Review: Mindy Kaling's 'Not Suitable for Work' Fails to Impress
A review criticizes Mindy Kaling's new show 'Not Suitable for Work,' stating it attempts to be the next 'Friends' but utterly fails, delivering a 'schmaltzy pudding' rather than an instant classic about 20-somethings navigating life in Manhattan.
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Not Suitable for Work review – Mindy Kaling tries to make the new Friends … and utterly fails
It takes a brave person to write about a gang of 20-somethings navigating life and love in neighbouring Manhattan apartments. Sadly this is not an instant classic – it’s a slice of schmaltzy pudding flopping on to a plate More than three decades after Friends launched, it is still a brave writer who puts out a show about a gaggle of twentysomethings learning to navigate life and love in a brace of unfeasibly palatial apartments in Manhattan. Brave or, perhaps, foolish. The new sitcom from Min...
By Lucy Mangan
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Mindy Kaling is moving through the stages of life. With Netflix’s “Never Have I Ever,” the comedy mogul took on high school; with HBO Max’s “The Sex Lives of College Girls,” she (literally) graduated to college. Hulu’s “Not Suitable for Work” — Kaling’s first show with sole creator credit since “The Mindy Project,” showrun by […]
By Alisoncolleherman
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Jay Ellis co-stars in the series about five 20something neighbors in New York's Murray Hill neighborhood navigating their careers, friendships and love lives.
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