Two new music-driven TV shows, 'Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist' and 'High Fidelity,' explore the ways that songs, popular and not, express our feelings and identities
” — NBC’s splashy new musical-comedy series in which the title character is exposed to the innermost thoughts of people around her in the form of well-known pop songs — Zoey’s neighbor Mo sings the Platters’ mid-1950s doo-wop classic “The Great Pretender.”
“Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist,” whose “Great Pretender” episode is set to air Sunday night, isn’t the only new TV series thinking through the ways that music lovers bend songs to the particulars of their lives. There’s also “,” Hulu’s 10-episode remake of the 2000 movie starring John Cusack , in which Zoë Kravitz plays a lovelorn record-shop owner with a carefully assembled mixtape to commemorate each of her many heartbreaks.
The way Winsberg sees it, his best bet for having a musical number succeed — in terms of developing plot or character — is to ensure that the audience already knows the song; that way viewers can focus on the interpretation or the dramatic context of the scene in which the song is being performed.
Why the change? As with basically everything else connected to music, the rise of digital streaming — with its blurring of once-distinct genres and eras — feels like a driver of how fandom is represented in these shows. Ease of access to the history of recorded music has demystified the expert’s special powers even as it’s encouraged casual listeners to listen with an expert’s curiosity; what’s more, now the only thing separating an obscure single from a global smash might be a few months’ time.
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