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The Mindy Project, S01E10

Mindy's little brother Rishi came to stay with her and tell her that he was dropping out of school to become a rapper.  Mindy tried to kick him out and teach him tough love in hopes that he would return to school.  Jeremy and Danny also spent time at a nursing home to get their landlord to lower their rent again after the landlord's son had raised it too high.

It was nice to see someone from Mindy's family.  He was pretty cute and I liked seeing Mindy sort of mother him in a way.  It was just a bonus that he ended up wanting to be a rapper and was pretty good at it, even if Mindy didn't want to see that at the beginning.  My favorite part of the whole story was definitely the end where Mindy went to support him and ended up being his backup singer.  She was sort of ruining his performance with her unnecessary comments about the lyrics mid-singing, but it was still funny.  Best of all, Mindy seemed a little more relaxed and hopefully this will be the end of her stress barfing.  I also liked at the very end that she suggested that Rishi should change him name to "Nice Cube."  That's hilariously bad.

In the Danny and Jeremy story, there wasn't much I thought about it.  I did like seeing Jeremy getting pissed at the landlord's son.  He was a jerk, for sure.  I would have liked to see Jeremy deal with that little idiot some more.  The time the two spent at the nursing home wasn't interesting enough to really say much.  It just seemed like a waste of time, despite that they got their rent lowered again.

I liked this episode, but I'm sort of disappointed that there weren't many jokes that I could enjoy.  I wonder if Rishi will be in any more stories.  I doubt that he's going back to school, but it's not really clear if he's a one-shot character or not.  I'm not sure if adding Mindy's family to the mix will make for better stories in the future, but I wouldn't rule out the possibility yet.  This show is still young, after all.