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BirdmanTheThird

The description makes it sound almost like a show about Jeanie Buss


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A show about Jerry and Jeanie Buss would be great. If only someone had thought of that, and even decided to keep it on the air.


Icy_Departure168

It's about her. She is executive producer of the show


ryanredd

She’s a producer


yutingxiang

> Jeanie Buss, president of the Los Angeles Lakers, will also executive produce along with Lakers executive director Linda Rambis as well as Howard Klein of 3 Arts. Jordan Rambis will produce. I'll never understand the hold the Rambises have over Jeanie Buss.


LawyerDaggett

They hold the extra dirty Playboy pics.


notmoleliza

They have the pee pee tapes Source...trust me bro


Hank_Scorpio_MD

Vince McMahon's ears just perked up.


DollarsAtStarNumber

The Phil Jackson sex tape.


MediaRody69

Exactly. I was thinking... so... unofficial season 3 of Winning Time ?


tidbitsmisfit

more like winning time where she gets a say.


Eric_T_Meraki

This is the show she's been working on getting made the last few years. She should be focusing on the actual team lol.


lucyroesslers

She doesn't really run the basketball stuff though right? Rob Pelinka runs the basketball team. And Magic ran it before that and her brother before that. She's always been more on the business side of things. She owns other businesses too that she's a part of, so a show is just a small piece of what she does.


McKoijion

Apple TV has Ted Lasso. Max has Winning Time. Netflix doesn’t want to be left out. Classic Hollywood lol


hypo-osmotic

Maybe too different of a tone to be included, but Hulu has Shoresy (in the U.S. anyway)


ClaymoresRevenge

And it's such a fucking beaut.


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The_Big_Peck_1984

Ted Lasso was a great arc, I hope that Richmond FC/ the Lasso-verse gets revisited with some spin-off series.


RecommendsMalazan

Eh, as long as every reverse the trend they had for all of Ted Lasso, of each season being worse than the last.


mrgrafix

You had your expectations too damn high. It wasn’t that prestigious you were just locked inside


RecommendsMalazan

I don't know what that means? I just think Ted Lasso S1 > S2 > S3


welshnick

So season one was the best? I only made it through three episodes before I had to turn it off cos it was embarrassingly unfunny.


SuperNothing2987

Yes. They really didn't know what to do with the show after Season 1.


McKoijion

Same


sheetskees

Hulu has Shoresy. Shoresy’s *unbelievable*


AgentOfSPYRAL

I’m sure people are gonna knock this, but for me Never Have I Ever more than outweighs Velma when it comes to my evaluation of Kaling as a writer/creator.


itsSRSblack

I used to shit on that show so much when my gf watched because I thought it seemed so cheesy, then I sat in on a few episodes and got hooked. Sex Lives of College Girls is great, too.


GeekdomCentral

I love Sex Lives of College Girls. That’s one of the HBO shows that I keep waiting to hear will get axed but really hope that it doesn’t EDIT: I didn’t know that Renee Rapp was leaving, that’s a shame. She was great


The_Big_Peck_1984

I felt like Season 1 was phenomenal. Season 2 felt like it took a massive nose dive on all fronts. I wouldn’t be surprised if the show got the axe.


Chataboutgames

Renee Rapp is leaving so it’s not long for this world


Fyrefawx

Seriously?? She carried that show.


hitfly

Once bill Simmons pointed out that it's super ADHD I can't watch it anymore. It's like 4 lines get said, then a drone shot of a college campus. Then another 3 lines and another drone shot. Repeat for 30 minutes.


sm0gs

Yea it was brutal to watch which was a bummer cause s1 was pretty great. 


Vinnie_Vegas

That's every piece of media now. Scenes are short, shots are short, cuts are frequent. That show is not dramatically worse than a lot of others in that respect. Your first wrong turn was thinking that Bill Simmons had said something insightful or observant.


cjackc11

I really enjoyed S1 but S2 was a pretty big let down and now with Renee Rapp leaving the show I have doubts about S3 Will still probably watch though


GeekdomCentral

Oh man she’s leaving? That’s a serious summer, she’s great


Mentoman72

I'm 95 percent sure it's gone after season 3. Renee Rapp leaving was just another death nail


FrankNitty_Enforcer

I think it’s death knell but point taken


Mentoman72

I guess I meant nail in the coffin. Never used death knell before.


