How Did ‘Mindy Project’ Season 5 End? Recap Before Season 6 Premiere

All good things must come to an end, but luckily we still have one final season to go before that's the case for “The Mindy Project.”

The hilarious rom-com sitcom, which was created by and stars Mindy Kaling, was canceled prematurely at Fox in 2015 after airing for three seasons. But it didn’t take long for Hulu to swoop in and give the gynecologist office-set series a new home. Now, the series is getting the ending it deserves in the form of a final season, with its first episode premiering on Tuesday.

But before starting the sixth and last season, let’s take a look back at how the last season ended. There are always cliffhangers at the end of season finales, and Season 5’s was no different.

Mindy (Kaling) finds out that her boyfriend Ben (Bryan Greenberg) was planning on proposing to her, but he never did because she happened to give him some speech about how she no longer wants to get married. Though she had just come to the conclusion that she doesn’t need to get married, which is a huge revelation for someone who was engaged multiple times and is an avid romantic-comedy watcher and lover, this idea that Ben was going to propose to her but didn’t troubles her.

That doesn’t mean marriage talks weren’t going on somewhere else on the show. Mindy’s co-worker Colette (Fortune Feimster) realizes she’s ready to take the next step with her girlfriend Karen (Tipper Newton) and asks her to marry her. Though it isn’t long before cold feet take over and turn Colette off the idea, causing her to run out on her own engagement party and ask her best friend Morgan (Ike Barinholtz) to break up with Karen for her.

Elsewhere, Jeremy (Ed Weeks) and Anna (Rebecca Rittenhouse) are having friendship difficulties as Anna’s ex-husband comes back in the picture and decides he wants Anna back. This is troublesome as Jeremy is really starting to like Anna and wants to be more than just friends with her, but this can’t happen if she gets back together with her ex. Plus, Jeremy knows that Anna’s ex is a cheater and not good for her.

By the end of the episode, though, many things are worked out. Jeremy convinces Anna that she’s better off without her ex and that is considered a win. The fact that Jeremy then gets punched by said ex is not a win.

With that settled and Colette free of Karen, thanks to Morgan, that just leaves Mindy and Ben, and Ben’s daughter Lindsay (Brianna Reed). Realization washes over Mindy and she comes to terms with the fact that she no longer feels like she has to get married but that she wants to. She wants to marry Ben and be a step-mother to Lindsay. And so, with Lindsay and her son Leo in hand, Mindy proposes to Ben with the same comic book that he had sold to afford Mindy’s engagement ring in the first place.

It was an incredibly sweet and perfect scene. Right up until the very closing shot, when the camera zooms in on Mindy and the audience sees her face slightly change as the knowledge of everything that’s happening really settles in. She’s making an interesting, slightly concerned face that leaves fans wondering: Is she regretting her proposal already? Will she finally go through with a wedding and be married to Ben and a stepmother to Lindsay? Will Ben and Mindy actually be endgame or will Danny come back and somehow they’ll fix their issues? Or will Mindy decide that she really doesn’t want to get married and that Leo is more than enough for her?

With the first episode of the final season of “The Mindy Project” currently available on Hulu, the time for answers is now.