"New Girl"?: Up to Old Tricks?

Fox's new sitcom titled,"New Girl" is about a young woman who got her heartbroken and decided to shack up with three young men.  The show is a comedy about how a fairly eccentric woman can handle living with three men that are each different in their own way.  The first two shows highlighted the differences between these three males by placing an individual focus on the quirks in their respective personalities.  Nick is also a lonely man who lost his girlfriend months before, Schmidt is a wannabe stud who is simultaneously visually appealing and utterly clueless, and the third, Coach is an overly aggressive personal trainer. Coach is the only ethnic character on the show. This character's personality is meant be humorously distancing yet engaging. He longs to be more sensitive, and this is why he is not as initially opposed to the idea of a female roommate for guidance as his fellow cast mates.

After the two first episodes the show replaced Coach who is played by Damon Wayans Jr with Lemorne Morris's Winston.  This individual is a retired basketball player who is trying to find his place in the absence of the only career he has ever known. The circumstances surrounding this new character are inevitably suspect as the writers/producers of "New Girl" choose not to explain what has happened to Coach. The opening of the second episode offers two lines stating that Coach is gone and that Winston will be moving "back" in. Which leaves us, as viewers with several unanswered questions. What, if any, is the relationship between Coach and Winston? Did the other two roommates then elect to duplicate the racial dynamic in the house in Winston's original depature from the apartment by choosing another African-American male? Unlikely. Outside the realm of the show, we know that Daman Wayans Jr. is a character on the ABC sitcom "Happy Endings" which got picked up for a full season thus impeding his sporadic exit from "New Girl". The most likely version of events is that the producers of the show choose to duplicate the racial dynamic of the show without much regard to racial sensitivity, the logic of the storyline, or the intelligence of the viewer. They assume that we will satisfied with the arrival of "another black guy". This is an old approach to a common problem in what should be a more evolved, equality-minded, contemporary society.  While I appreciate the show's attempt at representing more than one ethnic group, they take a more vested interest fully developing all of their characters without prejudice. Even the title of "New Girl" implies a fresh approach to life and its complications, please use the remaining episodes of this season to do just that.