Respectfully disagree! No one I know in real life would leave a new mother alone with a weeks-old baby to be with an ailing parent, especially one they've been estranged from. They might go for a few days, but they'd make arrangements. Now, granted, that contrivance was because Messina was shooting a film, but it WAS…

Please. Do not mention Will Gardner. STILL not over it.

My problem is he no longer has those contradictions. He no longer has nuances or lovable flaws. And he really wasn't that big of a dick before. If you go back and watch the episodes—sure, he had his moments. But he almost always came around. The episode where he writes the Stanford recommendation letter is a perfect…

Like this 1000 times!

It concealed the shoddy and terrible writing of the current plot by doing even worse shoddy and terrible writing, lol!

Oh yeah! Messina is sexy as hell. He has always got a number of films in the hopper. I know of at least two right now, and he's got a couple in post-production. He's one of the busiest supporting actors in Hollywood (and often the lead in indies), so it always cracks me up when people say that he has no real career to…

Is that the one called "Blame", Classic? I just heard he's the lead in it—an indie—but I don't know if it's in production yet. It doesn't even show up in his new projects on IMDB.

Great Amys think alike. I'm a professional writer, and it's lazy writing, pure and simple. And the tone! I'm getting seasick from the bouncing back and forth from comedy to drama to comedy again. I mean WTF—Retro-Written Danny telling Mindy she's a joke and she starts crying? Not funny, cruel, and just plain pathetic…

Ah. So maybe that's how they do the Danny redemption arc. He goes to therapy and re-hashes his previous marriage and sees the error of his ways. I'm having a hard time visualizing where he can possibly go at this point. They've so destroyed his character.

Really, what it comes down to is bad writing. I don't believe the way Danny is now being portrayed. I don't believe his motivations. I don't believe the dialogue. Character continuity is a matter of degree. He was a little bit of a jerk the first three seasons, but he was caring and bighearted and funny. To now make…

It's not because we can't deal with being "re-confronted" with his foibles. It's because we can't deal with the atrocious writing and total lack of character continuity. This is not the same Danny. Trust me, I've watched all three seasons previous to this again—and Danny was never cruel. If he was a jerk, he was a…

WTF with the writing on this show? So we're supposed to believe that after three seasons of grumpy, but bighearted Danny, he's a deliberately cruel, humorless dick who is just plain mean for no reason? That scene where he tells Mindy she's a joke and makes her cry was unbearable to watch. Sorry, but I'm not buying a…

Totally agree! I'm just trying to make sense out of the bad writing with a cockamamie theory, because it's totally incomprehensible to me what the hell they're doing. And I just read a quote from CM about how he could never write or direct TMP because it's way out of his element, so I don't think he's the type to…

I want CM to leave because I'm a big fan of his and I don't want him to lapse into Patrick Dempsey/MacDreamy syndrome, where Danny C. is all he's remembered for, and he fades away into relative obscurity. I don't think that would happen, because CM is a serious actor and much more in demand, but I think it would be…

My problem with Steven Weber is I think he's Tim Daly. They look a lot alike, similar voices etc. So when Steven Weber was on, I was really confused as to why the cop was mourning his wife and Mindy acted like she didn't know him. They're both cute as hell.

That would be in my circle! I found that sneaking a pregnancy on her so incredibly offensive—I was like WTF? And TMP thinks that's FUNNY? That's where I think they have really jumped the shark with Danny. Sure, before he could be a dick—but not a frickin' abusive control freak who has no respect for Mindy and just…

Oh, thanks about my bf. It was a long time ago, but it was eerie how similar it was to the Good Wife. But I agree. I don't watch it anymore.

I didn't know Will was going to die, because I didn't pay attention to it when it was on, and just binge-watched it this year. I cried for a week, and then I said what the hell is going on? This is just a TV show, and then I realized that it brought up an old memory. When a bf died—I only had a voicemail message, and…

Ever see "The Good Wife"? When Josh Charles decided to leave "The Good Wife", they changed the story arc so that he and his former lover Alisha became antagonists, and he became more of an vindictive asshole. Of course, he was a beloved character and before he was abruptly murdered (STILL not over it!), he had a big…

I agree. It's hard to imagine where they're going to go with the show, especially since they're now making the most beloved character so unlikable. It's getting to a point where I'm not sure Danny can be redeemed, not unless he has some major Come To Jesus moment. So where is there for the show to go? Her being a…