Do you actually WANT Mindy to get back together with Danny

I don't think he is actually abusive or even on the verge of PHYSICAL abuse. I just think he shows lots of warning signs, the controlling behavior, rigid gender roles, and isolation. The episode where he watched her on the baby monitor to make sure she didn't go out really freaked me out. And then, when he sees her doing WORK with Jody, he has sort of flipped out about it. He also expects her to be perfect, and if she's not, she's evil. He just seems to flirt with the line of being an emotionally abusive man.

Most abusive men were themselves abused. We know little about Danny's relationship with his father except that Danny hates him but is trying to forgive him.

Interesting point about Christina. In the episode, Weiner Night, with the photo exhibit, Christina portrays Danny as the devil and says, "I'm a survivor, a survivor who came out of a very dark time with a man focused on extinguishing my light" (Just went back and watched that part on Hulu). At the time, we assumed she was overreacting/overstating things, particularly because she had voluntarily gone back to Danny after a long absence. But I suppose it's possible she felt that way for some legitimate reason. Like maybe he really was that controlling. Even his ex, Jillian said something to the effect of there being only one right way to do things, and it's the Danny Castellano way.

I'd like to see him get help, actual help, so they can be together.

This is an interesting route for them to go on a sit-com. I've seen them do a relationship breaking up and coming back together on a drama I watched, Parenthood, and it was very contentious because, in an effort to make it arguable who was at fault, they sort of made the characters unsympathetic so, as here, you sort of didn't know what to root for. It's harder to tackle something like that in a sit-com where 1) They only have 22 minutes per episode and 2) You expect it to be funny. But we'll see. It seems like they'll probably get back together. I hope, if they do, they have another season (Parenthood did not) so we'll get to see if that was actually a good idea. I also hope they don't rush things.

"Arguing with trolls is like playing chess with a pigeon . . . ."

That is a good point about Christina. When you think about it, a lot of the problems with Danny have been evident from the very first episode, when he called Mindy fat, or the second one, where he tried to prevent her having a power position in the office. He was just so sexist and mean that it was weird. People are saying that it is character assassination, but in a way, many of these seeds have been planted from the beginning. It's just we weren't expecting them to be relevant. We were expecting more of a character arc where Danny changed over the course of the show. But, when you think of it, how many sit-com characters really ever change. That's part of the thing of a weekly sit-com -- that the characters stay the pretty much the same. The situation might change, like a character could get a new career or boyfriend or whatever, but the characters stay pretty similar.

Also, the planting of all these clues about Danny is sort of smarter than I was giving the show credit for being. If they've really done years of character work to show us how Danny is NOT right for Mindy (when we thought they were trying to do the opposite), that's pretty clever.