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New Girl - The Show You Should Be Watching Or I Will Kill You
ElJeffe
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So, New Girl. Starting September 20th (that's a Tuesday). Starring Zooey Deschanel.
This show is hilarious and you need to watch it. The pilot is available through Comcast On Demand and is probably viewable elsewhere, but I am too lazy to figure it out. The premise is that Jess (Deschanel) has broken up with her boyfriend after he cheated on her and is seeking to rebuild her life, starting by procuring a new apartment with three other guys. Think Three's Company as written by Tina Fey.
Deschanel is fantastic, and the rest of the cast is entertaining enough. The show definitely holds potential, and if it fails I blame you for not watching it hard enough. Yes, you, right there. You bastard.
Pretend I put in a bunch of photos of the cast or whatever and that this is not a lazy, crappy thread.
Discuss!
This show is hilarious and you need to watch it. The pilot is available through Comcast On Demand and is probably viewable elsewhere, but I am too lazy to figure it out. The premise is that Jess (Deschanel) has broken up with her boyfriend after he cheated on her and is seeking to rebuild her life, starting by procuring a new apartment with three other guys. Think Three's Company as written by Tina Fey.
Deschanel is fantastic, and the rest of the cast is entertaining enough. The show definitely holds potential, and if it fails I blame you for not watching it hard enough. Yes, you, right there. You bastard.
Pretend I put in a bunch of photos of the cast or whatever and that this is not a lazy, crappy thread.
Discuss!
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Whatcha gonna do JEFFE
Line up for me to pee on you.
That.
but what if I make doe eyes at you or go "awah wah wah" while moving my glasses back and forth
Because it was really good? And really hit on the feelings involved in that situation?
but they're listening to every word I say
Also http://www.hulu.com/watch/276685/new-girl-pilot
oh, the show. dunno.
I have to say, I kinda dig it. Needs to pick up some speed a little bit to form a whole opinion, but it's Zooey.
What time is it?
The time of my life
I watched the pilot and I don't currently have a reason to think it actually will be good, though. Didn't think many of the jokes were funny, it kinda feels like they're trying too hard. Which doesn't sound fair, I just don't know how else to describe it right now.
Edit: Let me expand on that. I think they're trying too hard to be "funny" without really selling the premise and characters. That wouldn't normally put me off a pilot episode really, if it weren't for the fact that they made me want to put funny in quotes. I'm getting a big wiff of LOOK HOW QUIRKY off of it. Jeffe, you invoke Tina Fey, but these people don't really seem to grasp what makes her writing funny.
Anyway, that's just where I'm at with it right now, I'm not gonna completely judge the thing just on the pilot. I'll give it a few episodes to correct.
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Well.
"STOP IT"
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Nah, it's the equivalent of putting a dollar in the jar.
I didn't feel like the show was even about the "new girl." It just felt like each scene was some sort of vehicle for schmidt (Max Greenfield) to be sexist in some way. Then you've got Coach, who I thought had a couple good jokes, and then the other male character who wasn't really funny or interesting or enough of a foil to temper schmidt's offensiveness.
I probably wont be checking out any other episodes.
loved 500 Days of Summer
I may give this a shot
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It was about as convincing as Rachel Leigh Cook in She's All That being a dorky loser.
Pretty much my feeling on it. That and the 'tried too hard thing'.
Wish the show all the best though, I don't like Two and a Half Men, or Big Bang Theory, or How I Met Your Mother, and look how those are doing!
In good company (I suppose) from my perspective.
But she had a ponytail and glasses. And Liked Arts! How much more dorky looser can one person be?
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Agreeing with this.
... I thought this was the line for getting peed on by Zooey Deschanel. No wonder I was first in line
Oh cruel Universe, why must thou torment my very soul!!
*shakes fist into air*
It was pretty decent for a pilot. I'll give it a shot, but something just felt off about it. We'll see if that feeling goes away once they start honing the writing. Losing Wayans won't help, though. I like him.
Everyone has to choose one line or the other.
You chose... poorly.
If it's a choice between being peed on by Zooey Deschanel or YOU, I think everyone here would choose Zooey Deschanel. It's kind of ridiculous to suggest otherwise.
No.
*shakes fist again at Universe*
I have read the same things. The way I understand it is that Wayans did the New Girl pilot as a kinda safety in case Happy Endings didn't get picked up, and his contract stipulated as such, so when that show got picked up, he had to drop out of New Girl. The weird thing is that they still show him in the promos.
Show was alright, I can see it getting better over time, and I do like the chemistry between the three male leads and Zooey.
Deschanel is typecast as a girl who's meant to be quirky because she says she's quirky and does goofy dances from time to time. All the characters are paper thin archetypes and the whole thing feels rushed. It's as though a group of marketers formulated the concept and pushed it through production as fast as humanly possible without bothering to spend much time on pesky things like writing.
Sorry, Jeffe, gotta tell it like it is.
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Apparently I had seen the original promo materials/commercials and he had caught one of the more recent ones, with the replacement dude. I finally saw one of the replacement dude commercials and narrowly resisted the urge to gloat (I was totally right, it indeed was Wayans--they just switched him out late).
The show's good, though?