Yup. The timeline makes no sense. Spin is spin.

Exactly. Pure PR. The interview dances around the same questions that Mindy Kaling and Matt Warburton evaded elsewhere. And Messina doesn't confirm that the now-long-wrapped movie is the reason for his current absence from the credits and all-but-nonexistent onscreen time on the few episodes on which he appears. …

I feel I am qualified to write for this show, because I have a rare cognitive disorder that prevents me from remembering things more than one week old. Apologies if I've posted this already.

If I could upvote this 1,000,000 times, I would.