Mindy Kaling and ‘Not Suitable For Work’ Boss on Depicting the Gen-Z Workforce Onscreen and Setting Up Numerous Love Triangles: ‘You Want to Keep People Guessing’

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for the three episode-premiere of “Not Suitable For Work,” now streaming on Hulu.

Let the record show that Mindy Kaling is well aware of the possibility of people looking up “Mindy Kaling NSFW” and finding “inappropriate photos” of the actor/writer/producer, rather than information about her newest TV show, “Not Suitable For Work,” now streaming on Hulu. Originally titled “Murray Hill” after the Manhattan neighborhood the show is set in, Kaling agreed to switch the name to “Not Suitable For Work” after Hulu exec Craig Erwich (and B.J. Novak) told her the title was “boring and needs to change.”

“As a show creator, when you have to thank the literal head of your network, the person who made you make a change, and everyone likes it better, it’s not good for the ego,” Kaling tells Variety with a laugh. “But thank you, Craig.”

Joined by Kaling’s long-time collaborator Charlie Grandy as showrunner, Kaling views “NSFW” — which focuses on ambitious 20somethings in New York City — as the third installment in a series loosely based on her life, following the high school drama of “Never Have I Ever” and collegiate chaos of “The Sex Lives of College Girls.”