Late Night
Directed by Nisha Ganatra Late Night isn’t the first comedy set behind the scenes of a longrunning network TV show, said Johnny Oleksinski in the New York Post. But writer and co-star Mindy Kaling “shrewdly crumples up that old formula and starts fresh”: She has invented a late-night talk show that for decades has been the fiefdom of a prickly female host who, to prove she doesn’t hate other women, finally adds a woman to her writing staff. Kaling plays the accidental trailblazer, an earnest newcomer who’s given little time to prove her worth. “It’s a setup ripe for sharp commentary on women coexisting in a male