Rolling "New Girl" televison show thread

her singing is still in the show. sorry!

Since pretty early on, like the first ep with lizzy caplan, they've done a kind of brilliant job of alternately critiquing/defending/ridiculing/embracing the 'adorkable zooey persona' that got the show on the air in the first place

This show is really great. I've been worried about the Nick/Jess storyline capsizing the whole thing ever since the Ross/Rachel-Sam/Diane dynamic first raised its head in season 1, but now I reckon they'll handle whatever comes inventively.

exactly. I was bummed at first, figured they'd put it off till later. Then I was like ok, they're going there, but it didn't work so now they've moved on and they'll eventually come back to it. Instead they're accepting it's there and just having fun playing with it.

yeah i'm fine w/ zooey now, which i couldn't have predicted even back when i started liking the show. i would love it if there were a perpetual new girl though. lol @ dan if he think big bang is gonna wrap after 8 seasons, which is kinda a shame cuz i would like to see cuoco working w/ better scripts but at the same time good for her for getting paid serious money which is what happens in the later seasons.

they're doing a better job w/ winston also. should i go back and watch the first season of this at some point? pretty big lizzy caplan fan fwiw.

I haven't seen an episode since "Table 34" but she definitely did it in "A Father's Love" and I think it also happened in "Pepperwood" and "Cooler"

i guess but doesn't it seem like the balance was real out of whack early on, when they seemed to want to define her as (among other things) 'this girl who sings everything!'? and it's gone from whatever that would be, as a trait of a character, to something more like… one affectation/quirk among many of one character among eccentric other characters

I also thought they'd toned down her character's 'quirkiness' quite a bit (including the singing) but they seemed to be bringing it back in "Quick-Hardening Caulk" (probably why it was slightly disappointing to me).

well she was under duress

real light touch with that torrent of dick jokes by the writers/cast, tho

torrent of dick jokes

i would have thought andy dick was passe by now.

it's called a 'callback', gramps

"not a cookie bar"

i used to be anti-zooey deschanel but with the backlash that came with her iphone commercial i became pro-zooey... it seemed like the only respectable position. i can't stand she and him but she is pretty good on this show.

the "ruh roh" closing this episode actually worked pretty well.

Another great episode of the best sitcom on tv.

Season finale was corny madcap classic.

v. solid ending

yeah if you'd told me 'schmidt breaks up the wedding' i would've groaned but they pulled it off well and even if 'the groom is even more relieved than cece the wedding is canceled' is a bit of a cheat at least the writers knew that breaking up a wedding is kinda a shitty thing to do and felt they had to deal w/ that problem. really effective stunt casting, laffed pretty hard when she was the other woman. pretty great season, i've long had this theory that second seasons of sitcoms are usually the best for a number of reasons (i've never really tested this theory and maybe it's just a sorta recent phenom also), this was a pretty great one. selzer otm above: this is the best sitcom on tv right now. starting to get the appeal of zooey but luckily hannah simone is there to remind that o right THAT, that's what a dream goddess looks like. so i should check out the first season?

at least the writers knew that breaking up a wedding is kinda a shitty thing to do and felt they had to deal w/ that problem.

OTM. It seemed clear enough to me beforehand that neither party really had his or her heart in the wedding so I didn't feel that cheated (although I was hoping that Chivrang [?] was really in love with a dude). Actually curious which way Schmidt is going to go. I thought it was pretty bold + commendable for them to have him get back with Elizabeth so I probably will feel cheated if he just decides "Cece". (I mean, it would have been pretty bold for the writers to fully commit to the arranged marriage as well.)

S2 has definitely been the superior season but s1 was pretty good after the first couple of episodes.

read an interview this morning w/ the creator/writer that had a funny quote about how in the original casting call the character of Nick said something like "is secretly the smartest person in the room" and the actor said "yeah, after casting me, you threw that idea out pretty quick"

good finale, though i do feel a bit uncomfortable with how cavalier they threw out the arranged marriage, funny cameo though. i did think to myself "wait... is that..."

winston was the MVP though, that guy is so good. happy how his obsession with pranks and being so awful at them became a thing

also i def. like the Rob Reiner casting as Jess' dad

really not looking forward to how they're gonna write off Merritt Weaver. don't see that going well

also i'm still laughing thinking about Cotton Eye Joe. "you're pumping your fist in the air right now!"

she's amazing in Nurse Jackie, was really glad to see her turn up in this.

also saw her recently in Tiny Furniture (as the college friend)

this thread is really hard to find

it's the old quotation bug w/ILX search

http://movies.nytimes.com/2013/08/23/movies/in-joe-swanbergs-drinking-buddies-couples-face-tests.html?src=dayp

nick is in this

the episode of The Writer's Room about New Girl is fun

the ep where she pretends 2 be 'katie' is v funny

I have to say, I recently re-watched all of season 1 on netflix and half of season 2 on hulu, and it's held up really well, all these years later. I mean, it's even funnier than I remember. I think it's hilarious, smart, edgy etc, I think it's the best sitcom in a long time and I think it's stature is going to grow as more people realize how goddamn good it is, and more people are going to start calling frittatas "egg pies".

agree, but didn't this show premiere less than two years ago?

joeks bro

some flashback 2 fat schmidt stuff makes me kinda :/

make that some most

yeah fatsuit jokes are rmde but they do manage to show the sweetness under the surface of schmidt there as well as the crazy insecurity that led to the douchebag he is today

finally getting round to catching up w/ this

cece's fiancee actually makes me want to throw up, can't wait til this dude gets jilted at the altar

oh boy just you wait.

you know, i actually felt bad for that character. i'm glad the show didn't make him a total monster, jerk, nerd, etc.

btw searching for "new girl" in quotes in the search screen does not find this thread, i guess because new girl is in quotes in the thread title? weird.

anyway, apparently hannah simone went to the same international school in new delhi that i went to, though she started a year after i left

so yeah ... i'm pretty great

Almost done rewatching the first two seasons and I have to say...it's just funnier and funnier. This will go down as one of the great sitcoms of all time.

premieres tonight. This show gives my life meaning.

it's the details. Like when Cece tells the story of losing her virginity to Mick Jagger and Schmidt screams "Beatlemania, Beatlemania".

The way they've mastered having 4 people talking at once each telling a different joke.

i'm pretty excited for the premiere tonight, probably my current favorite sitcom. i'm glad at least one i really like seems to be a decent enough ratings hit. i'm still not over happy endings going away.

Well, then you should be happy that "Coach" is coming back to New Girl for at least a visit. If you don't know the story: http://newgirl.wikia.com/wiki/Coach

Nice for New Girl to at least have an arc where there isn't just one token black character, but two pretty hilarious ones. At least Winston is to some degree. Coach obv never got a chance to spread his wings.

The way they've mastered having 4 people talking at once each telling a different joke.

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 21:54 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah this is p much it. it's extremely well edited

They moved this to Mondays? Ah well, I'll catch it on demand

Today is Tuesday.

I am losing my mind, sorry

Some great stuff tonight. Held up.