[Mr. Drake]

The Wrestling Wars and Netflix Vs Amazon series will return soon. But for now this is the Battle of the TV Female Leads! We'll be looking at some of the best and most infamous Female led TV shows and pitting their female heroine or anti-heroine actresses into a fight against one another! Today we're going to look at two shows that premiered and ended very close to one another. I'm hoping this will be a good match-up, I've personally never seen either of these ladies as very tough so hopefully that leads to it being a close contest! I'm very curious to see what the board thinks. This week it's New Girl's Zooey Deschanel Vs Orange is the New Black's Taylor Schilling! These battles take place with each fighter being the age and shape they were at the show's debut so we'll be looking back into the past for our references to how they were then! (We'll use their recent height and weight though because I have no idea how I'd find that for their debut season years).

Jessica Day (New Girl) - Zooey Deschanel
Show Premier Date: September 2011
Deschanel's Age Then: 31
Height: 5'6
Weight: 121 lbs


VS

Piper Chapman (Orange is the New Black) - Taylor Schilling
Show Premier Date: July 2013
Schilling's Age Then: 28
Height: 5'8
Weight: 121 lbs

[Mr. Drake]

And..... Well, it's a tie! This is the closest match-up we've had yet! This one was super close, especially in the catfight section! And it ended with each lady winning one category! This is the first time that's happened. So I'm just going to call it a tie overall. Gotta think of third category haha.
Taylor Schilling aka Piper Chapman won the catfight category ever so narrowly at 22 votes to 20, insanely close!
Zooey Deschanel aka Jessica Day won the hotness category a bit more handily, but still fairly close at 24 votes to 17!
Thanks for voting everyone! This was a tough one, I honestly didn't know who to vote for myself so I'm not shocked it was so close!

Then and Nows

Taylor Schilling Then (2013 - Age:28)

Taylor Schilling Now (2020 - Age:35)

Zooey Deschanel Then (2011 - Age:31)

Zooey Deschanel Now (2020 - Age:40)

(It's hard to find 2020 pictures, so I'm pretty sure both Schilling's and Deschanels are from 2019)