New Girl

The pilot is avibable Comcast's On Demand thing, and I watched it. I liked, it wasn't impressive, but it could have been worse. I liked Deschanel's character, she was sympathetic and charming, but the guys seemed a bit too shallow as characters, and the cutaways got annoying, although cutaways are a bit of a peeve for me unless they work well, like in 30 Rock or Arrested Devolopment.

It doesn't look like one of the most promising shows of the fall, but I do have hope that it'll get better as it moves along. I have hope that it gets better around Episode 5 or so.

The fact that the hipster scum on the AV Club detest this show make me like it even more.

The AV Club also thought that Flipped was a worse movie than Vampires Suck.

I thought it was kind of cute, but Jess felt a bit too Manic Pixie Dream Girl, and I would've liked Schmidt to be a bit more characterized.

Coach is cool, but Brad is better and Nick is actually the best out of the three men.

The female friend, on the other hand, seems to have been taken directly from Sex And The City, and that is not a compliment.

Over all, I think it can evolve into a cutesy sitcom, and we know we're gonna wait for episodes and episodes for Jess and Schmidt to get over it and get together...

I just hope New Girl doesn't do like Zooey's sister Emily's show, Bones and tease us for years and years...

Oh, and one last thing; was it only me that had the impression that were was something a bit more than bromance between Nick and 'The Schmidt' at first?

edited 14th Sep '11 5:15:40 AM by PersonalPOV

I'm still stuck at the part where Zooey is in a Big Bang Theory/Three's Company ripoff. I thought her career was on the upswing.

That honestly was the first thing that came to mind. Not that the show is bad, but I'm not a huge fan of Zooey Deschanel because she plays the same character in every movie more or less.

Saw it on Hulu. Could be better. Coach has supposedly been recast; because, Wayans is on Happy Endings. There were some odd visual elements in the pilot(multiple urinals in an apartment bathroom, Zooey showering in a bathing suit). I like Zooey, but the timing on this show is a bit off. I'll give it a few episodes to see if they fix it.

I love Zooey!! ^___^ /huge (500) Days fan

I'm...not liking this show so far. I'm sure Zoe Deschanel is a perfectly fine person, but she just does not emote well on screen, and the writers just seem to be trying far too hard to have her character come off as "whimsical." As a consequence of this, none of the character interaction comes off as organic or believable at all.

It's certainly possible that they could turn it around at this point, but as of yet, I didn't particularly like what I saw.

x5 More like a reversal since she's the geek and they're the "normal people" although each and every one of them is at least as screwed up as her if not more so.

I'm meh on the show. I thought that it would be annoying from the ads, but after seeing it, it wasn't annoying enough to make you dive for the remote. The guys were kinda funny. Coach is fine.

I want to have a positive attitude about this because I thought Zooey needs to break into something big in order to raise her popularity. Now this is the first sitcom that she stars in, yet the writing isn't the best it can be.

I watched one-and-a-bit episodes. It is awful.

This is kind of what you would get if a computer spat out an algorithm for a cliche sitcom.

Though to be fair I would describe most of the fall lineup in those terms. (Body of Proof, ugh)

I need to watch this because of the cuteness that is Miss Deschanel

I actually like the show. Just saw episodes one and two on Hulu, and laughed a lot! I thought I wouldn't like the ~*~quirky girl~*~ shtick but I find it not so bad.

I'm about two episodes behind on this show after a short marathon on my DVR, and I have really enjoyed it so far. My wife and I have had several laugh out loud moments, especially on the episode where Justin Long's character makes an appearance.

Zooey Deschanel is the perfect actress for the character she plays.

I watched the first episode last night, maybe my expectations were too high but it was a bit Meh.

Hopefully the writers are still finding their feet, but they seriously need to drop the fast paced 'punch-lining' of gags. Not every scene needs to be cut off with a hurried visual gag when they reach the two minute mark. Back in the day Everybody Loves Raymond, would have scenes going for five even ten minutes without feeling the need for a cut away. That took some real fucking commitment to story and New Girl needs to show a level of restraint with it's pacing if it wants the audience to have any sort of emotional investment to the show.

On the up side the characters are sympathetically flawed and likeable rather then being generically nice or 'comically' dickish to each other and who doesn't have a soft spot for Zooey Deschanel? So I will give the show a few more episodes before I come to a final say on it.

edited 22nd Jan '12 5:25:19 PM by joeyjojo

So I was kind of begininng to lose interest in this show, but I just watched the Valentines Day episode and awesome.