Any time you throw out words like “ Kate Hudson ,” “new Netflix comedy show,” and “ Mindy Kaling ,” people are going to be eager to see what’s up. Enter Running Point, the half-hour series led by Hudson and co-created by Kaling, which is soon to premiere on the streaming service and have the whole town talking.

In Mindy Kaling's new Netflix series, “Running Point, ” Kate Hudson stars as Isla Gordon, the new president of the Los Angeles Waves, a pro basketball team that's been run by her family for years. Hudson’s character has to prove herself as a woman in a man’s world not only to her passed-over brothers,