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Fox’s ‘New Girl’ is the best new comedy of the fall season! Okay, I will admit this show is directly in my lane (or wheelhouse as Mo Ryan would say). Quirky, girl who sings to herself? Yes please! My propensity for awkward comedy aside, ‘New Girl’ is a good, solidly funny show. And a lot of people seem to agree with me.
The pilot for ‘New Girl’ was Fox’s highest-rated fall sitcom debut in 10 years and
last week the network ordered an additional 11 episodes, totaling the number to 24. The pilot episode was enticing, I would even go as far as to call it winning (it definitely made me laugh more than the ‘Whitney’ pilot) and despite the shakeup of having to replace Damon Wayans Jr. the second episode, ‘Kryptonite’ was also solidly funny.
‘Kryptonite’ had some expected rough edges, like not knowing how to use CeCe other than letting Schmidt ogle her, but overall the theme, plot, relationships, and characters in ‘New Girl’ are being refined from good to great. Needless to say I think there is a lot of potential for the show and I am definitely going to make a point of watching every week.
To sell you even further on why you should fill the hole on your DVR with ‘New Girl’, I’ve written a
review of ‘Kryptonite’ including: What happened, What worked and What didn’t work. As well
as some of the funniest lines of the show, no not the ones the writers hit you over the head with and wanted you to believe were funny (“You Got Some Schmidt on your face”) the ones that were actually funny.