New Girl - Season 3

Jess and Nick were bound to break your heart.

It’s remarkable how little there is to “Dance,” and how much New Girl makes of that little. Though it shouldn’t be…

A TV show makes an episode like “Mars Landing” so it can then make an episode like “Big News.” That’s a fact of…

New Girl’s third season was always going to stand in the shadow of “Cooler.” It’s still possible that all of New…

“You can’t just ask for a promotion. Y’know—you have to earn the promotion with good work.”

Now that’s more like it.

It’s a damn good thing that New Girl hired Linda Cardellini to play Jess’ sister. The actress is superb work as the…

At the center of New Girl is the endless promise of renewal. It’s the most substantive part of the show’s original…

New Girl gets more out of the conflict between between brains and hormones than any other show on TV. (The possible…

“Prince” is an episode with an elevated degree of difficulty—the highest since New Girl’s beginning. It’s serving…

Prior to sitting down and writing this review, I re-watched “Cooler” for the first time since last spring. The way…

I’ve lived in the city of Chicago for nearly two-and-a-half years, and the only local sports team I can bring myself…

A decision is always a choice, but a choice isn’t necessarily a decision. It’s a question of intent; it also comes…

Of the holy trinity of TV holidays—Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas—Thanksgiving is the only one that New Girl…

Making a television series is a tug of war between tradition and evolution. An audience wants to see characters…

“Menus” is going to be a divisive one, because it’s an atypical episode of New Girl. For all its considerable…

New Girl and Happy Endings fought for the same shrinking piece of the viewership pie last season—but overlapping…

“This is the night when anyone can dress up in a costume and be anybody they want,” a half-drunk Jess Day tells Nick…

American television is coming to the end of a period during which “good person” and “good character” were mutually…

New Girl used to be terrible at sex talk. As a freshman sitcom, the show dug a huge hole for itself with “Naked,”…