Zooey Deschanel's New Girl: Fall's best new TV show?

The awkward-but-lovable actress headlines Fox's new comedy, which is earning high praise for the "fully adorkable" star

Zoey Deschanel in Fox's new fall comedy "New Girl"
(Image credit: Isabella Vosmikova/FOX)

Apparently quite confident in its incessantly publicized new sitcom New Girl, Fox has made the pilot episode available for free on iTunes — and soon on Hulu, too — in advance of its Sept. 20 premiere. The series stars Zooey Deschanel ((500) Days of Summer) as a quirky, "fully adorkable" free spirit who, after a bad breakup, moves into a new apartment with three out-of-their-element guys. The show is earning high praise as the best new series of the fall, but for some, its star's trademark Zooey Deschanel-ness is too cutesy to bear. Now that critics have had a first look, should you tune in for more?

Yep. It's the fall's best new comedy: New Girl is "heartbreakingly funny, endearingly offensive, snarkily sweet, and wrong in all the right ways," says Kristin Dos Santos at E! Online. The cast has rare, spot-on comedic chemistry, and Deschanel gives a fearless performance in the name of racking up laughs. In fact, it's her "best work yet." It's not just for chicks either; "plenty of guys" will pick this pilot as their "favorite of the fall."

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