Review: In 'Not Suitable for Work,' Mindy Kaling couples rom-com antics with professional ambition

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And just like that, here comes another coterie of young people to make some of us feel old and some of us feel seen.Following not exactly in the recent footsteps of “Adults” and “I Love L.A.,” “Not Suitable for Work,” premiering Tuesday on Hulu, is an amiable, sweet-tempered romantic ensemble comedy with a heftier than usual emphasis on professional ambition.

(See title, above.) Created by Mindy Kaling, it’s set in New York, the city that never sleeps, not in order to party, but to get something on somebody’s desk first thing in the morning.As on “Friends,” the main characters occupy two New York apartments separated by a hallway.In one live Josh (Jack Martin), Davis (Will Angus), and Kel (Nicholas Duvernay); Kel has known Josh since they were 12; Davis and Josh were in college together.

In the other, we find Abby (Avantika), who as the curtain rises is being joined by AJ (Ella Hunt), her college friend, replacing Abby’s boyfriend, who moved to Nashville to be a country singer.If the layout is familiar, the less than trendy neighborhood in which it’s set — Murray Hill, east of Midtown, over by the United Nations — is novel.

Various sources describe it as popular with “recent college graduates” and “young professionals,” which tracks.(The show does go downtown to Katz’s Delicatessen, twice, though perhaps that’s just because it’s a rom-com landmark, where Meg Ryan faked an orgasm in “When Harry Met Sally…”)Coincidentally — though is there really any coincidence where an all-powerful authorial hand is involved — most are beginning new jobs.

Each, in their way, is ambitious — no room for slackers here! This isn’t Brooklyn! Abby is the new assistant to celebrity stylist Vanessa (Constance Wu).Kel, who wants to be an actor, finds a job as a substitute teacher in a posh private girls’ school, through the offices of Kate (Ego ...