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"The world is swooning today over The Mindy Project finale&amp;amp;#8212;and I count myself among them but for a slightly different reason. Sure, Chris Messina (who spilled to Jess here about the whole ordeal) and Mindy Kaling were divine. And, yeah, the episode killed it as a romantic comedy referential. I wasn&amp;#x27;t just seeing the Meg Ryan boxed set; I was seeing Annie Hall and Pretty in Pink and Ira and Abby. But while the episode&amp;amp;#8212;and the show at large&amp;amp;#8212;certainly deserves to be daisy-crowned the rom-com&amp;#x27;s best hope (ya just got shown up, movie industry), that&amp;#x27;s not what I saw first and foremost in this finale. Forget film and its genre. What last night&amp;#x27;s Mindy Project said to me was: We have returned to appreciating feely comedy. Think about it. Friends, which went off the air 10 years ago today, rarely went a season without a teary moment. Sex and the City tugged at our heartstrings on a weekly basis. Don&amp;#x27;t get me started on the stuff we grew up on, like The Wonder Years. The sitcoms that came up afterward didn&amp;#x27;t lack heart, but they ruthlessly edited out emotional overindulgence. Everything from 30 Rock to Arrested Development made us forget that we used to love lovey moments. As they built Pam and Jim&amp;#x27;s show-defining relationship, The Office&amp;#x27;s idea of Lloyd Dobler holding a stereo was Jim holding work-appropriate eye contact a second longer than normal. During the show&amp;#x27;s few truly romantic moments, you could feel the writers convincing themselves that they earned this&amp;amp;#8212;and they still never forsook the anti-sap vibe. I loved that then. And I&amp;#x27;m definitely a TV viewer who maxes out on gushy stuff easily. But watching New Girl and some of its too-cool contemporaries lately, I&amp;#x27;ve sometimes found myself wanting to yell, &amp;quot;What are you so afraid of? Just have an all-out, sweeping, feel-tastic moment!&amp;quot; Before you say it: Yes, Nick and Jess&amp;#x27;s kiss fits that description. But I get frustrated with the mumbling, shuffling, and overly jokey-joking that undercuts too many romantic scenes on that show and others. (On a not totally unrelated note: I maintain that lots of people watch Parenthood simply because no other shows make them cry anymore.) This is what made last night&amp;#x27;s Mindy so satisfying: Yes, the razor-sharp writers had earned that sunny city montage. But it&amp;#x27;s not like they&amp;#x27;ve shied away from romance all season&amp;amp;#8212;they&amp;#x27;ve proved in every episode that cutting-edge comedy and truly sweet moments can coexist, unapologetically. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s as simple as the pop culture pendulum swinging back again, or maybe it&amp;#x27;s because I swear the younguns are more sarcastic than ever on the Instagram today (translation: I&amp;#x27;m getting soft in my old age). Either way, I&amp;#x27;m ready for a new era of heartfelt TV&amp;amp;#8212;and for The Mindy Project to continue leading the way."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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