Tonight’s The Mindy Project season 3, episode 21, “What to Expect When You’re Expanding,” focused on the importance of accepting yourself even if others won’t.
Mindy, now three months pregnant, has become extremely self-conscious about her looks. It’s not exactly surprising – she always ensures she’s looking her best but with a growing baby inside her, it makes sense that she’d lose some confidence. But her sex drive is gone. She ripped her favorite skinny dress. She’s confined herself to matching Morgan’s track suits. Things aren’t looking good for the doctor/business-owner/mom-to-be.
Enter: Tamra’s cousin Sheena (guest star Laverne Cox). The woman knows how to draw the inner-diva out of anyone, even Mindy, who can barely strike a pose in the mirror. Sheena provides some great insights — you wouldn’t talk about how bad your best friend looks. Well, you are your best friend.
Sheena, on babies: “They steal your youth and beauty and keep it for themselves.”
Mindy invites Danny into the bedroom, where she’s lying in bed in a spandex gold unitard and body necklace. Danny starts laughing. Boy, that man is in for it when Sheena gets to him. She points out that Mindy is “building a damn baby in there” and the only thing Danny should be doing is building up her self-confidence. He does try to call her beautiful and sexy, but she won’t believe him.
Finally, after confronting Jessica (more on that below) Mindy comes to the realization that she will never believe Danny when he calls her beautiful if she doesn’t feel it herself.
Side note: It is nice, though, that she’ll have her brother around when the baby comes. Mindy moved Rishi back out to New York, giving him a job at her fertility clinic. Hopefully we can see more of him on the show, as he often adds a certain type of dry humor to The Mindy Project.
In the Land of the Singles, Jeremy — Jer — demands Danny and Morgan attend his singles pajama party, in order to help him find a girlfriend. He doesn’t have the best luck with woman, heck just look to last week’s episode to prove Jeremy doesn’t have the best luck period.
Then again, neither does Morgan, as of late. While at the singles pajama party, Morgan spots supposed girlfriend Jessica. When she talks with Danny, it makes it hard to like her. She says Morgan has let himself go, gaining thirty pounds, always eating. She breaks up with him the next day.
But as one man becomes single, one man does the walk of shame into the office’s group photo. Jeremy hits it off with the woman — Cristin Milioti — who shut down the singles party. This writer is personally a big fan of Milioti, so we’re hoping she makes more appearances on the show.
Overall, the episode was about self-acceptance and that love comes from within. We dig it.
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