The Mindy Project follows a woman who, despite having a successful career, is unlucky in love and desperately needs to get her personal life back on track before her friends and colleagues are forced to stage an intervention. Mindy Lahiri, whose professional success does not match the mess that is her personal life, the first series kicks off with a drunken toast at her ex-boyfriends wedding that leads to an embarrassing brush with the law, and its all downhill from there.