Another terrific tv twosome here featuring New Girl and Hart of Dixie as the Leading Ladies. You can check out the other teams by clicking the buttons for the team below.
New Girl and Hart of Dixie feature ample amounts of humor mixed with a sweet, sentimentality that’s in no small part due to the charming personality of the female leads.
Jessica Day (Zooey Deschanel) is the offbeat friend that makes life that much more interesting. Whether she’s singing about nothing important or struggling to talk about parts of the male anatomy, there’s an endearing nature to Jess that’s infectious.
In Hart of Dixie, the southern charm of Bluebell, Alabama presents a setting that’s as comforting as a slice of apple pie. Initially, Dr. Zoe Hart (Rachel Bilson) is the “I’m good with medicine, bad with patients” type of doctor, but the cold exterior melts quickly due to the warmth of Bluebell’s residents.
Leading Ladies Lifestyle Change in Pilot
In the pilot for both shows, Jessica Day and Dr. Zoe Hart each make drastic lifestyle changes, which become the main settings for the respective shows. The lifestyle destinations – Apartment 4-D in New Girl and Bluebell in Hart of Dixie – are characters themselves. Very minor spoilers coming up, the synopses prior to each show’s debut mentions the lifestyle change.
New Girl begins with Jess moving into “Apartment 4-D” with three male roommates after a failed relationship. Weddings, breakups, countless games of “True American” and so much more take place among Jess, Nick (Jake Johnson), Schmidt (Max Greenfield), Winston (Lamorne Morris), Coach (Damon Wayans Jr.) and Cece (Hannah Simone) in “The Loft.”
Hart of Dixie presents a unique take on the fish-out-of-water story. Rather than place a small-town girl in a big city, Hart of Dixie transports Zoe from the fast-paced New York lifestyle to the southern belle culture in Bluebell.
Memorable Quote from Hart of Dixie
People can conquer miles, any sort of obstacle, if it’s meant to be.
Dr. Zoe Hart
Will They/Won’t They
Both of the lead characters enter relationships that end, but are revisited later in their runs. In both shows, the reignited relationships feel earned due to the character development of the male love interests.
In Hart of Dixie, the initial breakup occurs solely due to the immature actions of the male character.
For New Girl, there’s actually two relationships that are revisited after a breakup. In fact, there’s a “will they/won’t they” relationship that generates one of the best character development arcs in a comedy series.
Memorable Quote from New Girl
We’re all in…all five of us out there together, in the wild, getting some strange, like a sex fist! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 of us together, make a fist: Schmidt, Nick, Coach, Winston, Jess, sex fist when you put them all together! Tearing our way through the reception! It’s a metaphor for togetherness.
Jessica Day
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