New Girl Evaluation

In 1,000 years many aspects of life can change such as the society and its culture. With the technology that exists, we are able to look back at many years and pin point the changes that occurred. I decided to look back to the year 2016 and understand what the culture and society was like by watching a television show that aired in that year. For this assignment, I decided to evaluate the television show, New Girl. In the year 2016, the comedy series was in its fifth season on the television network, FOX. The show is about an eccentric young woman, Jess who after a bad break-up has to move into a loft with three single men she’s never met. The first roommate is Nick, who is a law-school dropout that prefers to be left alone. Then there is Schmidt, …show more content…
Not many television shows have a woman as a main character nor do they have a woman being a homosexual. Many of the television shows were beginning to accept homosexuality, however, not many had woman as the homosexual. The shows were beginning to show man and their homosexuality, but never the woman. Also, I loved how the writers went even further than just showing woman having homosexuality, but also showing acceptance of it. The other character’s in the episode did not treat Reagan any differently because of her sexuality. None of the character’s seemed to be confused nor disturbed when Reagan broke up with her girlfriend in front of them. Instead, they tried to help her with the break up, showing that her sexuality does not affect them.
I decided to choose this episode because I love the accurate presentations they show of society during this time. It was during this time that society was beginning to accept that homosexual people are the same as heterosexual. They began to realize that who you love does not change who you are as a person and that it does not need to be hidden. Just as this episode showed that not all woman are emotional and weak. Woman are capable of being just like men, strong and