New Girl [Fox - Spoilers]

starlit · 25-07-2015 6:18pm

Is it me or is new girl not as funny as before? I find I am skipping scenes. The jess/nick relationship has ruined the dynamic of the group I think. I can't see cece and Schmidt not getting together again. Only catching up with the e4 version.

don ramo · 25-07-2015 10:32pm

doovdela wrote: »

Is it me or is new girl not as funny as before? I find I am skipping scenes. The jess/nick relationship has ruined the dynamic of the group I think. I can't see cece and Schmidt not getting together again. Only catching up with the e4 version.

yeah the breaking and getting back together ruins the dynamics a bit alright, i think when damon wayans rejoined the show he kinda upset the balance of the cast, 4 guys 2 girls, it was just kinda off, that and i just didnt take to his character, glad hes gone now, so maybe they can get the balance back, and just either have the couples together or dont, will they wont they can only last so long,

FreudianSlippers · 27-07-2015 10:35am

doovdela wrote: »

Is it me or is new girl not as funny as before? I find I am skipping scenes. The jess/nick relationship has ruined the dynamic of the group I think. I can't see cece and Schmidt not getting together again. Only catching up with the e4 version.

IDK what season E4 are showing, but Season 3 didn't have the strongest episodes, particularly standalone ones. Season 4 was amazing though.

Basq · 18-09-2015 10:18am

Oh well yeah.. she's well known for her hilarious comedic roles! :rolleyes:

There's a new girl in town on New Girl - and she's quite famous.

Megan Fox is joining the Fox sitcom for its fifth season next year while star Zooey Deschanel is on maternity leave following the birth of her first child last month.

The Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles actress will appear in the sixth episode onwards, scheduled to premiere in January.

Didn't realise the fifth series wasn't back til next year.

don ramo · 18-09-2015 11:12am

Basq wrote: »

Oh well yeah.. she's well known for her hilarious comedic roles! :rolleyes:

Didn't realise the fifth series wasn't back til next year.

yeah she was on 2 and half men years ago, just hung about in a bikini, cleaning windows if i recall, i really dont know why anyone would think of her or a comedy,

i didnt realise it wasnt back till then, balls, miss the lads:)

FouxDaFaFa · 18-09-2015 1:40pm

My gut reaction is that Fox is a terrible idea but one thing the people behind New Girl have been consistently great at is casting guest stars and cameos so I'll give it a chance.

JP Liz V1 · 18-09-2015 11:19pm

Should have got Jessica Biel back

pickarooney · 19-09-2015 6:12am

Or Alex Daddario

FreudianSlippers · 21-09-2015 2:29pm

Basq wrote: »

Oh well yeah.. she's well known for her hilarious comedic roles! :rolleyes:

Didn't realise the fifth series wasn't back til next year.

This is an awful idea. Could tank the show IMO.

JP Liz V1 · 10-12-2015 1:04am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NrFLqiQVZo

Season 5 starts 5th of January

pickarooney · 10-12-2015 7:20am

Jess is not in it this season. How dumb is that?

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 10-12-2015 8:18pm

pickarooney wrote: »

Jess is not in it this season. How dumb is that?

She's not in the first 5 episodes because Zoey Deschanel was on maternity leave, but she'll be back for the rest of the season.

pickarooney · 10-12-2015 8:52pm

Ah, I thought it was the other way around.

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 10-12-2015 9:22pm

pickarooney wrote: »

Ah, I thought it was the other way around.

Actually, it seems you were right, I had read it wrong. Deschanel has recorded 5 episodes and then will disappear (but I don't know for how long). That'll be strange actually, but I'm sure the three lads and CeCe can carry the show well enough while she's away.

AlmightyCushion · 10-12-2015 9:29pm

I always thought her character was pretty weak so I won't miss her too much.

Frank O. Pinion · 11-12-2015 10:12am

I've read Deschanel will miss only four episodes of the season.

SteelyDanJalapeno · 11-12-2015 10:57am

Not too bothered she was the weakest

Basq · 26-03-2016 12:06pm

Just caught up with the latest episode now..

.. this series has become unwatchable!

Mitch Connor · 26-03-2016 3:55pm

Basq wrote: »

Just caught up with the latest episode now..

.. this series has become unwatchable!

i'm still liking it. Winston being a cop and his interactions with the two partners he has had has been funny. Schmidt still has some brilliant lines and interactions too. I do miss Coach though.

pixelburp · 26-03-2016 6:42pm

Basq wrote: »

Just caught up with the latest episode now..

.. this series has become unwatchable!

