The Day New Girl Died
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An exploration into the history of New Girl, the aspects that made it special, and the one episode that sparked the show's downfall to mediocrity.
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Can You do "The Day Arrested Development was Born" ?
How dare you mention chemistry and not mention Winston, Cece, and their classic mess arounds?
right! i loved them so much dude, they had the funniest friendship
That had to be one of the best ideas of the series. Two characters you just didn’t expect to have a hilarious dynamic like that.
Much better than winston & coach mess-arounds 👍
THANK YOU!!!!
haha yesssssssss CLASSIC CECE WINNIE MESSAROUND
This show is the definition of a comfort watch. It's just so easy and fun to enjoy and relate to.
on my 24th rewatch 😭😭
Exactly. I don't think it's the funniest sitcom by any stretch, but there's something so relaxing about it.
i stopped counting how much i rewatched it, i just chose the best episodes from every season until the end and then i go back to the beginning, it's very comforting just to think that somewhere sometime it's possible to have such a beautiful friendship with lots of great people and have all these incredible experiences , i won't stop watching it 😅
My number one background noise show
Same, every day from an 2 years i am watching this while eating alone. I like to watch it, its my comfort show....❤
Kinda funny how this starts off by saying Jess is the worst character of the show just to say the show died the moment she left.
right
She is the glue, but like when you fix things with glue, it's not the best looking part of the final product
@@lizvasquez2026 well said and I agree completely
Yeah bad takes all round
@nelsongodoy5101 she was the straight man. Without her it would be a mess.
I will say that the scene with the little girl and Schmidt about "a white man broke in today" is my favorite scene in the entire show! I think the little girls reaction and her being chill and Schmidt exaggerating is so funny to me and makes me laugh so much every time I watch it!
Schmidt flipping out made basically every scene better. ha
That scene is great, the last season is my favorite
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EVRYTHING about this scene is perfect. And the social commentary, in line with the times. Perfect
Agreed. That scene always kills me
New Girl was always inconsistent and we all knew it but the highs were always good enough to make the lows not a big deal. It also ended on a high note, and more than most shows of that time period it captured a generational vibe perfectly-where many shows of the time featured wealthy successful people (i.e. Modern Family, or even The Office honestly), New Girl was like an inverse Friends where everyone was Phoebe and no one was Monica. Everyone in New Girl struggled and floundered and coming out right after the '08 crash, predicting gig economics, Craigslist housing, etc, it hit all the right marks. It took what, 7-8 years for most characters to find some kind of peaceful middle class comfort. Anyway, it was an uneven show and I don't think any fans would argue against that, but at the end it was not too crass, not too dated, not too mean, not too saccharine, just baaaarely the right balance of cringe in the cringe era of tv. The perfect low stakes cathartic comfort food.
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I think what people don’t realise about sitcoms, is that characters need to be problematic, not only to be relatable, but to drive the show forward. Think from a writers perspective how quickly a show would end if all characters were emotionally/mentally healthy. Shows don’t last 8 seasons if the characters are perfect.
Have you ever noticed a lot of sitcoms involve a minor problem that could be solved with good communication but decide to escalate it and it becomes the plot of the episode?
I think the main thing that causes situations in a situational comedy is the characters themselves.
Bad take. Jess was the perfect person to be the main character of the show. New girl without Jess is nothing.
Preach
We seen New Girl without Jess, it would not had word
agreed this actually made me mad and struck me as a lil sexist
@@aarushifire I agree 😭 the show was about the dynamics between the friend group with Jess in the center from the start, so it's pointless to watch if you hate her... it's a very odd take and it made me unsubscribe lol
@@aarushifire Something about the guy, you can tell he was raised by an overbearing parent
And yet, when Zooey left the show briefly and Jess was on jury duty, the show absolutely fell apart. As much as she doesn't have all the laughs, she really is the glue of the show and carries it. Also she definitely has her funny moments.
This so much. People complained so much while she was gone
Schmidt out.. To be honest I think all the characters are the glue that holds the show together, they all compliment each others characters
The thing is, Jess started as the lead and ended up being the mom/heart of the group. She wasn't the funniest but her tendency to put her nose in other people's business created very funny situations
I have the same thing with Michael in the office I find him way more annoying than funny but the show dropped off massively after he left
I think she had the moment that made out loud the most. It was the Sweat Swuit pitch.
