Zooey Deschanel Is This Fall's New Girl
The Fall season of new television is upon us and amidst a sea of returning favorites and well promoted new series, I find myself surprisingly recommending The New Girl as one to watch.
Yes, I know what you are saying to yourself right now… the promo clips for that show were so terrible! You’re right, the previews for this show were so terrifically badly cut and put together that after having watched the pilot the other evening I had to scratch my head and wonder where in the hell did the show-runners managed to get such incoherent and discombobulated footage from? I suppose this just gives credence to the notion that the art of show promotion is a craft not well honed by mainstream television in the era of the cheap and easy to produce and market reality show.
My criticism of the show’s promotion now being clearly established, The New Girl is indeed a good show, or perhaps more appropriately a good vehicle from which the crafty cute icon of our generation, Zooey Deschanel can impart her quirky nerdy charm on America. It’s the sort of show that is subtly comical for both men and women, without being blatant about either approach. Sure there are plenty of clichés on both sides of the gender fence here but the way in which the show goes about creating quips and dialogue does much to dismiss the more generic aspects of the show and reinforce the dynamic.
I’m still trying to wrap my head around it all, but the show just surprisingly works and from what we’ve seen in the pilot looks even more promising as the season plays out. It’s got the core elements for comedic success; Zooey’s character is cute, nerdy and in spite of her perhaps unrealistically good looks she’s tragically unhip and single.
The New Girl Airing Tuesdays @ 9/8C on Fox
Meanwhile Zooey’s foil is her character’s best friend; a model who is tragically hot, snarky and intolerant of men including the new roommates. Then we have the three roommates, a group who when combined represent the folly and successes of everyman middle America. Realistically everyone involved is flawed in some way and while leading averagely normal lives the world they inhabit it neither unrealistic nor realistically overburdened. TV is after all about escapism and this nerd-fantasy manages to deliver un-ostentatiously on that premise.
Someone asked me the other day, after having watched the show what one element that made me laugh stood out most in my mind; simple, the “douchebag jar.”
A native of Tampa, FL Robert is the presiding editor and co-owner of both Down Shift Magazine and DS Holdings, LLC. A proud alumnus of the University of South Florida’s class of 2005 Robert is active in the Tampa Bay community and when not residing at his home in Tampa, FL enjoys traveling throughout the United States and abroad covering the motorsports and cultural phenomenon that shape our modern automotive enthusiast community.
