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"Well, ladies, I almost feel a little bad here. After the past two weeks of Mindy Project, you&amp;amp;#8217;ve been spoiled with a view directly into Mindy Kaling&amp;amp;#8217;s brain, courtesy of our Jess. I can&amp;amp;#8217;t offer you the same exciting privilege today. But what I can do is try to map, serial-killer-investigator-style, exactly where the show is going with Mindy and Danny. Because this dynamic has taken on a level of mystery on par with Mad Men&amp;amp;#8212;you just don&amp;amp;#8217;t realize it because Morgan&amp;amp;#8217;s one-liners (&amp;amp;#8220;OK&amp;amp;#133; I&amp;amp;#8217;ve never had a scarf&amp;amp;#8221;) and Mindy&amp;amp;#8217;s killer outfits (that blue-and-white dress last night!) keep things light. Really, though: I am so intrigued by the show&amp;amp;#8217;s Danny-Mindy strategy&amp;amp;#8212;or, as I call it when I&amp;amp;#8217;m fangirling too fast, the show&amp;amp;#8217;s &amp;amp;#8220;Manny-Dindy strategy.&amp;amp;#8221; I can&amp;amp;#8217;t remember a time when a series has so gleefully plumbed the middle ground between a one-time awkward hookup and a prolonged relationship. Our perspectives would have reluctantly adjusted if, after their mile-high tryst, the friends and colleagues laughingly dismissed it as a one-time thing, inspired by altitude sickness. But the instant commitment and abrupt breakup, I think, still has our heads spinning&amp;amp;#8212;to the point that sometimes it&amp;amp;#8217;s hard to concentrate on what&amp;amp;#8217;s gone on in the show since. (Tell me you haven&amp;amp;#8217;t had a moment when someone besides Danny or Mindy is talking, and all you can think about is what they&amp;amp;#8217;re thinking about right now.) And the show is doing everything it can to combat our fixation. They&amp;amp;#8217;ve laid out a buffet of the distractions they know we like best: other romances (Morgan and Tamra), great clothes (the aforementioned blue-and-white look), budding friendships (Adam Pally gets more endearing by the week), and flashy guest stars (Max Greenfield as a first-grade teacher who, judging from the number of flings he has growing, never has time to grade projects). All the while, there&amp;amp;#8217;s a steady current of Danny missing Mindy&amp;amp;#8217;s friendship, and Mindy refusing to give into the temptation to accommodate him. She&amp;amp;#8217;s heartbroken, but she&amp;amp;#8217;s not weak&amp;amp;#8212;and while most of her exes are privy to her special brand of post-breakup craziness, Danny is not. She&amp;amp;#8217;s shutting him out, and every ducked conversation makes his original motivation for sorta-dumping her&amp;amp;#8212;to avoid risking their friendship&amp;amp;#8212;seem more futile. So what does that tell us? If I was a betting man (and let&amp;amp;#8217;s face it, a world in which you could play the odds on specific TV story lines would quickly bankrupt me), I would wager that Danny will soon come to a conclusion: He needs Mindy in his life, period, more than he needs Mindy in his life, friendship-only. I think he&amp;amp;#8217;s got time to wise up to that before the season finale. So while it seemed for a minute there that we&amp;amp;#8217;d missed our chance to watch them date indefinitely&amp;amp;#8212;and while writers like Ike Barinholtz aren&amp;amp;#8217;t tipping their hand this way&amp;amp;#8212;I think we&amp;amp;#8217;ll exit season two confident that relationship times are ahead and season three. And I&amp;amp;#8217;m ready."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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