Like Parks and Recreation before it, New Girl went out on a shortened victory lap of a season that jumped forward three years in time and burned through episodes at a two-per-week clip to get the whole thing over with in the course of a month.
New Girl was no Parks and Recreation. It was mostly pretty good, occasionally hilarious, and often incredibly forgettable. The lowest it sank was probably in the fourth or fifth season - at least it ended on an uptick! The best thing it did was give Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, and Lamorne Morris to the world. The worst thing it did was that whole "adorkable" marketing campaign at the very beginning of its run.
There's really not a lot else to say about it! At its core, it was about a group of twenty- and then thirty-something friends - probably the best "friends hanging out" sitcom since, you know, Friends. I don't really think I'll miss it, if that makes sense - there's just too much damn television out there! - but these low stakes comedies are often the hardest shows to let go of. You feel, on a certain level, like this group of friends is your own group of friends. You've been "with" them for years, after all, and that makes it harder to say goodbye to something like this than, say, Breaking Bad or The Americans. I think that's why there's such a strong sense of nostalgia for these shows, and why they're all getting rebooted left and right. I mean, New Girl was never a true hit, and only got worse and worse ratings as it wore on (even relative to overall TV ratings declines) but, would it shock anyone if, in 2028, we got a four-episode New Girl reunion of some sort? I mean, Zooey Deschanel ain't going nowhere, right?
Anyway, farewell to New Girl. I will generally remember you fondly!
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