‘The Mindy Project’: Subverting genres — bostonglobe.com

I’ve fallen kind of in love with “The Mindy Project,” and I’ve fallen kind of in love with the character Mindy Lahiri, all of which means I’ve fallen kind of in love with Mindy Kaling. There’s something uniquely subversive about the three of them, as they giddily challenge all sorts of social and cultural expectations. Even now that “The Mindy Project” has its heroine knocked up — usually the sitcom equivalent of running on fumes — I have no fear that the show will manage to make pregnancy and a baby funny. No one is going to do mommy humor like Mindy, beginning with the twist that, despite both she and her boyfriend Danny being OB/GYNs, she accidentally got pregnant. That’s a risky choice for a network sitcom, by the way, especially since the characters are meant to be smart and responsible. But “The Mindy Project” refuses to hold up Mindy and Danny as any kind of unswerving role models.

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