Aw man, I really hoped this would be a video about how Jess was not the same character at the start and at the end, and how she did end up becoming the person they relied on to look after them (which was made apparent by the show in the scenes before she left for jury duty). That they ditched her character and the clear potential for growth once we get to mid-late seasons. New Girl never died, but the considerate writing of Jess did, slowly. Also I thought Raegan was kind of cool! But the way the exit of Jess was framed made her role in the group - and how differing that was from her character initially - apparent. It's actually kind of sad!
Ew i hated raisin
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I hear a lot of people say that Jess is annoying or the worst character and that is BAFFLING to me. like are we watching the same show?? she brings so much life & energy to the show, i almost stopped watching it altogether when she was gone
I’m with you. I’ve always liked Jess. Schmidt is my favorite character, but Jess may be second for me.
Same, how can people hate this sweet woman, people honestly baffle me
I think Jess has some annoying moments, like the whole thing with the hutch and Schmidt's coffee grinder still burns me up, but the idea that she is the worst character is laughable. I mean none of them are bad characters but Schmidt in particular has done way worse stuff than Jess.
I think the show realized this about jess and when she left for jury duty, they noticed Jess was the glue for the gang in the show. This was important for everything after because when she came back, SHE became the background character who HELPED guide the others to their better end. Without her, most of them wouldn't have changed to what they became. I think she didn't change because in the show, it was kind of showing that she didn't need to change. What she brought the group was parts of them they needed. Hope that makes sense.
I gotta disagree with that point. I actually liked Reagen being introduced, while it was obvious she was written as a sex object & was added as a fill-in for Jess. I saw her as a breath of fresh air, after seasons 3 & 4, the group had gone through so many weird scenarios that it was nice to see a normal person get thrown into the loft & see from an outsider’s perspective of the gang. Which I thought made the show funnier on rewatches, especially in episode 10, “goosebumps walkaway.”
I liked seeing Nick try to get out of his way to get the girl, given all the insecurities & self-doubts he has. I’m a big fan of Schmidt & Cece getting married & trying to live the married life, led to my favorite bit, “Are you the criminals? From the Stattistics?!” Also having Winston become more self independent & self confident in himself was great.
I was not a fan of Nick & Jess as a couple. Even when they were at their best in season 2, I did not like the idea of them as a couple, so when Reagan & Nick became one, my thought was they’re gonna try to move away from Jess but it became obvious after episode 14 of season 6, that they had no character depth for Reagan & I was sad. I thought see could’ve been a great side character for Nick’s growth
I disagree about Jess, I thought she was grating in the beginning when they played up her adorkable traits but once they tone down the quirkyness, i thought she could be very funny, i love the way she delivers her lines and she's good at physical comedy too.
Overrall i don't think the show could have existed without her, supporting cast is great but a lot of highlights do come from Jess being a foil to other people's antics. Although the writing of her character did downgrade in the later seasons, the writers just took way too much time to get her and Nick back together and her attitude towards Nick in season 6 was just painful to watch. Jess's thing was always that she was stronger than she looked and her determination and willingness to stand up for herself was a great character trait to oppose her dorkynes. She became spineless in season 5 and her character became so painful to watch. The episode when she tried to get Nick and Cece together on a misunderstanding was so frustrating, who would try to make their ex and best friend get together ?? She was never that clueless or that selfless before.
Also yes Reagan was boring and overstayed her welcome, that whole situation with Jess and Nick was another can of worms, she had more chemistry with Zoey than anyone else. They should have brought back Lizzy Caplan.
And I don’t think there was a day new girl really died, sure the episodes were uneven but season 7 was really good and it should have been longer
Absolutely agree on all points. Also, my favorite Raegan scenes are the ones Megan plays opposite Zooey. They have awesome chemistry and made me laugh a lot. I don't see Raegan having that kind of chemistry with any of the other characters. I always wished Raegan would stay but just so that I could see those two characters together more lol
Some of my favorite moments happened later in the series as they developed Winston as a character more, because he was my favorite. I also really liked the dynamic that he had with Cece, and I liked his relationship with Aly a lot too. I would definitely agree that the show definitely suffered after Nick and Jess got together though. And by the time they did finally get married, I was kinda over it.
