BuzzFeed - Following an underwhelming third season, the Fox comedy has creatively rebounded in Season 4 by telling simpler, funnier stories. New Girl âs executive producers explain to BuzzFeed News how they regained control over their show. Ray Mickshaw / FOX No one would dispute that New Girl lost its way in Season 3 â not even the show's executive producers. "We obviously struggled last year," creator Elizabeth Meriwether told BuzzFeed News, sitting on the couch in her simply decorated, desk-free office on the Fox lot in Los Angeles with her fellow executive producers. "I think one of the show's strengths is that it's always been able to go to a million different places and do a million different things, but the problem with that is sometimes when we take a big swing and miss, you really feel the pain of that." The big swing Meriwether spoke of was putting its romantic leads, Jess Day (Zooey Deschanel) and Nick Miller (Jake Johnson), into a full-blown relationship. The
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