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91Everything about The Mindy Project is so very Kaling and happily spot-on, starting with the strength of the jokes and dialogue.
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90The confident, acerbic new sitcom The Mindy Project is easily the best freshman comedy of the season.
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90Mindy is not just soulful and amusing. It takes a genre full of clichés, adds something fresh and spins it into gold.
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88The good news is that Kaling and her writers have crafted a character who is competent at her job, not a goofball in scrubs. And they've offset the show's dreamy sweetness with plenty of snarky bite.
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83Overall, The Mindy Project is a comedy that arrives knowing what it wants to be and what kinds of stories and jokes it wants to tell.
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83The pilot is promising, with sharp dialogue, a solid supporting cast, and Kaling's appealing unapologetic protagonist. [28 Sep 2012, p.64]
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80Kaling makes for an unconventional sitcom heroine, to put it mildly.
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80Like The Office, The Mindy Project trades deftly on the humor of excruciating awkwardness.
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80So far, Kaling's is pitch-perfect.
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80I like this a lot.
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75Kaling is happy to make fun of herself to get a laugh, and her most painful scenes are some of the most amusing in The Mindy Project, which is far from perfect but still one of the top prospects among new fall comedies.
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75Kaling has lined up enough very funny actors to get this Project the kind of respect that Dr. Mindy never seems to get.
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75The Mindy Project mostly lives up to the hype.
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75Two things are clear from the Mindy pilot: First, that the writers need to do some work to make the secondary characters less of a cliche, and, second, that Kaling has the stuff to go the distance.
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75This ranks among the best new comedies of the season.
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70In all, it's a polished pilot, but one that will have to ground its characters better to work as a series.
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70The show's antic energy and aggressively kooky heroine may not hit everyone's sweet spot, but the pilot is a brisk, confident piece of work, made by people with a clear vision.
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70Despite a few flaws, The Mindy Project could evolve into an interesting hybrid, an anti-romantic-comedy romantic comedy.
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70The pilot of The Mindy Project isn't quite as funny as Ms. Kaling is at her best, but it has some amusing moments and a lot of promise.
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70There are enough winning moments here to come back for an encore.
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70Tuesday's pilot is not as consistently funny as one might hope and Mindy's flightiness could turn off some viewers, but she and the show are amusing enough to warrant watching.
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70If, like most sitcoms, Mindy still is in a growth phase, it's clear the writing and acting are there to be developed.
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67Kaling's good (and always is), but the pilot is just not all that funny.
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63A sitcom that veers uncomfortably between charmingly cute and cloyingly sarcastic. [1 Oct 2012, p.38]
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60Even by the notoriously uneven standards of sitcoms, The Mindy Project takes precipitous swings from fresh and clever insights to the most predictable "Oh, girl, don't go there" setups.
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58Despite their [Mindy Kaling and B.J. Novak's] experience, the show plays like a blind date gone bad.
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58The Mindy Project is a minor disappointment in light of all the accomplished guest stars populating its opening half-hour.
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50If you've resisted Kaling's charms up to now, nothing that happens tonight is likely to change your mind.
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50It just needs sharper writing, and the supporting cast needs to be developed. While Kaling and Messina are charming and work well together, the rest of the show needs to catch up.
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50There's a weird stew of ideas about expectations, desire and anger roiling around in Mindy, but as they're explored here, those ideas don't cohere into a show that's either funny or cogent.
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38The Mindy Project is far more interested in the worn-out comic agenda of a smart, independent woman hamstrung by her obsession with finding commitment with a man than it is in self-excoriation or the unique proclivities of a chosen community.
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10Think Gray's Anatomy with unpretty people; then think of something else to watch.