Posted on 06/06/2019 6:14:26 AM PDT by C19fan
About ten minutes into Mindy Kaling’s “hilarious” comedy Late Night, after about the twelfth pudding-soft joke, I began to have flashbacks. Ah, I thought, so this is why I stopped watching network sitcoms. Cute contrivances, gags beaten to death, weak one-liners, thin characters. I laugh more in any five minutes of Catastrophe or Veep than I did in this entire movie.
Kaling spent several years making one of those network sitcoms I’m not sure anybody watched, The Mindy Project, and has brought that housebroken, room-temperature, network-TV spirit to her script for Late Night. Am I meant to grade this movie on a curve because it’s made by women of color (the director is Nisha Ganatra) and it contains lots of you-go-girl moments? I decline to do so. I don’t think being a woman of color constitutes such a handicap that we should cheer anyone so hobbled who manages to crawl across the finish line. Hollywood, it’s your job to wow us, not our job as viewers to “be supportive.” We’re your customers not your parents.
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Woman of color? I thought she was Indian.
She played an excellent part on “The Office”, but I never understood how or why she’s remained so high profile since then.
Wow.
That movie sounds really, really AWFUL.
Hollywood is truly full of talentless, leftist hacks who only exist to green-light projects by OTHER talentless, leftist hacks, who vie with one another to see who can best preach the liberal gospel of gloom ‘n’ doom, diversity, baby murdering and perversion.
No wonder I watch foreign films.
There is no mass media product more vapid than a network sitcom. It is to entertainment what chewing gum is to nutrition.
In her sitcom she played a wise-cracking gynecologist.
You can just imagine where that plotline led.
Asian Indians are actually rather conservative about such things. They were somewhere between shocked and horrified that one of their own was responsible.
She’s Indian so unique on tv 15 years ago. Fat in an age of no fat shaming. Trendy to be fat. Does have wit and sense of humor
Too bad, because I really like Emma Thompson....
Even though she’s a barking liberal moonbat who takes a private jet 9000 miles to join a climate change protest...
WOC or POC simply means anyone who isn't an evil, inferior, racist white.
The trailer for this movie almost put me to sleep
Yeah, since when are white Americans responsible for tge oppression of Indians?
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