Fox ‘Mindy Project’ Season 3 Premiere Episode Spoilers: Mindy Kaling Compared To ‘Eastbound & Down’ Kenny Powers

The Mindy Project is all new tonight with the first episode of its third season. Recently Ike Barinholtz opened up about the new season, comparing Mindy Kaling to Eastbound & Down’s Kenny Powers.

The official plot synopsis for tonight’s Season 3 premiere of The Mindy Project, titled “We're a Couple Now, Haters!," reads:

“Mindy and Danny try to find a balance between work and romance in the Season 3 premiere. Meanwhile, Morgan's cousin Lou visits the office; and Jeremy organizes a charity event with Peter's girlfriend.”

Recently, Morgan Tookers actor, Ike Barinholtz spoke to The Daily Beast about the show’s appeal:

“The thing is this: the only way this show is girlie is that Mindy wears colorful clothing. Mindy Kaling has the mentality of Eastbound & Down’s Kenny Powers. And I don’t mean Danny McBride. I mean Kenny Powers. But because she’s a very confident, intelligent, strong, funny woman who wrote this amazing book, she really speaks to young women. So we do have a core fanbase of women 18 to 25. So when we’re out we are flooded by smart, educated women who Mindy just really speaks to. So there is that element. And you’re right, maybe there is for some guys the stigma that this is a rom-com, that they think it’s going to be like a Katherine Heigl movie. But it’s not! Mindy puts the comedy first. That’s one thing I love about her. The most important thing to her is being funny.”

Barinholtz went on to add to add that show’s fan base is growing:

“I noticed in the last year that I get a lot more dudes in backwards hats at airports wearing fraternity shirts being like, ‘What’s up, man? You’re on that show with that girl. I’m into that. My girlfriend got me into that. I like it, dude.’ So I do feel like there is a broadening of our audience a little bit. We are opening it up to the bro demographic.”

Check out the new episode tonight at 9:30 p.m.

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