The Mindy Project‘s Ike Barinholtz guest stars in one of the season’s goofier outings.
This is going to be a little shorter than my usual reviews, just because I liked the episode a lot but don’t feel like I have much to say about it. It was another strong episode in a strong season that relied on a lot of Brooklyn’s most dependable elements: Jake and Boyle’s friendship, Amy and Holt geeking out over something obscure, Terry over committing, and Rosa just generally being confused by it all.
It was nice to see a Jake/Charles story again, and Charles definitely needed his best bud for this one. I’ve been really pleased with the number of Jake/Amy stories this season, but that’s meant that both of them have had less time with other characters.
This show is great at taking a ridiculous premise, like Boyle having a Latvian son named Nikolaj, and turning it into a realistic and sort of lovely story. Here, we ended with a discussion about the complexities of adoption and the importance of friends listening to one another. Not bad for an episode that also had Terry Crews doing his best Caesar Flickerman.
Other quick thoughts:
Amy and Holt are such a pair in episodes like this, from laughing way too long to needing a thirty minute discussion over who was apologizing.
The Disney references cracked me up, and I can 100% relate to that being a point of commonality among friends.
Ike Barinholtz was the perfect person to play Gintars, and he and Andy Samberg were a lot of fun together.
What did you think of “Gintars”? Hit the comments, and let me know!
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