If I’m going to sit down for an evening of light-hearted entertainment, there is only one show for the job. The easy-going, hilarious, New Girl.
With seven seasons, filmed from 2011-2018, the show provides the perfect number of episodes to be watched in a loop. It’s easy to go: ‘Well let’s go back to the beginning’, and that is evidence enough of a show’s success. I want to watch Nick and Jess almost date for four seasons, I want to witness the chaos of True American (their drinking game), and I want to be transported to a world where it’s okay if I never get a job and spend years writing a spy novel. The plots are consistent, but each episode is complete in its own right, meaning you can miss a couple of episodes and it’s not the end of the world.
I want to watch Nick and Jess almost date for four seasons, I want to witness the chaos of True American (their drinking game), and I want to be transported to a world where it’s okay if I never get a job and spend years writing a spy novel.
If I could recommend any episode to make you laugh out loud, it would have to be Background Check: Season 4 Episode 6. If you haven’t watched it: then your evening is planned. If you have watched it, go giggle again, there’s no harm- it’s our guilty pleasure.
What’s great about this show is just how easy it is to watch. Watch it whilst making dinner, a night with friends over, as a background sound whilst you do the dishes. Scenes are quoted on the daily in my friend groups. Obvious mentions include: ‘Nick, your gay, be gay, be gay, be gay;’ ‘So I’ve decided to give up women and put all my energy into tomatoes;’ and, ‘They call me Prank Sinatra.’ Disclosure: quotes will vary depending on the intimacy of the friendships and how far away from settling down you are.
What’s great about this show is just how easy it is to watch. Watch it whilst making dinner, a night with friends over, as a background sound whilst you do the dishes.
These endless quotable moments provide us with the 2010s Friends. Again, a group of late twenties, early thirty-somethings, attempt to navigate adulthood and often get it wrong. There is a pleasure in watching something so silly, and for a brief time, the deadlines don’t matter because you can always be like Schmitt and go into marketing.
So, if you’re in the mood for something feel good, have a watch, and strengthen your relationships with some light-hearted humour to giggle about on cold autumn evenings.
