{"id":669,"date":"2012-05-10T18:51:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T22:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=669"},"modified":"2017-04-06T20:15:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T00:15:35","slug":"new-girl-season-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/new-girl-season-1\/","title":{"rendered":"New Girl (season 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;So when I do the chicken dance I do it a little differently. Instead of doing claps, I like to do a peck. It&#8217;s more realistic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Girl<\/strong> season 1, aired in 2011-12<\/p>\n<p>Jess (Zooey Deschanel) just broke up with her boyfriend and finds a new place &#8212; with three guys. Nick (Jake M. Johnson), Winston (Lamorne Morris), and Schmidt (Max Greenfield). Jess is an elementary school teacher who&#8217;s very quirky &#8212; for example, she&#8217;s been known to randomly break into song. Nick is a slacker working as a bartender, Winston just got back from playing basketball overseas, and Schmidt is a businessman and ladies&#8217; man.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s Cece (Hannah Simone), Jess&#8217;s best friend who&#8217;s a model (Schmidt voted for Jess as a housemate because of her model friends). Justin Long (<strong>Live Free or Die Hard<\/strong>),&nbsp;Dermot Mulroney (<strong>My Best Friend&#8217;s Wedding<\/strong>), and Jeanne Tripplehorn (<strong>Waterworld<\/strong>) also show up as guest stars.<\/p>\n<p>I started watching this show because of Deschanel (<strong>Elf<\/strong> and <strong>500 Days of Summer<\/strong>). But the four main characters in the show are all unusual and amazing &#8212; that&#8217;s what makes it brilliant. There&#8217;s nothing unique about the basic premise &#8212; it&#8217;s the characters and the actors who bring them to life who make the show funny. Yes, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/raising-hope-seasons-1-2\/\">another one of the current TV shows<\/a> in which every episode is hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>The series was created by Elizabeth Meriwether (writer of <strong>No Strings Attached<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;So when I do the chicken dance I do it a little differently. Instead of doing claps, I like to do a peck. It&#8217;s more realistic.&#8221; New Girl season 1, aired in 2011-12 Jess (Zooey Deschanel) just broke up with her boyfriend and finds a new place &#8212; with three guys. Nick (Jake M. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16,5,11],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-comedy","tag-review","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10574,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/10574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}