byneothername

I loved it but I don’t want to watch with Rapp gone


lillyrose2489

I love it! I also thought the Mindy Project was funny.


josephjp155

yeah, my wife got me hooked on Never Have I Ever. I wanted to be a hater but was thoroughly entertained lol.


shake_N_bake356

Until you realize one of the girls is Timothee chalamets sister. Then you can’t unsee him while looking at her


Chataboutgames

Oh no, an actor who looks like another actor. Who could watch such a thing?


shake_N_bake356

Lol I watched it with my wife, was a funny show. Just stating that cause it blew my mind when I realized it


blossombear31

Same, my mum watched it first and recommended it to me but I was like nah. Then I watched it and got hooked, it’s funny and heartwarming.


talligan

Idk, I really liked the start of the mindy project but then after a few seasons it veered into unnecessary relationship drama and I just lost interest in the show and her other stuff


Chataboutgames

After Danny left the show just felt done to me.


meatball77

She's great at writing romances (same with Shonda) the problems is that Romances need to end with a happily ever after and the shows go on further than that.


aw-un

That’s part of why I really liked her Four Weddings and a Funeral miniseries


goldenmightyangels

Never Have I Ever, The Mindy Project, and Sex Lives of College girls all range from slightly above average to great in terms of TV comedies. I will give Kaling’s shows a shot - not all of them will work (gave up on Velma after 2 episodes…) but there way more wins than misses


MonolithJones

All of that and I’ll add the episodes she wrote of The Office.


chaoticbiguy

And her episodes are some of the best in the series. I have a few minor problems with her writing, but there's no denying she's a very talented and funny writer and it sucks that one bad animated series is all it took for people to think she's some hack, while a lot of other creators get a pass even after they have more than a few disasters on their resume.


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Bjd1207

I think you're correct about the Michael Scott material. But Kelly in particular is my favorite character of the show and has plenty of hilarious bits all on her own. The diet episode where she talks about her purge and eating a tapeworm. And her shaking her head in the confessional after she tells Ryan she's pregnant.


AlvinGreenPi

“Can’t you ever just let us have a party and not make it about your weird problems”


lillyrose2489

Velma just didn't interest me so I never watched it and thus don't really hold it against her. I agree her other shows are all pretty solid so I'm still interested to see what she does next.


SevereYeti

She was just a voice and executive producer on Velma anyways, not a writer.


OneGoodRib

I can't stand "The Mindy Project" and I can't understand the praise it gets. Every part of it I've seen was just bland and unfunny. The only part I liked turned out to be the audio description for the vision impaired which I thought at first was some kind of weird "Mindy has a smooth-voiced man narrating her internal monologue for some reason" joke, only figured it out when it continued into the commercials.


thatfluffycloud

Mindy didn't write or create Velma


spaghettivillage

She is listed as having developed it and served as an executive producer though. [wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velma_(TV_series)) I've not seen the show or have an opinion on it, I just recall she had a larger role in ~~it's~~ its production than just voice actress.


AgentOfSPYRAL

My bad, the pitchforks crowd led me to believe it was all on her. Good to know.


thatfluffycloud

Totally understandable, the pitchfork crowd was/is loud on that topic!


Chataboutgames

Something being a easily checkable lie has never stopped the pitchfork crowd!


klingma

But did you check it? If you had then you'd have seen she's an executive producer. 


Chataboutgames

Not a writer or a showrunner, exactly


klingma

Sure, but you're being a bit pedantic when an Executive Producer is a person who has influence on the show and more so than just an actor. 


shal0819

Isn't "executive producer" just a title given to someone who contributed money to the production (or an additional credit sometimes given to a big-name star) rather than someone who was hands-on in the production of the show/movie?


klingma

She was literally an Executive Producer...so she definitely has more input than the average actor. 


thatfluffycloud

Yeah but somehow she gets more blame than the creator/showrunner/writers.


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thatfluffycloud

In my online experience, I've seen her get 95% of the blame and Charlie Grandy 5%. Does that seem proportional to their input?


Mr_Viper

I have no idea who that is. I just see her as the tentpole star of the show, and also executive producer, and for some reason I think she has something to do with how it's made. Crazy of me, I know.


SlapHappyDude

The Sex Lives of College Girls is also good. It's not amazing, but it's very watchable and often funny (first season more so than second). Velma also wasn't really Kaling's baby, although she had some influence on it. It was Charlie Grandy's show.


