The Mindy Kaling-created Netflix series “Never Have I Ever” did not get any love from the TV Academy this week as the Emmy’s completely snubbed Kaling’s show. However, instead of taking it like a champ and saying “next time,” Kaling made sure to let us know that the TV academy ignoring her show had to probably do with race.
“We love our #neverahaveiever cast, are so proud of the reviews and the 40+ million people who watched and loved it worldwide,” the writer and actress tweeted about the Emmy snub on Tuesday. “Sometimes a show like ours will always seem ethnic or niche to a certain group of people.”
What a sense-of-entitlement. Kaling’s tweet was in response to a journalist asking on Twitter where the comedy was in Tuesday morning’s nominee announcements. “Wait. Stop the celebrations. Where the f is #NeverHaveIEver?” tweeted Ahmed.
Hate to break it to you Mind, but I was unimpressed by your screenwriting in “Late Night,” loathed your “Four Weddings” reboot, and, yeah, I did find “Never Have I Ever” to be a mostly enjoyable watch, nothing more, nothing less. Diversity is great, but so is being funny and entertaining and forgive us for not enjoying your work as much as you feel we should.
This “ethnic” problem with the Emmys doesn’t seem to have stopped them from showering the HBO series “Ramy” with multiple nods, ditto Issa Rae’s brilliant ‘Insecure.” Hell, there are three women of color nominated in the drama actress category this year. So, yeah, Mindy’s excuse just sounds egotistical and filled with entitlement. If anything, the reason her show got snubbed was that voters just didn’t think it was good enough.