Was I a little scared tuning in to New Girl this week? Yes.
Were my fears resolved? Not
necessarily. All great sitcoms have one
thing in common, fantastic will they/won’t they tension between two
characters. And in almost every case,
when that tension is taken away the show goes down the tubes. The one exception is Cheers where the writers
were somehow able to make the Sam/Diane relationship so contentious that even
when they were together you felt the tension.
When Nick kissed Jess last week I groaned, I audibly groaned because I
saw the best comedy on TV make a huge mistake.
They didn’t have to go there yet.
This wasn’t a Jim/Pam situation where the writers had put themselves in
a corner they could only get out of with a kiss. There was plenty of story to develop before
these two had a moment, so it really worried me that they jumped right in. It felt like a classic jump the shark moment
even it is only season two. And Table 34
didn’t do much to make me feel better about the decision. The two may have spent most of the episode
claiming that the kiss meant nothing, but I’m sure none of us believed that and
ending the Jess/Sam relationship just feels like another step in the wrong
direction. I love this show, but a
Jess/Nick relationship will be nothing short of disaster, especially this early
in the game.
In other
news, Winston may be becoming my new favorite character. They’ve figured the character out and every
week he just seems to get funnier. Even
though I was wrong about last week’s girl becoming a semi-regular, I was very
happy with the mojo man. I also loved
Nick’s panic moonwalk. I hope that’s a
joke that comes back without mention.
It’s silly yet perfectly describes Nick’s awkwardness in certain
situations.
The
Nick quote of the week: “Is there another doctor in the house?”
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