Single Women And The Sitcom: “Mindy”
Elaine Blair writes: ‘You have an idea of how your life will turn out,†muses Mindy Lahiri, introducing herself in the pilot episode of Fox’s new sitcom “The Mindy Project” which debuted in September [and which you’d think that by now Brendan Lemon would have watched]. “When I was a kid, all I did was watch romantic comedies in our living room while I did my homework,†she tells us in voice-over as we see clips of her at various ages watching videos of “When Harry Met Sally,” “Sleepless in Seattle,” and “Four Weddings and Funeral.” She kept watching romantic comedies obsessively through college, and while she managed to finish medical school and become an OB/GYN, her love life has not turned out to be like the movies — she was recently dumped by a long-time boyfriend, and just last night humiliated herself at his wedding with a vengeful, drunken toast in which she suggested that his Serbian bride was a war criminal.’