Some other channel made the comparison between New Girl and Friends, saying they're basically the same show but for different generations, and it was pretty spot on.
Yeah totally. Friends is about your 20s and New Girl is about your 30s. Which is an interesting take on this generation since they basically touch on the same story beats that happen 10 years later.
If friends is for gen x and new girl is for millenialds, what is the show for zoomers? Has it come out yet?
it became that! but first season was a really unique concept. jess was this really strange and bizarre person who drove everyone crazy and it was kinda hilarious. they went from live action cartoon to full on romantic sitcom ensemble. like friends, HIMYM, or saved by the bell the college years. dating and love and all those trappings. blech. such a shame because it really started as something that was so not that.
@@harrylane4 i don't think we're old enough yet! whatever that show is, it'll probably come out in the very late 2020s or the 2030s
It really isn't the humour is v different
I liked the last season. It was a nice wrap up for the entire show. It was still funny and had great scenes. I liked that the charachters were further in their life.
ah white man broke in today. A WHITE MAN absolutely best scene
honestly I watched it all the way through and never fell out of love with it
I think this whole video is an obvious ploy to generate engagement through a contrary perspective. Obviously Jess is great, and critical to the show. OP is just hitting a hornets nest for views. Transparent and pedantic.
A character being hateable doesn't make them the worst. I hate Schmidt being obliviously evil sometimes but the fact that they were able to get me to have strong feelings, even negative ones, about a fictional character, is a sign of a strong character. Jess is great because of how she doesn't change despite pressure to fall in line. Her individualism is a strength.
I still well up with tears when Schmidt gets out the elevator for his loft wedding with Cece
me too....
i was so mad he was on a plane
i don’t care, i loved this whole show and i’ve watched it on repeat many times ❤
nailed it.
I just binged new girl and I honestly enjoyed every single episode and it's one of the most entertaining shows I've watched. The cast is written so well and all the dynamics are hilarious. Nick is my favorite character.
RIGHT! I’ve watched the show fully 2 times now! All episodes are great! Yes some slower ones but even the slow ones have funny scenes! I love Nick to but Schmitt is just hilarious🤣 Nick and Schmitt are definitely the best duo in the show
I truly think the show was great all the way through, so many other shows are unwatchable in their last seasons and theirs has some of my favorites
I agree with some of you points. New girl had rough patch for sure (parts season 3 and season 6) put I never thought it ever truly died.I actually loved the Reagan episodes I thought she was a great addition and a welcome change from Jess and change the group in a interesting way. I also thought Megan fox was great in the role
My thoughts exactly
Agreeeee! I was skeptical about Reagan but absolutely wish she stayed on for her brief time in the show
Yeah
Winston reflecting about the world in the ac vents will always be peak New Girl 😂
Reagan's Jeremiah rat voice was funny, and when she was spraying people with a fire extinguisher fighting to buy an air conditioner during the heat wave. She also has funny moments of pointing out how crazy the group dynamic was to an outsider. Her under reaction to Nick running, or thinking they bought Schmidt the Haberman chair as a birthday present but it was just random.
Having watched Moonlighting, the show didn't die because the leads got together. It died because the stars got too big for it. They were both off doing their own projects and didn't have time for the show, so the characters weren't on screen as much and it was clear they weren't committed to the show anymore. The writers had to rely on the less strong and interesting side characters and nobody cared about them. I think if the actors hadn't become stars, especially Willis, then maybe they might have been able to explore the relationship more. As it happened, they didn't and the show gave birth to the Moonlighting Curse.