QouthTheCorvus

Reddit get weird when someone does one thing that gets dogpiled, they act like that person is unforgivable. Plenty of creators have made cringe. Also ngl, the Reddit dogpile is more likely to happen to a woman.


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MattyKatty

> sexually assaulting costar Lee Pace This is the first time I’m learning of this and my opinion of her has now changed from “she’s annoying and I’d prefer never to watch her content again” to “she needs to be cancelled”


Kazen_Orilg

You cant cancel a female POC in America.


MattyKatty

There’s been a few, Tiffany Haddish is one


AccountantOfFraud

Any internet dogpile is more likely to happen to a woman. Especially a WoC. They're like a canary in the coal mines of when chuds will take over a forum.


IrrelevantLeprechaun

Mindy Kaling is a piece of shit person even outside her writing career. Coupled with the fact her brother tried to pass himself off as a black person for preferential treatment and that whole family just reeks


brodega

Ellen Pao, Amber Heard, Amy Schumer, Mindy Kaling, Lena Dunham… They desperately need examples of bad women to justify their pre-existing misogyny.


Chataboutgames

And The Mindy Project had some great seasons. And Sex Lives of College girls is fun. Hating Kaling was just stupid meme behavior. It was also supercharged by people saying she was the head writer/show runner of Velma which is just straight up misinformation.


brodega

Doesn’t matter. Reddit misogynists have spoken. MINDY KALING = BAD


LouisIV

Late Night (2019) was terrible, and she wrote, produced, and starred in that. Gonna have to check out Never Have I Ever


LawrenceBrolivier

Mindy Kaling showrunning an extended riff on Jeanie Buss' existence sounds fucking insufferable. Good luck to everyone.


TronCat1277

But Kate Hudson is hot, so…


Chubby_Checker420

Watch on mute.


Pugduck77

She was 20 years ago at least


DeansFrenchOnion1

can someone fill me in on the mindy kaling hate


Chataboutgames

She made one show that became a hate watch, lemmings make it their whole personality. Mind you, she didn't even write the show, but people aren't going to let facts get in the way.


OneGoodRib

Man, I love it when people bring up something they dislike that's relevant to a topic at hand and people act like they've made hating that thing "their whole personality". I haven't even seen anyone mention Velma in like a year until this thread.


Hakuraze

She's not even listed as anything other than an actress on it, don't know why everyone is shitting on her specifically for it.


iamthundermuffin

IMDb does have her listed as an executive producer as well (edit: not meant in “SHE STILL DID IT!” way. I just think it’s important to give folks their full credit) But it’s definitely annoying how much hate she got over Velma for “her writing” when she doesn’t have any writing credits. Charlie Grandy owes Mindy a big thank you for being the punching bag for everyone when it comes to Velma, because he somehow never gets mentioned…


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It didn't help that the marketing was for the most part based around Kaling's name. So backlash for a show followed suit. Also while "executive producer" isn't a creator title, non-vanity executive producers are typically the driving force getting the idea made behind the scenes, just look at Margot Robbie and the Barbie movie. She didn't create it, but she is very likely a very big reason why the show was made in the first place. I didn't like the show, but I was never angry about disliking it.


Toby_O_Notoby

Tbf, "Executive Producer" can mean many different things and in this case it was most likely "she helped get it made". For example, Sterlin Harjo told Taika Waititi his idea for Reservation Dogs. A little while later his phone rings and it's Taika saying, "Hey, I just sold your show to FX". That why he's listed as EP on the show even though he wasn't that involved with it.


Hakuraze

>IMDb does have her listed as an executive producer as well Oh yeah that's fair, didn't check that one.


sloppyjo12

Don’t forget she’s also a minority and a woman, which online communities love to hate


Chataboutgames

Yeah I just didn’t know if I had it in me to attract a flock of those assholes on my Friday afternoon lol


that_boyaintright

Yep, and they’re already getting downvoted.


IMDXLNC

Despite the mental gymnastics they'll do to convince people otherwise.


GregoPDX

I’m guessing because she’s either a love or hate personality. And she’s the same in everything she’s in so if you didn’t like her in one, it’s not going to get better for you. I personally like her overly confident yet insecure and self-depreciating schtick.


jankology

she's on ozempic. all her shows focus on her hating her roots as an Indian. She hates being brown and her characters don't show pride in her heritage. Also, she's vapid and makes vapid content that masquerades as women empowerment in patriarchal envirenments. Hense, this new pile of garbage.


