Mindy Kaling's newest show hit Hulu and immediately started climbing the charts.
According to Collider, citing data from FlixPatrol, Not Suitable for Work reached number four worldwide within a single day of its premiere. The series, which had released only three episodes at the time, follows five work-obsessed 20-somethings living together in a Friends-style arrangement in Murray Hill, a Manhattan neighborhood, as they try to balance ambition with the rest of their lives.
The show is the latest in a string of streaming successes for Kaling, who released the second season of Running Point on Netflix as recently as April 2026.
But Not Suitable for Work is more than just another project. In a recent interview with Good Morning America, Kaling described it as the closing chapter of a personal trilogy. "In my mind, this is the third show in a trilogy of shows that are about my life," she said. "Never Have I Ever is about me being in high school, Sex Lives of College Girls was about my time at Dartmouth, and this is this last pivotal time in my youth, which was moving to New York City, being super ambitious and being in your 20s."
Never Have I Ever launched in 2020 and ran for four seasons, following its characters through high school. The Sex Lives of College Girls premiered in 2021 and ran for three seasons before being cancelled in May 2025. Not Suitable for Work picks up where those stories left off, at least thematically.
Each show in the trilogy features a central Indian-American character that Kaling has described as a version of herself. In Never Have I Ever, that character is Devi Vishwakumar, played by Maitreyi Ramakrishnan. In The Sex Lives of College Girls, it is Bela Malhotra, played by Amrit Kaur. In Not Suitable for Work, Avantika Vandanapu plays Abhinaya "Abby" Chilukuri, an assistant to a celebrity stylist who lives in constant fear of losing her job.
The show is still in its early days, with only three episodes available at the time of this writing. Given the strong out-of-the-gate numbers, the series looks likely to continue rising through the charts as more viewers find it.
