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"At this point, being a Mindy Project fan feels a little bit like loving the Yankees. (Or, at least, what I imagine loving the Yankees to feel like&amp;amp;#8212;as a Phillies fan, I hate the Yankees, but I also have a big imagination.) What I mean is: This show&amp;#x27;s just winning and winning. I walk away from every episode feeling like I just watched my favorite players hit it out of the park again, and it&amp;#x27;s incredibly satisfying just to be on their side. There&amp;#x27;s little to criticize, from a TV-blogger standpoint; there&amp;#x27;s even less not to like, as a TV fan. This team doesn&amp;#x27;t have a bad season. But there was one thing from last night&amp;#x27;s episode that didn&amp;#x27;t bother me while I was watching but nagged at me this morning, like a bad call I didn&amp;#x27;t catch till I watched the highlights at home. It was the part where Danny finally told Mindy the only thing wrong with her body is she sucks in her stomach too much. Let me back up a second: To an extent, the show has cleared the decks in season two to let Mindy and Danny&amp;#x27;s friendship take center stage. We&amp;#x27;ve seen less of Mindy&amp;#x27;s friends and family coming into town; the story lines belonging to other employees of Schulman and Associates are a little smaller and neater now, more likely to be separated from Mindy&amp;#x27;s action altogether. I think this has partially to do with Mindy Kaling feeling confident enough in our love of Mindy Lahiri to move further away from Office-style ensemble moments. But whatever the motive, it&amp;#x27;s made season two the year of Mindy and Danny&amp;amp;#8212;a will they/won&amp;#x27;t they I&amp;#x27;m enjoying more than any budding TV love in recent memory, thanks to a number of sweet Castellano-soft-side moments. Still there&amp;#x27;s a fine line between sweet and&amp;amp;#8212;well, I don&amp;#x27;t know what to call it, exactly, but what I do know is that I don&amp;#x27;t want Danny validation to become the main source of Mindy confidence. See, I love a good scene where Danny, in a half-slip-up way, reveals that deep down, he thinks Mindy is wonderful. But something about his blessing over Mindy&amp;#x27;s bod last night ultimately didn&amp;#x27;t sit well with me. For me, the more triumphant moment was watching Mindy strip down in her office and reclaim her perception of her body. She practiced mugging for Cliff and looked totally happy. The credits could have rolled for me then (but, yeah, we had to get the owl back into the wild, so I get it.) My concern is this: Mindy Lahiri burst onto the screen day one as a woman who, if bombastic at times, has a soaring level of confidence we could all stand to emulate (perhaps without always saying everything she does out loud). I won&amp;#x27;t sit here and pretend that guys don&amp;#x27;t have power over the way we see ourselves, good or bad, but Mindy Lahiri is that friend of mine who I want to believe has made up her mind without them. Danny&amp;#x27;s compliments are welcome; his actual influence, not so much. But what do you think?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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