap: Sex and Candy

Why does this show get more typical and mainstream as it goes along?

S.01
Ep.11
'Bunk Bed'

The Mindy Project Recap: Script Doctoring

We could have done without that letter.

S.01
Ep.10
'Mindy's Brother'

The Mindy Project Recap: Brother’s Keeper

Last month's standout Christmas episode was a tough act to follow.

S.01
Ep.09
'Josh and Mindy's Christmas Party'

The Mindy Project Recap: Holiday Heartbreak

Turns out Mindy's not the woman, she's the other woman.

S.01
Ep.08
'Two To One'

The Mindy Project Recap: Midwives With Attitude

We're starting to not care about all these other people that are not Mindy.

S.01
Ep.07
'Teen Patient'

The Mindy Project Recap: Herpes Is Forever

Nothing warms our heart like a great birth control lecture, and Mindy gave one for the ages this week.

S.01
Ep.06
'Thanksgiving'

The Mindy Project Recap: Thanks for the Shamelessness

Mindy's total lack of shame is something to behold.

S.01
Ep.04
'Halloween'

The Mindy Project Recap: Nonplussed or Linus

Jeremy and Danny have been to hell, and they spell it DMV. Mindy learns to believe in the Great Pumpkin.

S.01
Ep.03
'In the Club'

The Mindy Project Recap: Meatpacking Heat

Red wine with ice.

S.01
Ep.02
'Hiring and Firing'

The Mindy Project Recap: Blood and Guts

One spends months, years even, on a pilot script, but the second episode shows us whether the first effort was a fluke.

S.01
Ep.01
'Pilot'

The Mindy Project Recap: Not Who She’s Going to Be

Pilots are notoriously difficult to pull off, but Mindy lands it.

Schedule

Tuesdays, 9:30 p.m.
Fox

Cast

Mindy Kaling:
‘Dr. Mindy Lahiri’
Chris Messina:
‘Dr. Danny Castellano’
Ed Weeks:
‘Dr. Jeremy Reed’
Anna Camp:
‘Gwen Grandy’
Ike Barinholtz:
‘Morgan Tookers’

Producers

Mindy Kaling, B.J. Novak, Michael Spiller, Charles McDougall

Debut

September 25, 2012

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4/30/13 at 10:30 AM

Anders Holm on Romancing Mindy Kaling

"I’m either shirtless or naked for the rest of the Mindy episodes."

4/9/13 at 4:30 PM

Mindy Project’s Ed Weeks Channels Bradley Cooper

"I would call myself cocky."

3/28/13 at 3:15 PM

See Ike Barinholtz As Game of Thrones’ Brienne

Sadly, it bombed at Adam Levine's costume party.

3/20/13 at 4:00 PM

Mindy Kaling on the Future of Mindy and Danny

"If there was a physical thing, it wouldn't come from ‘I love you so much.'"

3/19/13 at 4:30 PM

Vulture Takes a Ride With Mindy’s Ike Barinholtz

For Halloween last year, he dressed up as Game of Thrones' lady knight Brienne.

3/9/13 at 2:50 PM

Mindy Kaling Writing New Book

The followup to Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? is due out in "like a year and a half."

3/5/13 at 10:00 AM

The Mindy Project Casts Chloë Sevigny

As Chris Messina's ex-wife.

3/4/13 at 3:04 PM

Fox Renews Tuesday Comedies and The Following

Raising Hope, New Girl, and The Mindy Project are all coming back.

Spotlight

9/25/12

The Mindy Project Is a Thoughtful Riff on Rom-Com Clichés

The long-awaited show from the former Office writer-star premieres tonight.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

9/9/12

The New New Girl

Mindy Kaling promotes herself out of The Office and into The Mindy Project.

By Denise Martin

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