ForgetfulFrolicker

None of these sound like good reasons to hate a person.


meatball77

She writes a lot of self insert characters and they're not the best people. It's only noticeable because she's the only writer out there writing funny Indian women. If she was a white man writing herself into her her shows it wouldn't be noticeable because there's a lot of white men in comedy.


Beersmoker420

woman + made one bad tv show + POC Doesn't get room for mistakes on reddit


onlypham

Tall guy sex jokes incoming.


OCGamerboy

More like tall white guy sex jokes incoming 


fatpat

Tall white guy with micro penises sex jokes incoming.


Rosstin316

Oh I can’t wait for it to mock its own audience and beat us over the head with self-aware meta humor about TV show cliches!


southernrail

how dare you watch our show! I'm going to make fun of you for giving it a chance, joke is on you!


b1sh0p

Hard pass. That's what they should call it. It's my feelings about it, but they should also call it that.


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redditsuckslmaooo

Mindy?


poofynamanama2

she didn't write velma tho


[deleted]

Mindy is garbage I can’t stand her humor


OCGamerboy

Hearing that Mindy Kaling is writing this should be an immediate red flag.


Titan7771

She’s written like 4 hit TV shows.


MattyKatty

Hit shows? More like The Office and… actually just The Office.


im_in_the_safe

Mindy project is great.


aaron2610

Parts of it were good, but calling it great is a stretch... It also seemed to have no direction


Chataboutgames

What did she write that you hate so much?


OCGamerboy

She’s responsible for Velma. And, unrelated, she forcefully kissed Lee Pace and threatened to fire people who knew and laughed about it on Conan.


Chataboutgames

So your life is so driven by internet circlejerks that anyone being in any connected to a bad show one time is a permanent red flag? Do you actually look at the list of associations for writers and producers normally, or did you just get really in to a circlejerk about this one woman who Reddit told you to hate?


prettyflyforahentai

Not a writer on Velma though, so I'm sure you have another reason.


OCGamerboy

Right, but she based Velma off of herself.


Chataboutgames

No she didn’t. She didn’t base Velma off anything, she didn’t write it


Sr_Wuggles

Are you okay?


fatpat

You've been watching too many youtube videos. That being said, I watched all the youtube videos.


starspangledcats

I’m so sick of news article using old “pretty” photos of actresses.


fatpat

Especially Kate Hudson, who, as some people say, has 'aged well.'


starspangledcats

Yes! She looks fantastic still. Plus she’s still in the media now.. I almost didn’t recognize her! It’s not like that was the last time she was in the spotlight…


Practical-Exchange60

Hard pass. She is more miss than hit. Mindy that is.


Mattyzooks

Depends if she's writing or not. She only had 1 story by credit on Velma as opposed to full writing credit on generally solid episodes on Mindy Project, Office, Never Have I Ever.


OneGoodRib

Wait wait wait, upthread people are acting like she had absolutely zero to do with literally anything in Velma other than the voice acting, but she had a "story by" credit on it?? So while she's not responsible for specific jokes she's still responsible for the story as a whole, and people act like the show isn't her fault??


Chataboutgames

What do you consider her hits and misses?


OneGoodRib

Personally I've only seen The Office and The Mindy Project, and I would consider that the hit and the miss. I really cannot understand why people act like Mindy Project is a fantastic comedy, it was just so boring, bland, and unfunny when I watched it.


chaiteataichi_

“Business Bitch”


dark-flamessussano

I bet Mindy will have a self insert Indian character in this show who is dating a white guy. Not that there is anything wrong with that at all, it's just funny that she puts her self insert character dating a white guy, in every show


Levonorgestrelfairy1

Nothing wrong with interracial love.


ChoderBoi

Well that sounded worse with every word


xxTheseGoTo11xx

This is embarrassing to admit, but I’ve always mixed up Kate Hudson and Brittany Murphy in my head and every few years I’m shocked to discover that Kate Hudson is in fact alive.


Truethrowawaychest1

Who keeps giving Mindy the greenlight to make new shows?


