A new Gen Z sitcom from Mindy Kaling, “Not Suitable for Work,” premieres with three episodes on June 2 and follows friends in Manhattan’s Murray Hill, where dating, ambition, and media clout collide.
On June 2, three episodes of “Not Suitable for Work” arrive, and they don’t waste time: the show drops its Gen Z friends into Manhattan—specifically, fratty Murray Hill—where everyone seems to be chasing a version of cool.
The sitcom, from Mindy Kaling, is set in New York and leans into a familiar tension right away. Unlike the boho types of “Girls” and last year’s “Adults,” which follow young people scraping by in the outer boroughs, these pals live closer to the center of the city’s social gravity.
First-year investment banker AJ (Ella Hunt) delivers the mood in a lament that’s played like comedy but reads like a rite of passage: she frets. “I’m not cool enough for Brooklyn.” Her solution is practical and emotional at the same time—she’s moving in with her best friend. Abby (Avantika). Abby. for her part. is the enterprising assistant of a bratty stylist (Constance Wu). the kind of behind-the-scenes position that can quickly turn into leverage.
Across the hall, everyone’s romance seems to have its own agenda.
Reluctant med student Kel (Nicholas Duvernay) wants something else—he longs to be an actor. Josh (Jack Martin) brings a different kind of performance: he has the politics of a middle-aged liberal. complete with an Obama poster and NPR merch. and the confidence to use his mogul dad’s clout. That access is aimed squarely at the job he wants: a role getting hired by an Anderson-Cooper-esque cable news host played by Victor Garber—someone Josh idolizes.
Then there’s Davis (Will Angus), written as a bumbling romcom loverboy who falls hard for AJ. The connection is complicated by AJ’s workplace, too: she also happens to work with Davis.
All of it lands in a Manhattan apartment arrangement that feels engineered for quick conflict—friends, love interests, and career dreams bouncing off each other in close quarters from the first batch of episodes.
Mindy Kaling Not Suitable for Work Gen Z sitcom Ella Hunt Avantika Constance Wu Nicholas Duvernay Jack Martin Victor Garber Will Angus Murray Hill Manhattan June 2 premiere