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You Know What’s Boring?

Movies that purport to be about people defying sexual and relational norms but are really about how sexual compatibility+friendship=soulmates with as much certainty and inevitability as a mathematical equation:

You know what’s even more boring? Two of them:

When even Mindy Kaling doesn’t change things, you know there’s trouble. Would it kill someone to make a movie with a messy ending about a couple that doesn’t end up choosing romance?

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