Honestly, i love this show because every character brings so much to the table. I don't think that Jess is a bad character, and i don't think she is as selfish as you make her up to be. Like ... The way dhe acts when she realizes she still loves Nick, but he is with Reagan is the complete opposite of selfish. I think she is not perfect, but definitely not bad enough to place in the same group as say, Carry from SATC. I think she is just guilty of not being the main character, which i think it speaks to the writers being so good at developing the supporting cast. That's why we dont miss Jess... Not because she's awful, but because the rest if them are so good on their own
this show is my comfort show. I love Jess and every other characters in the show, it's a show that focuses on real struggles. they aren't rich and have many difficulties in life until things work out. this show is a show you can go back to over and over again, don't even know how many times I've watched this show but it's many, many times.
i feel like you guys didn’t rlly get why the show was good. all the romantic sitcom tension has become a little played out these days, and that’s not why most people watched it. it was good because of its style of comedy. i agree that jess was the weakest character, but the supporting cast was just so vibrant and full of character in each scene that i haven’t rlly seen anything else like it on television. their chemistry and timing was just perfect, and that’s why New Girl pulled through for me season after season
I have been a fan of New Girl since it started. I made my husband watch it with me because I thought he would like it and he did until Nick and Jess broke up. After that episode he was so mad they broke up he wouldn't watch anymore. I definitely agree with your points. I love the show so much but it's easy to see the flaws and where it started to go down hill.
The way my jaw dropped when you said Jess is the worst when middle school me formed my entire personality around her for a while.
This is why you need to have planning. If you are always creating bigger story arcs there will always be stuff to finish.
I was just watching a Gilmore Girls panel and the creator/writer Amy Sherman-Palladino had some interesting things to say about this. She was asked why it took so long for Lorelai and Luke to get together, and why in general stories moved so slowly. She said that once you make a step forward in a storyline, many other possible storylines are suddenly closed. You have to think carefully what you’re losing, and what new paths you may create. She learnt this while writing for Roseanne: “Make the small big, make the big small.”
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I think I actually agree with the Reagan episode being the beginning of the end and I didn't think I would lol I will say, my roommate and I will make note when Jess actually has a good line bc they're so rare.
That was kind of the point of Regan, she was used to help make us miss Jess. Disagreed entirely, Cece and Schmidt getting married was one of my favorite story arcs. The nature of network television is why New Girl seems to lose something toward the end. They really didn’t need that many episodes to get everyone to their happy ending but the episode counts in the final seasons were still too many.
Tries to fix a bad situation but makes everything worse is the plot of every sitcom ever.
“Jess sucked but when she left it ruined the show.” I feel like hating on Jess is the social norm, but you can’t deny her dynamics with the rest of the characters help them all shine.
Think it may have died before then. Also, I disagree with Jessica being the worst character on the show. It was definitely Coach. Or at least, he was the most boring which is a higher crime to me than being annoying and static.
Interesting interesting. They probably just didn't know what to do with his character when he came back. I might've given him a pass just because he's so damn funny on Happy Endings and so I was probably viewing him with that same lens.
I thought Coach wasn’t great in the pilot and his reintroduction episode. But season four Coach was downright hilarious, especially in Spider Hunt.
no way this chick said COACH was the WORST CHARACTER ON THE SHOW.. hold me back hold me back
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@@Kiyot_ we’re gonna fight bro 🤣
ngl i (respectfully) strongly disagree. i dont think i ever really got annoyed with jess, and she just ended up playing the straightman a lot, so doesnt have a bunch of oneliners. also jess and cece had such incredible friendship chemistry, and such fun stories! idk maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but jess was great!
And I disagree with a lot of the comments in this section I feel like new girl was actually pretty solid all the way through, I've watched It a few times And each time I feel Like it still holds up
You have a valid opinion, but I completely disagree. Like someone else said in the comments when Jess left the show for a season it was not nearly as good. Jess makes the show, “she’s the glue” she is the perfect character for the role and any other personality in her position would not have worked with the show’s dynamic. I personally think that the show started going down once Cece moved into the loft. Jess is a necessary fit for the show
I guess this is an unpopular opinion but I like Jess, I think her flaws make her character. She’s stupid and annoying and I love it
As someone who followed new girl since it premiered, I gotta agree with that though the episode with Linda cardelini as Jess’ sister was pretty bad too. They did Linda so dirty
All the complaints you have about Jess equally apply to nick, which is kinda the point
I really love this show, but you brought up a great point with the whole you ask anybody what their favorite scenes are they're usually never including Jess. And i really tried thinking about it, and Jess has some really great one liners and moments but i cant really remember whole scenes that are faves.