A bit harsh, no? Hard to keep amy series fresh after 5 seasons, particularly a 22 episode sitcom, but I think the standard has been OK. Jess has become a little surplus to requirements, but Winston has become the shows goofiest, most enjoyably daft character. And personally, I thought Coach never worked, glad he's gone

pickarooney · 26-03-2016 7:28pm

They don't seem to be able to juggle all the characters at once. Winston is now finally a good character but Nick and Schmidt have gotten weaker. They either don't know how to use CeCe or she's just not a natural comedian.

FreudianSlippers · 29-03-2016 2:25pm

pickarooney wrote: »

They don't seem to be able to juggle all the characters at once. Winston is now finally a good character but Nick and Schmidt have gotten weaker. They either don't know how to use CeCe or she's just not a natural comedian.

Interesting - I actually thought CeCe/Winston combo was some of the funnier stuff this season!

pixelburp · 29-03-2016 2:44pm

I think CeCe works better ATM when paired up with anyone who isn't Schmidt; that particular combo has slipped into the standard set of sitcom wedding-planning tropes so there's little potential there. As said, her team-ups with Winston have been pretty great: then it's some 'classic CeCe-and-Winston mess around'!

Patty O Furniture · 08-04-2016 2:53am

Mitch Connor wrote: »

i'm still liking it. Winston being a cop and his interactions with the two partners he has had has been funny. Schmidt still has some brilliant lines and interactions too. I do miss Coach though.

Coach just turned up, impersonating a cop on Brooklyn 9-9, if Winston hears about this

(on E4 tonite)

Basq wrote: »

Just caught up with the latest episode now..

.. this series has become unwatchable!

It's a bit hit & miss, not as much a laff riot as it used to be, i suppose after 5 seasons!

crazyderk · 08-04-2016 8:26am

Well myself and the OH have officially given up on the show. its jsut gone that awful it really is unwatchable.

irish son · 10-04-2016 2:54pm

One of my major problems with sitcoms is when they take a character, in this case Schmidt, who was a great character in the first 2 seasons and they take one of the most funny elements of his character, the fact he's a single, kind of sleazy ladies man and then they put him in a relationship

Same thing with Howard in the Big Bang Theory and I'm sure there are multiple other examples.

I know some people will disagree with me on this but I don't want character development in my sitcoms, I just want them to be funny first and foremost and these changes are taking away one of the elements that made these shows so funny in the first place.

pixelburp · 10-04-2016 3:16pm

irish son wrote: »

One of my major problems with sitcoms is when they take a character, in this case Schmidt, who was a great character in the first 2 seasons and they take one of the most funny elements of his character, the fact he's a single, kind of sleazy ladies man and then they put him in a relationship Same thing with Howard in the Big Bang Theory and I'm sure there are multiple other examples.

I know some people will disagree with me on this but I don't want character development in my sitcoms, I just want them to be funny first and foremost and these changes are taking away one of the elements that made these shows so funny in the first place.

You can't not have some form of character developmnent if the humans within the script are even vaguely self aware or vulnerable, emotional beings. There are only so many you can hit a guy with a pie to the face before you have to make him start avoiding the pies. Otherwise it's just a cartoon.

You say you don't want development, but it's everywhere in some forms or another, and the shows that go the most stale and tedious are usually those that steadfast refuse to let its casts grow or change (step forward Modern Family for instance). Heck even the most sitcomy of sitcoms like Big Bang Theory has let it's characters develop. I think what you're objecting is that you just don't like this particular development.

Personally, I hate the sleazy types on sitcoms, and Schmidts appeal was more about his blatant hen pecking and high maintenance, coupled with his mothering of Nick. The CeCe plot has neutered him entirely and that kinda sucks, but I like how the show has otherwise gently nudged its characters forward towards some form of growth and emotional maturity.

pickarooney · 10-04-2016 5:23pm

Characters can develop without the dull predictability of loving relationships and emotional maturity.

On rhe orher hand, none of Seinfeld's characters ever really developed and the show didn't really go stale at all.

Dtp1979 · 10-04-2016 5:26pm

What channel is the new series on?

Patty O Furniture · 10-04-2016 11:33pm

pickarooney wrote: »

Characters can develop without the dull predictability of loving relationships and emotional maturity.

On the other hand, none of Seinfeld's characters ever really developed and the show didn't really go stale at all.

I feared the worse when George was getting married to Susan, but that was dealt with in a funny way, still remembered to this day

Jerry always had something wrong with each woman he saw, like 'manhands'

Elaine's 'Spongeability', don't ask

Kramer - he'll always be The Assman :cool:

Dtp1979 wrote: »

What channel is the new series on?

RTE 2 - Thursday@9 - ep4 afaik

New Girl [Fox - Spoilers]

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