Laura Brodnick

Okay.

Whatever.

Because Schmidt's so like neurotic.

Okay.

No, you're entitled to your own thought.

Yeah, well, he's a lot to kind of create that character.

Well, the thing is they wanted her love interest to kind of like, again, be a bit out of like this, like every other, all the other men in the show, like a bit douchey, but also really power, like hungry with secrets and stuff.

And Lev is meant to be sort of like this outside world of like an opposites of track.

Like Isla Gordon is this rich kind of messed up woman who is also like a big theme of also season two was like, she's a bad person.

which is, you know, the whole kind of like thing that we see her go through.

And Lev was kind of like this almost too good to be true, nice doctor who cares about his family and cares about her and gives her second chances and like makes her coffee in the morning and is just always there in the background.

And that's a very common rom-com trope, which Mindy Kaling loves to take a rom-com trope and like put it in the show but then like play off it in a bigger storyline.

Yeah.

Because it's this idea of like this is the perfect guy

but I'm not in love with him, as we find out in this season.

And I can't force... On paper, he's perfect, but there's no, like, fire.

Yes, because you thought in season one, even though he'd done some bad things, that he had picked Isla to take over the family business because he really believed in her.

He believed in her.

He was giving her a chance, but it's only because he thought she would fail.

Huge plot twist.