Great video! I actually
Liked Reagan and I wish you included some specific examples of Jess railroading. I think it’s a great point but I couldn’t think of an example off the top of my head and it would help bolster your point about her.
Glad you liked it.
Gilmore Girls! Gilmore girls!! I need to hear you talk about that show so badly!!!
It's on the list. :)
All I’m going to say in Jessica’s defense is her checks have baby farm animal on them bitch! I freaking love Jess some girls are just like that her character seems so familiar to me bc I’ve been is similar situations and do similar things as her and I know some other girls the same way and not everyone has to like it but she’s a great character, idk what you were expecting? If there was anything different about her it wouldn’t be as good and as fun as the show was
I don't like specifically how they sent Jess off to jury duty. They needlessly introduced two or three opportunities for her life to change dramatically, knowing she wouldn't be around to see them through, then when she came back, it was to nothing; square one. Acting principal gone; lawyer Daniel gone; Juror 237B was nothing. Truly contrived drama that didn't even result in anything. Weird.
4:52 the most unique dynamic are the classic Winston/Cece mess around 😂
What??? She's the Best! It's like a live cartoon or a Disney princess in real life.
I liked Jess, she was who she needed to be. My favourite chemistey was hers with Nick. Unfortunately, after they broke up they practically weren't paired up again for a couple of seasons. That killed the mood for me, but it was only natural.
I watched new girl lots of times and I still laugh hard. So it is a great sitcom for me!!
Ps: Jess can be annoying sometimes, but she is funny and caring and lots of women in their 30’s could relate to her in manh ways, so I think she fullfilled her role.
She was definitely not a manic pixie dream girl in 500 days of summer. There are whole video analyses on it.
she was kind of the antithesis of a mpdm, wasn't she? if anything, jess is a better representation of a mpdm
you say jess was the worst character by far on the show, and yet when she wasnt there the whole show felt weird (for me atleast). jess brought that quirky, dork like attitude to the entire show and thats what really carried it
I agree with you that the show died in Season 5. I didn't like Reagan's character for the same reasons you didn't. She just wasn't funny. I think they should've kept Nick and Jess together all of Season 3 and I guess for conflict reasons they could break up in Season 4 only to have Nick's character grow and mature. That is to say I think it would've been cool to see Nick's character have a "Pam walking on hot coals moment" from the Office. I feel like in Season 5 Jess should have went on some teaching retreat because then we wouldn't have lost Principal Foster due to her choosing jury duty. Also, during that time they should have built on Cece's relationships with the guys instead introducing a new character.
I actually found it more engaging with the introduction of Reagan. Like you pointed out jess was the worst character on it, and she was anti jess so she gelled right on and gave everyone else more screentime and shine, so i really enjoyed her ten episode run. I really didn’t even notice jess was gone either.
As for when the show died. I’d say the last season, but just because it got stinted to 8 episodes. And while i love cece and schmdit. Trying to rekindle jess and nick and make em play catch-up within such a short amount of time was impossible
Zoey is great.. I adore her ... really..... but when you mentioned about many of my favorite moments of the show NOT including Jessica..
damn it hits home.
You should explore Moonlighting.
I think you'll find, as I have, just recently watching the series and not having grown up with it, that the analogy for the whole, "Will they or won't they, if you get the two leads together then the romantic tension is gone and with ruin your show just look at Moonlighting," thing that everyone sights is actually a bit wrong. That wasn't what ruined that show. That show was about a detective agency solving mysteries, the second they dropped that and did a four part soap opera at the tale end of season three that was very unfocused due to outside production issues is what ruined that show. Season four just makes things worse by splitting the leads up, I.E. they don't even share a scene together for half the season, and having Maddie marry a random guy she met in one episode was completely and unbelievably our of character. I have yet to get to season 5 because what used to be a fun mystery show became a slog due to unfocused writing and forgetting what the premise of the show was.
I wish more sitcoms would learn from The Office and Brooklyn 99, where the main couple gets together early and it just stops being the focus of the show, it's called SITUATIONAL comedy not romantical comedy for a REASON.
