New Girl: Season 1, Episode 6 “Thanksgiving” (B+)
I had a feeling that it might just take some time to get into this show, though the initial enthusiasm bestowed upon it by so many made me doubt that. At this point, however, the characters have become endearing and the plotlines creative despite a somewhat limiting premise. It’s hard to pull off a novel Thanksgiving episode since there have been about 684 of them produced in the history of television, and I have to give this show credit for crafting and entertaining and decently inventive half-hour. The introduction of Justin Long’s character Paul is fun because he really is a male version of Jess, and it’s fun to see the guys react to the sight of the two of them together. Of course the guys would be planning a laidback, effortless Dudesgiving, though they weren’t so into Schmidt’s name, and therefore would be thrown for a loop when Jess suddenly decided they had to put something together because she invited Paul over. Hanksgiving turned out to be a blast, and not in a good way for our resident apartment-dwellers, as the dryer got broken thanks to the brilliant idea to use it to thaw out the turkey and there was too much smoke to be able to stay in the apartment. Jess’ anger with Nick over his attitude towards Paul was another great instance of their complicated yet seemingly still platonic relationship. What I really loved was how Cece realized that she was into Schmidt, but only when he was mean to her, which resulted in her getting over the crush because he started apologizing and being nice again.
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