New Girl comes back on British screens tonight on E4, and after the show’s stellar first season, we can’t wait to get back in the apartment with Jess, Nick, Schmidt and Winston.
So before we get you humming the show’s delightfully quirky theme tune all day long, we’re looking at the three biggest reasons why we love New Girl quite so much.
Right Amount Of Quirk
Let’s face it, too much Zooey Deschanel brand of quirk at ionce can be bad for your health. The actress has made a career out of making the ‘manic pixie dream girl’ an art form, and it would have been easy to think that an entire series of her would get to cutesy overload.
Thankfully, even the creators of the show know this, so while Zooey’s able to bounce around with oversized glasses and polka dots on everything, the show has a great habit of having the other characters call her out on her oddness.
Thankfully, it’s not just on free spirit and three sticks in the mud either. In their own ways, each of them is just as crazy as the other. It makes for one of the best balanced foursomes in comedy.
Schmidt
While the show might be titled after her and Deschanel’s name may be first on the credits sequence, but the real star of this show is Max Greenfield as the brilliantly complicated and hilarious Schmidt.
Schmidt is a character that could so easily have been a one note cliché, but thanks to the great performance of Greenfield and some cracking writing, Schmidt has become not only one of the best characters in comedy, but one of the best on American TV.
From the ‘d*****bag’ jar that is almost always full to his horrendous sexual antics, Schmidt is a character that can have us laughing with just a look and one that gets even better in the second series of the show.
The Jess-Nick Relationship
When you have two actors and characters with as much natural chemistry and spark as Jake Johnson and Zooey Deschanel do has Nick and Jess, most sitcoms would have had the two get together already.
Not New Girl though, which delights in the four flatmates having merely platonic relationships and creates some great moments of life when you’re not all swooning over each other, something that happens way to often in the American comedy.
While the spectre of Jess and Nick’s respective love lives are a near constant, the show’s handling of the pair is utterly admirable.
With a third series of the show already given the green light by US network Fox, we can look forward to a lot more time with one of the oddest groups of friends on TV.
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