New Girl
Hello my name is Sarah Mincher and I have a serious obsession with New Girl on Fox. If, for some crazy reason you have not seen New Girl 1. Read this blog and 2. Go immediately to hulu.com and catch up. Crazyface. Not only is the show smartly written, with the perfect amount of off-beat pop culture meets relatable real life drama, it seriously sheds a light on a very specific personality I totally relate to: the quirky female. Often overshadowed housewives, sluts, models, bacherlottes and other television molds females have been neatly type cast into via our television, the quirky female has been looked over for quite some time. Until now.
Meet Jess Day, played very fittingly by everyone’s favorite glasses wearing “it girl”- Zoe Deschanel. Suffering from a bad breakup with a total nutcase, our heroine in her late 20’s finds herself out of a home and moving into a loft with three, uh, grown frat men who badly need some estrogen in their life. Despite being, well extremely beautiful, Jess is a nerd at heart and the show completely embraces and highlights her goofy personality over her good looks (talk about a breath of fresh air). From wearing hats made of ribbon (Ribbon-hat. Seriously), singing songs about and to her food and actually pretending she was a sexy lumberjack during a not so hot and heavy bedroom scene with her boyfriend, Jess is a female role model for the current generation of young women. A generation who’d rather cook cupcakes for their girlfriends than a casserole for their man, would rather work on her record collection than at the gym, and who would rather steal a hug from a friend than a boyfriend. Television and her impression young viewers have needed a “Jess” for quite some time, and I really hope Jess and her Ribbon Hat are here to stay.
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Sarah Mincher
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