Getting the main couple together shouldn't kill the show, it should be a step on an evolution of the show.
That said, New Girl is one of my favorite shows because of it's strong characters, but I just think the relationship stuff was poorly handled unlike shows like Brooklyn 99 and The Office where the writers knew how to shift the relationship to the background of the show's focus, where, in my opinion is it's right place.
You are not objectively wrong but I have cursed you out 9,000,000,000,000 times in the past second.
You gave me a cookie, I gave you a cookie. You gave me a cookie, gave you cookie. Gave me cookie, got you cookie! You gave me cookie, I got you cookie, man! Gave me cookie, got you cookie! We're even! We're even, Schmidt!
You picked the wrong guy…
Show of hands , those who dont see a flaw so important that it ruined the show... I think its sooo good and I love love it 🥰
I love how you explain how you feel about the show. I disagree with you so much about almost everything but I see your point. For me, while Reagan didn't feel good to me, I think she worked in a way to get other characters to realize some stuff. Not sure how to explain it. I've been drinking. Its thanksgiving.
Greatest show ever written! Fantastic casts! Wish it kept going honestly
Jess was funny. Everybody needs to lighten tf up. This is the same as people (mostly men) hating on Elaine in Seinfeld. The 3 male characters did a lot of the same things she did, but when they did it, it was ok, when she did it she was a "b****".
this was an awesome video
it really summed it up perfectly
I'm genuinely going back to this show for Winston Schmidt and nick
glad you liked the vid!
I mean, for me, it was at it’s peak when Coach was there. Soon as he left I knew no seasons were going to be any funnier. And I REALLY hated when they had Jess and Nick get together. Then I saw a video of them saying Prince is the reason why that was even a thing. He said he would be on an episode only if Jess and Nick got together. Which to me, was just not the move, it kinda made everything irritating, to me. Other than that, I loved this show.
Establish titles is a well known scam…. Get with the program
100% agree. Reagan was such a meh chatacter and it was so unbelievable that she and Nick get together because as you said she is an anti-jess-character. So why would Nick fall in love with a person that is the opposite to his endgame.
The "will they won't they" curse is why some of the best sitcoms are the ones that turned the cliche on its head. Seinfeld had Jerry and Elaine's relationship already be in the past. Third Rock From the Sun had Dick and Dr Albright hook up in the very first episode. Community was too, well, Community for a conventional dynamic to ever really take hold between Jeff and Britta. All three freed themselves from the limitations of the standard "will they won't they" and were better for it.
Oh man, I forgot about Reagan. She suuuuuuucked. Jess might not have been particularly funny, and I absolutely agree that the character was at times DEEPLY irritating and made me want to slap her, but she was also sort of the sun that held the rest of the planets of the cast in place. Her maternity leave (completely understandable IRL) was an in-universe star nuke that sent the planets of the rest of the cast flailing off into parts unknown. All of the other characters and actors are great, but the show was purpose-built to orbit them around Jess, and whatever other failings and inconsistencies it had, it definitely nailed that part (as evidenced by how horribly it went when she was removed.)
Jess wasn't a great character, but the show and the other characters don't work without Jess being... Jess.
I think this show’s really underrated. It’s consistently LOL funny & the characters are all intensely likeable
This video died the moment you said Jess was the worst character. Jess is incredible, gets as many laughs out of me as anyone else. Sounds a bit like someone is projecting their issues with women in their own life onto this fictional character and hoping to be vindicated by strangers on the internet...lol. No character growth? Duh, it's a comedy-characters aren't supposed to grow much in a comedy. Furthermore, I think this level of analysis just isn't really necessary or appropriate for a show like New Girl. It's not meant to be a great work of cinema, it's a sitcom. It's Friends for Millennials.
Somehow I knew it would be Established Titles, they are quickly becoming the new VPN ad. It's everywhere. When everyone is a Lord, no one is a Lord.
I agree about Jess and Nick relationship, tho. But what I dont understand is why the writes have to break them up. There are a lot os things that can happen to a couple.
I didn’t love Jess in the beginning. But as I made it through the series, I began to realize how unique she is as a lead woman character. She is a teacher, deeply cares about her friends often putting their happiness before hers, she’s smart, quirky, and comfortable with who she is.
