I can usually find something good to say about a TMP episode, but today's episode was just awful. It seems like the writers are trying to force Jody to be the new Danny now, which is really unnecessary and annoying. 😒
shareI came up here to post something similar. I do not like where this show is going. If Danny and Mindy have broken up, why hook her up with the poor man's Danny (Jody). Ever since Jody has come in the show, they have been shoving him down our throats and he is just like Danny circa season 1 and 2 by being Mindy's antagonist to eventual friend. His underhanded/joking comments, especially the one about her shrimp eating sounded like something Danny would have said to her back in the day. Danny at least in my opinion was endearing and likable, Jody is not, plus he has no chemistry with Mindy the way Danny did.
I am upset that they had to write Danny as a bad guy, just because the actor cannot do the show anymore or whatever the case may be. I liked Danny and Mindy together and ultimately would like them to be endgame. If Mindy has to date other people in the mean time, fine, but don't saddle her with the poor man's Danny for us to endure a chemistry less, pod version of Danny and Mindy.
Exactly! Plus, Jody's "southern" accent is awful. I went to college in Georgia and no one I met there sounded like that at all. And I agree with you that his plot line is pretty much recycled from Danny's in seasons 1 and 2. I cringe at the idea of the writers pairing them together this season! It's too bad that Chris Messina most likely can't do the show anymore because he has been such an integral part of the previous seasons. And why go through all of that effort to have them get engaged and have a baby together? I knew that the show was headed downhill when Mindy got pregnant--it just seemed out of place in general--and now the whole story line behind her getting engaged and having a baby just seems pointless. I wouldn't be surprised if the show gets canceled after this season. :(
shareTrue, Jody sounds NOTHING like the modern Georgia accent, but I think they were going for a Civil War-aristocratic sound. Because he's all stuffy and stuck in the Old South mind set. Just guessin'.
shareSaw one article that referred to it as a "Foghorn Leghorn accent" (cartoon chicken). I think you're right. It's not that such an accent never existed so much as that with the advent of television, regional speech has become more standardized, so such heavy accents are rare. He would fit in perfectly on the PBS series, Mercy Street, about a Civil War hospital at an aristocrat's house in Virginia.
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