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New Girl - The Show You Should Be Watching Or I Will Kill You
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I like that for some reason. It makes it feel more like a modern sitcom and less like Dharma & Greg.
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Nick behind the fancy desk is goddamn fantastic.
Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
Schmidt is becoming one of the best characters on TV.
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God I love Schmidt.
"We made a caramel miracle!"
JAR!
Yes, exactly! The style of comedy, with little one-liners that are meant to be forgotten does a great job of keeping it "at least funny."
Looks like someone sussed out (or made up) rules to True American.
Either this show was incredibly funny all along and I'm an idiot.
Or I recently hit my head even though I haven't noticed it and I'm just under the mistaken assumption that this show is really funny and will also die from some serious head injury.
So. good.
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I think the early episodes weren't as rocky as some shows' early episodes, but it definitely needed to get up some steam. Much funnier once the characters got past the introduction stage and the actors got a chance to show off their comedy chops.
Hah, well Winston is more or less the straight man, most of the time, to everyone elses "crazy as hell" personalities, so I can see why people wouldn't find him interesting. I think it's more that the quirks the writers gave him (former basketball player, former 'playa', loved his shitty car) just aren't as funny. Hell, he even has to play the straight man to his new nutjob boss.
And yes, Lizzy Caplan leaving was sad... because damn, indeed.
And I agree that Winston isn't that great. I understand the straight man role. And I agree that this show is wacky enough that it definitely needs some grounding. But Winston does a very poor job at that. And it seems like they're occasionally trying to make him crazy too. I feel like they don't know what they want to do with Winston, and his personality shifts a lot from episode to episode.
Nick is the best. When they let him do his thing he kills it.
Look at how naive and foolish I was back in October.
I am ashamed now.
There was a great article over on Salon about Schmidt and the growth of the show titled "New Girl's New Manhood":
Based on my Google search of "salon schmidt new girl": http://www.salon.com/2012/03/27/new_girls_new_manhood/
Looks like the post was the entire article.
Here you go (link), it wasn't working earlier this morning due to Salon going over to their new site design (hence why the blatant copy/paste) but it's working now.
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I liked most everything, but I thought Nick just killed it this episode.
"Now GIT! GIT off my farm! You used to be my best friend but I don't even know you!"
I said it earlier on this very page. When they let Nick do his thing, he is the funniest part of the show. The episodes where they just turn him loose have been my favorite parts of the show.
Schmidt has become the charming character that you want to root for, and he is definitely capable of carrying episode plots. But Nick brings the funny in a way that none of the rest of them can even hope to match.
I thought Schmidt and Nick's sexy talk would be the funniest thing that happened on tv in the entire season amongst all shows, but then the last episode happened. Nadia was hilarious. And then Schmidt broke his penis and something amazing happened.
SODOMISE INTOLERANCE
Tide goes in. Tide goes out.
Week to week I'm so conflicted. Nick and Schmidt are great. Jess is endearing but she is a very poor main character. She doesn't carry the show very well at all, and all the best episodes seem to be the ones where they put most of the focus on Nick and Schmidt. Its pretty sad that I find the Schmidt/Cece relationship to be more interesting than anything having to do with Jess, and Cece started out as nothing more than a 2 minutes per episode minor role appearance.
This week's episode was pretty weak I thought, because it was about Jess. Jess episodes just aren't that great. And the constant and weekly change to Winston is getting tiresome. The character has no personality, because every week he's a totally different guy.
Best line of the episode:
(Happy Endings reference)
I also agree that Nick and Schmidt are the best draw of the show at this point, though sometimes Zooey has some funny ass lines. When she was trying to get Cece to go running before and she was like "I'm listening to Diane Keaton's autobiography and she just got to first wives club and it's getting me pumped!" made me laugh my ass off.
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I thought the Winston stuff fell flat. I've talked about Winston before, but I'll say it again. He's a terrible character, and its no fault of the actor. The problem lies entirely with the writers. Winston has a completely different personality from week to week. In this week's episode, the whole afraid of the dark thing was so out of the blue and so irrelevant to the rest of the episode that they should have cut the entire thing. In fact, they could have cut Winston completely out of the episode and it would not have changed anything else one bit. That's how worthless he was.
Usually Schmidt is one of the high points of the show. But this episode he was actually a low point. The whole Schmidt/Cece B-Plot of this episode was completely out of place. With all the Nick drama that was going on, adding more drama on top of that was just too much. Not to mention the fact that they literally just got together as a real couple last episode.
This whole episode, to me, felt like a cliche of a dozen other romantic comedies. Breakups, relationship status changes, and all that seem to be par for the course anymore with shows. Why can't the Schmidt/Cece relationship be a feature of the show, rather than an ongoing plot point?
And why did the writers do a fake-out with the A-Plot of Nick moving out? They never even explored the possibility of Nick moving out. He was literally only gone for a matter of hours. He didn't even stay 1 night with Caroline.
The whole episode was a mess. A very poorly conceived, poorly written mess. Not a good way to end a season. I honestly don't care about what happens next season because they didn't give me anything to care about.
It's like they wrote the pilot, then the finale, then learned how to make the show great by writing all the episodes in between.
So this is a thing.
Also, the show was back on last night and we should totally talk about it.