COMEDY
New Girl
Fox, CITY-TV, 9 p.m. ET/PT
Last season’s sleeper surprise hit, this comedy vehicle for Zooey Deschanel has breathed new life into the Tuesday
Monday
-night TV lineup. The coquettish actress is charming and funny as the free-spirited Jess, a
free-spirited
schoolmarm who dumps her two-timing boyfriend and moves in with three likeable boyos, namely, Schmidt (Max Greenfield), Nick (Jake Johnson) and Winston (Lamorne Morris). The second season opens with Jess still looking for true love in all the wrong places, which results in her pretending to be the blind date of a handsome stranger. Her three roommates, meanwhile, are unnerved by an unannounced visit from Winston’s mean-spirited mama, played by TV veteran Anna Maria Horsford.