Tag: Mindy Kaling
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Warner Bros. Uses Strike to Suspend JJ Abrams’ Massive Deal
As the Writers’ Guild of America enters its fourth month of strike, the long-term effects of the movement start coming and studios’ strategies to make writers desperate to accept any deal become even more intense. This time, high-profile writers have been targeted by Warner Bros. Television Group – overall deals with writers-turned-producers like J.J. Abrams…
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‘The Office’ Episode That Was Pulled From Syndication
The American version of The Office was a decently successful hit during its nine-season run on NBC. It wasn’t until it hit syndication, however, and especially its long tenure on Netflix, that the series became a timeless pop culture classic. A decade after it came to an end, we still talk about outrageous episodes and…
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The Best Episodes of ‘The Office’: ‘Booze Cruise,’ ‘Frame Toby,’ ‘The Secret,’ and More
It’s hard to believe it took network TV audiences more than a full season to pick up on the burning brilliance of Greg Daniels’ “The Office.”On March 25, 2005, the pilot episode of a mockumentary series about a paper company in Scranton, Pennsylvania debuted to just over 11 million viewers in the United States. The…
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‘Never Have I Ever’s Finale Was Too Predictable
Editor’s note: The below contains spoilers for the series finale of Never Have I Ever.Let’s face it: we all knew Lang Fisher and Mindy Kaling’s Never Have I Ever was going to have a happy ending. No fan of the Netflix hit teen series was expecting it to wrap up its final season on a…
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Netflix’s ‘Never Have I Ever’ Had a Perfect Ending – and That’s Not All
There aren’t a whole lot of comparisons between Netflix’s teen rom-com “Never Have I Ever” and the HBO drama “Succession”, but the disparate series wrapped their fourth and final seasons within weeks of each other, both sticking the landing.Finishing a TV show is an inherently gargantuan/intimidating/daunting task, and very few achieve the holy grail of…
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‘Never Have I Ever’ Season 4 Review: Devi Is Messy, Funny, Emotional And Triumphant In The Final Season Of The Netflix Series
There has never been a TV character like Devi Vishwakumar. Lang Fisher and Mindy Kaling’s snappy and sweet teen comedy “Never Have I Ever” has long since felt like an example of the power of highly specific points of view in storytelling, and in its fourth and final season, its complex protagonist has only grown…