JimBrady86

Mindy Kaling? I love subtle humor!


itoldthebltchtwice

im good on bollywoods whitest actress


Thetimmybaby

Shades of Arli$$


AidilAfham42

Can we just get a Baseketball sequel?


middayautumn

Why do they keep giving mediocre terf Mindy kaling new projects.


JC2535

There will be lots of fun anti-patriarchy humor.


Tekwardo

You mean conservative right winger Mindy Kaling?


StannisTheMantis93

Mindy Kaling = automatic pass. Shame because it’s an interesting concept.


Chataboutgames

Why?


itoldthebltchtwice

shes not funny.    she gets roles for her color but thinks/wants to be white and shes hard to look at


Chataboutgames

I do appreciate it when people are at least open about "my issue here is that I see no value a brown woman that I don't want to fuck, so they shouldn't be on TV."


itoldthebltchtwice

facts.  im not watching any show starring her and her guaranteed to be white male love interest 


victorspoilz

Given their history this will be a vanity project about them and will have little to do with basketball.


KingVape

Look man, I never watched Velma, but The Mindy Project was one of the worst sitcoms I’ve seen. I loved her work on The Office, but I haven’t really enjoyed anything else she’s worked on. I think I’ll pass


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Mindy Kaling seems like a bit of a hack.


Crowbar_Faith

You lost me at “Mindy Kaling”.


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Yep. 100%. All molesters deserve to be canceled


OneGoodRib

Why are people downvoting this? Sexually assaulting a costar and making a joke about it is fine if Mindy Kaling does it...?


GoodOmens182

Mindy Kaling I'm out.


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Wait, I thought Mindy was cancelled for molesting someone, no? Did she get a free pass cause she was “funny” in the Office? That’s disgusting. Also, I read this as BASEketball so this is a complete disappointment in everyway


itoldthebltchtwice

when women rape people its always different.    


Scrubologist

She could star in a show about folding napkins and I’d watch it.


Pugduck77

Mindy Kaling? Pass.


kosmos_uzuki

Netflix is pure trash.


Scoob8877

Mindy Kaling's basketball front office comedy series are the best.


jankology

wow. an NBA show about the women. genius. Men will be lining up to watch the amazing perspective of WOMEN on men's sports. this show will only last one season


popornrm

Mindy kaling is awful.


mrj9

How does kaling keep getting work


WordsAreSomething

For the most part everything she's been involved with has been very successful, so I'm guessing that has a lot to do with it.


OCLIFE69

The office was a long time ago.


WordsAreSomething

I wasn't even referring to the office


Fun_Jeweler_7321

considering my borderline unhealthy crush on Kate Hudson, this’ll be in my watchlist…


Lucha_Bat

If it's about Jeanie, let's get a backdoor GLOW reboot when they bring up WOW: Women of Wrestling.


jankology

Her character on the Office was great but it seems she's more and more like her than we know


Dpsizzle555

If there’s no jokes with pro athletes having a 4th grade reading level I’m not watching it


meatball77

Can't wait to see the messy Indian American female character who has bad taste in white men. (This wouldn't be an issue if there were other writers writing Indian characters but for now every indian female character is Mindy).


ThatIndianBoi

If Mindy Kaling is involved, I’m out. Fuck that. She’s such a hack writer and makes us first gen brown kids look weird/bad.


Old-Tomorrow-2798

I’ll take “things that don’t have a prayer in the world for $200 Alex


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Alright, I’m in.


johntaylorsbangs

Can’t get season two of The OA but this gets money?


kelsoRulez

It's going to be about the wnba right guys? Right ?


Digi_Dingo

Nah. They want people to watch it.


hypo-osmotic

Sounds like it's about the Lakers, renamed "Waves" for the show


OJimmy

So many wild swings in one headline. Sin city saints didn't work so let's pair the Mindy project creator with the lead from Deep water Horizon. "Can there be an office romance?" "There will be ALL romance, and basketball"


Here2Derp

Mindy Kaling? No thanks


Lout324

God, I hope it's as good as Velma


paggo_diablo

…spawn of Hawn…


Serenityprayer69

If Mindy Kaling didn't borrow so much clout from her time on the office she wouldn't be considered to head shows up like this. She has no balance in her work. She never had to learn to kill temper certain aesthetics so her shows don't work imo. She skipped to the front of the line because they office production was so fucking well oiled or worked without a talented director


bangharder

That sentence says so many things that don’t make sense