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    Review: TV captures the power of pop music in 'High Fidelity,' 'Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist'

    by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Feb 03, 2020 4 minutes

    Two new television comedies use pop music - the way it colors our thoughts, guides our steps, expresses our longings, underscores our fears - as an organizing principle. Hulu's "High Fidelity" updates the Nick Hornby novel/John Cusack movie about a record shop owner's romantic misadventures, while NBC's "Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist" makes that principle literal: Its protagonist becomes a sort of helpless human radio receiving the song-expressed thoughts of friends, relations, colleagues and passersby. ("She hears the soundtrack of your life" is its log line.)

    "High Fidelity" premieres on Valentine's Day, appropriately. Developed by Veronica West and Sarah Kucserka, it's set in Brooklyn (after the book's London

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