Season three is great!!! Idk what this guy is talking about
The fact that most people say that Jess’s character is the worst only affirms how excellent an excellent actress Zoey is
I'm new to the channel. Could never endure a full episode of New Girl and I don't even know why. I'd liked Zoey in everything else but as soon as I saw the ad for this show I was like "Oh SH*T" they're going to take her 500 Days of Summer persona and beat it into the ground while making it one note.
Part of what was so good about 5:00 days of summer is precisely that summer wasn't really the magic pexie dream girl that Tom wanted her to be. When she cries during the graduate we know that there's some profound grief that she's having probably about her parents divorce which is when she made the dramatic decision to cut her hair which was apparently life altering. So she's got her own internal life that Tom never understood. But just comes along and so she happen in her life I don't know I was never able to watch the show long enough to figure that out.
I just think that that twee presence that Zoe just her nail had was really charming but to overplay it is, almost needless to say, going to be sickly sweet.
Or whatever insight I can muster so that I can leave a comment on this video, because now that I'm new to the channel, I want to support it! We UA-camrs have to stick together…
The show was always terrible, the worst!!....just Joshua. Seriously for me there are no duds. I can come back to this show every year and enjoy it straight through. Plus Jess's character is my favorite character and I think disliking her is more a matter of personal taste rather than the character being flawed.
I have started and failed to watch this show so many times now. I’d say I’ve gotten 2-3 seasons in each time? Unsure. But then I saw a video where a guy watched the first couple episodes and then skips right to the last couple and the decline in quality was PAINFUL. I almost don’t want to watch it out of fear of that decline on the horizon.
I did not really care for the last three episodes but I thought the rest of the last season was fine. It was different for sure but it was still good. Reagan and Nick is rough though for sure. That whole storyline is awful.
Honestly I always loved Jess but then towards the end I feel like they dialed her character up to ten which made her annoying quirks at the beginning, that i didn't mind so much, more unbearable and hard to watch. Like when she wanted to convince Sam to drop the restraining order. I hate that episode so much.
That being said i love this show so so so so s so so so so much that I can enjoy it despite its flaws and pretend it doesn't even have any lol
Wow I totally remember checking out after season 3. Nice to know the production was equally confused with their work. Writings hard yo
What about the chemistry between Cece and Schmidt. They were my favorite couple on the show by far.
I love that Winston now does Banking Ads here in Canada!
I love this show and super pissed it's leaving Netflix next month
How dare u say that Zooey Deschanel is the worst character😢 she's the reason why i watch new girl
I loved the show from start to end. I think they realized early on that Zooey wasn't meant to lead the show, so they made a wise decision to pivot to it being an ensemble - such a great cast! And Cece / Hannah Simone should've gotten more attention in your video, in my opinion. At first, I thought they were just throwing in another TV-friendly 'hot girl,' it turned out she could be silly, heart-warming and, yes, very funny too. I would say that Winston at least started out as the weakest character as they had to make that last minute switch to Lamorne once DW Jr.'s show got picked up. But, that said, he ended up being one of the most complex characters by the end. Through radio shows, the cat fascination & being a cop, I loved seeing Winston evolve. I think they did a great job with couples too. Nick/Jess, Winston/Aly and yes, married Schmidt/Cece. In my opinion, actually allowing the single people to become couples didn't diminish the excitement of the show. Lastly, yes, Reagan's character was certainly forced to exist to fill the gap of Zooey taking time. That said, I did like how she pushed and challenged Nick in ways that were very different from how Jess pushed him - And there's nothing better than an uncomfortable Nick. Yes, there were peaks and valleys when it came to the quality of the show, but it's a talented cast of actors and fun characters that I couldn't get enough of even by the end. ~~JFK! FDR!~~
I am rewatching for the 3rd time now :) and I remembered it going downhill very quickly and - as you mentioned - there where wholesome, funny and memorable episodes between a ton of episodes that felt like fillers more than a show 😅 I loved the characters in it. Especially Winston and Cece - but tbh, everyone brought something to the table. I don't necessarily have a problem with Jess (at least not now, being in the middle of season 1, and from what I remeber) but I will def keep an eye open for her acting out
Annoying children??? Was Ruth one of those??? Obviously not.
