Bryan Greenberg, Rebecca Rittenhouse, and Jack Davenport have all been cast for season 5. I don't understand why it's necessary for her to keep adding new actors to every season. Jody and Colette were already added last season, and now Mindy is trying to change the dynamic of the show even more. It's her show so of course she can do whatever she wants, but I think it's getting to be kind of an overload. Just my opinion, though.
shareShe's desperately trying to fill the gaping hole in her show that Chris Messina left when he quit. (It's not working.)
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That's so true, Anita. It seems like season 5 will be all over the place with these new characters and no more Chris Messina as a main cast member.
shareRegarding the nuking of the Mindy-Danny relationship: When you bake a cake using salt instead of sugar, it doesn't matter how well you decorate the cake, it's still a ruined cake.
shareThese are GUEST STARS not new main cast members. Google it. They announce every time they cast someone in a tiny recurring role. Like remember when Niecy Nash was on a few episodes, and there was a press release then? Or Julia Stiles? Or James Franco? Or Vanessa Williams? Or any of Mindy's revolving boyfriends in season 1 or 2? Like that. Like they just have a press release so there will be a news story about the show. Every show does that.
To prove this (to myself) I just googled a random and very popular show, The Big Bang Theory. Other than, apparently, the fact that Kaley Cuoco gave an interview which fueled speculation that the show wouldn't last beyond its already contracted seasons, the main news stories were the casting of actors to play Penny's parents (Jack McBrayer and Katie Sagal, if you're interested -- I am because I love both of them).
This show has always, always been guest star heavy. From the first episodes, with Seth Meyer and Bill Hader (God, I wish they'd bring his character back because he was my favorite ex-boyfriend) to now. If you don't like guest stars, this is probably not your show. But these actors (and also Nasim Pedrad, who totally can't act outside of sketch comedy, so I'm glad) are not main cast. They are guests.
"Arguing with trolls is like playing chess with a pigeon . . . ."
The cast has been a mess from the beginning, really the only consistent characters are Mindy and morgan, kinda Jeremy - Christ what did they do to Jeremy! But yeah there was that secretary, that annoying clingy girl, Peter all came and went. Tamra , jody, Colette showed up out of nowhere.
Really just a huge mess
Agreed. I love Jody and Colette and their politically correct, and staunchly politically incorrect characters that contrast the rest of the cast. No need for more characters. They aren't doing enough with the latest additions.
Jack's not dead! Jack would never die without telling me, first!
Poor Jeremy. Is he going to have even less to do now that there's another charming Brit on board?
"What race are you? If you don't tell me I'll just...assume the worst."
One thing about this show is that people come and go all the time like in real life. That's just me though
shareYes! I feel that cable and streaming shows are more like this whereas network sit-coms feel more of a need to have a consistent cast. I like this way. The other day, I was watching two new CBS shows, Kevin Can Wait and that one with Matt LeBlanc, and I felt like, "God, I have seen this show a thousand times before -- a goofy guy and his pretty wife with their kids in a living room set with the staircase in back, Everybody Loves Raymond, Still Standing, According to Jim, etc., etc., etc." Every once in a while, they'll change it up with a show like Roseanne, where the wife isn't hot, but really, a lot of the same show. I really like shows where something unexpected can happen. Hulu definitely does that with shows like Difficult People and Casual. The show that perfected it was FX's Louie, where Louie appeared on all 61 episodes, and no other character appeared on more than 32. Because that is what life is like, you don't spend all day every day with the same people.
"Arguing with trolls is like playing chess with a pigeon . . . ."