She was great, funny and added a lot to the show.
This was a terrible review, not a single point that you tried to make landed or had any argument besides personal opinion.
Reagan was not a purely sexualized character (maybe that’s you projecting your own perspective, which is weird), she might’ve not been funny, but she did have a lot of purposeful traits.
Jess was definitely annoying for a lot of people who weren’t the target audience of the show, but her quirkiness and bubbly personality was the heart and glue of the show.
Just a terrible review.
I get it that it's A TV show but also have you ever met anyone like her in real life because they don't just change they act that way forever And never understand that they are overbearing Or that they shouldn't take as many liberties to jump into other people's problems as what they do
Non fan who only discovered the show mid run through tik tok clips gives scathing review of show. Pass.
I wanted to disagree, but I was obSESSED with the first few seasons, and then when season 5 dropped it took me like a year to finally watch it. I would just restart from the beginning and get to reagans era and be like, “I’m good”- but the series really didn’t stop being *funny* until the rushed 7 season. I think Reagan worked as a foil, I really liked her interactions with Winston and the brief moment of bisexual visibility, but I was happy to see her go. Season 7 on the other hand was just… bad. But it wasn’t their fault, and I really appreciate jake and Zooey going out of their way to make sure fans got a wrap up season. I would have been gutted if we never got ANY conclusion, this one was just a little *eh*.
I just recently watched a couple of seasons of New Girl and jad a lot of the same takeaways as you. Never got as far as the introduction of Reagan
Yeah... I mean it's decent, but you're not missing much.
No show has this more than Frasier, the jokes about Niles being in love with Daphne were some of the best. "ALONE NILES!"
The last season of New Girl was objectively horrible. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more phoned in season of tv in my life. Everyone seemed over it and it was sad to watch. Great show all around but they could’ve kept that last season.
The shows strength, and the reason I started watching it was the dynamic of the guys in the loft and how they acted and talked to each other. Which was apparently directly based on the creators own experience of living with guys. But after the 2nd season it became clear to me that they didn't have any idea of where the show would go and didn't have any of the characters fleshed out beyond their current situation. Which basically lead to them attempting every TV cliche in a 'throw it at the wall and see what sticks' approach. The worst part foe me was when they started inserting celebrity cameos into the show and completely dragged it from reality. Chef ramsay cooking for Jess, the prince episode, and so on. These were no longer normal people living in the normal world, they were tv characters living in fantasy LA. And then of course they completely alter everyone's character by the later seasons based on nothing more than a line or two thst comes out of nowhere. Winston randomly decides he likes investigating things, a trait he had never shown, so he decides in about 30 seconds to become a cop. Schmidt and CeCe completely reverse everything about each other so that he stops working and she is arbitrarily made a successful business woman, despite being shown to have no skills or ability to do anything. And of course nick is made a great writer out of nowhere and they throw away the entire thing about his dream being to just work at the bar because that's what he likes. It's all just such bad writing for a show thst started out with such a relatable premise.
As someone else said, NG never got bad enough to not be enjoyable to watch---although I straight up skip the Elizabeth episodes and the ridiculous Jess and Nick break up episode. I remember being completely caught off guard with both of those storylines and they sucked. Reagan was okay but I don't see why 1. She was needed in the first place. The main gangalang was legitimately perfect and 2. Deeeefintely don't see why they had to pair her with Nick. All that being said I love this show and it's a really good comfort rewatch.
I am dying to see some of my favs do Shameless. I know I'm not gonna get a FSN deep dive but throwing it in the pot for the day ___ died. I have VERY strong feelings about that show and I'm totally salty to this day about what it turned into. And somehow still shocked. It does not compute. I just don't see it talked about on the youtubes and it kind of kills me 😬
Anyhow, love New Girl, Jess was my least favorite character but only because she could be so obnoxious and stubborn in a bad way. But that's not saying much cause someone has to be the least favorite as cause these characters are so great. Nice video, always glad to see NG covered!
will their ever be an episode called the day the elk died?
The only reason cece was important in the show was cause of Schmidt.